to a lot of democrats, Obama saying he’d been to 57 states was a little thing. To the right, it was so big that it’s still used today against Obama.
I am very detail oriented and my job entails a lot of public speaking in front of crowds. Thinking that the US has 57 states can be a misstatement or it can be stupidity. To me it is of marginal importance except that Barack Obama was supposed to be the world’s smartest man, who never released any of his grades, and Hillary Clinton, who flunked the DC bar exam, the world’s smartest woman. But it is of more importance than remembering nearly two decades later just how many days the stock market did or did not close after 9/11. Sounds like inside baseball for the 25,000 or so who worked on Wall Street then and not very relevant to the 320 million of the rest of us.