Washington ( CNN ) -- President Barack Obama firmly laid out his plan Thursday to `` degrade and ultimately destroy '' ISIS , the terrorist organization that now controls large swaths of Iraq and Syria . But what did the American public think of the speech ? CNN 's Tom Foreman broke down the results of Microsoft 's `` Bing Pulse , '' where viewers reacted online in real time to the President 's address . Overall , Americans gave the President 's speech high marks , but party lines bled through as Democrats had a consistently more favorable perception throughout the speech . And independents stuck closely to Republicans during the 15-minute address . But all viewers rallied around one point in the speech : . `` ISIL is a terrorist organization -- pure and simple -- and it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way . In a region that has known so much bloodshed , these terrorists are unique in their brutality , '' Obama said . And the lowest point in the President 's speech came when he announced he was deploying an additional 475 U.S. military advisers to Iraq . It seems the President 's assurances that U.S. forces will not `` have a combat mission '' and the U.S. would not get `` dragged into another combat war in Iraq '' did n't make the troop buildup any more palatable . .
Overall , Americans gave President Obama 's speech high marks , but party lines did show . Top point : He said ISIS had `` no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way '' Lowest moment : When Obama announced he was deploying an additional 475 military advisers .