[edwinland]

Media worked overtime to explain Obama’s low ratings but they are quite happy to report that Obama’s first SOTU (eight years ago) has 48 million viewers (on TV) vs Trump’s 45.6 (on TV). But studies suggest that young people have abandoned TV for streaming in the past five years. Not a lot of reporters are bothering to Note that if only 5% of Americans switched from TV to streaming over the last eight years, Trump’s ratings beat Obama’s. And the reality is that for young people the switch was probably closer to 50% over that time. If that’s the case then maybe his SOTU was indeed the most watched in history.

[fhayek]

I wouldn’t watch an Obama speech if you strapped me in chair like Alex DeLarge.

[kearnyirish2]

The truth was that while enough dopes (apparently) still “believed” in 2012, the fact is that by the time Obama gave his last SOTU it couldn’t be hidden - he was a terrible failure as president.

As evidence, I present the election of Donald Trump in 2016.