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Obama's SOTU: Clintonian, In a Good Way
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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Edited | Monsieur Jan 28, 2010 10:45am |
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| Category | Analysis |
| Author | Nate Silver |
| News Date | Thursday, January 28, 2010 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Perhaps it is the low expectations established by what has been an exceedingly rough couple of weeks for Democrats, but I was pleasantly surprised by Barack Obama's State of the Union Address last night, which managed at once to recall why the majority of the electorate voted for him while at the same time demonstrating an awareness of the difficult situation in which the President now finds himself.
Nevertheless, subjective evaluations of Presidential speeches are notoriously useless. So let's instead attempt something a bit more rigorous, which is a word frequency analysis of the terms that President Obama used last night. What did President Obama focus his attention upon and how does this compare to his predecessors?
To investigate, we'll compare the President's speech to the State of the Union addresses delivered by each president since John F. Kennedy in 1962 in advance of their respective midterm elections. We'll also look at the address that Obama delivered -- not technically a State of the Union -- to the Congress in February, 2009.
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