In general, the longer a president is in office, the lower the SOTU viewership.
There are ups and downs in Clinton's and Bush's numbers, but a steady decline in Obama's.
Posted on 01/22/2015 9:01:10 AM PST by xzins
And it’s the second-smallest State of the Union audience since Nielsen started collecting the data in 1993. Only Bill Clinton‘s 2000 speech drew a smaller television audience than Mr. Obama’s this year, with about 31.5 million views. In addition, a number of websites and media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, offered their own streams of the speech—increasing the total number of viewers well beyond the television audience.
But the lower audience share is part of a broader decline in interest in the speech.
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As a proud member of the non-watching demographic, I would like to voice my objection that we have to sit through a solid week of analysis of a staged dog and pony show that only 10% of the nation bothered to check out. It’s all totally phony and disingenuous from all sides.
I can go to my bathroom and flush the toilet.
Same sound.
Same amount of information.
But the contents of the toilet were much cleaner.
Behehehe... Hohohoho...
Happy I missed it.
Very good. I absolutely agree with you.
I can’t understand why anyone would sit through such ridiculous political theater. The media analysis before and afterwards is particularly grating. BTW I felt the same way when Bush and Clinton were giving these State of the Union speeches also.
Quite frankly it is surprising that anyone would want to watch a most notorious liar making a speech. To top it off he strolls into the chamber followed by the nation’s leading political hacks.......purely nauseating!
We tried watching but could only take a few minutes. We did see the entire Republican response. We met Sen. Joni Ernst at a USO event a few years ago. She and my wife really hit it off. She is a very genuine person and just as beautiful in real life as she is on television.
Perhaps as fewer people bother to watch, the SOTU will no longer be a media event.
Didn’t the President in the early days of the Republic just send a written report to Congress and that was it? Why can’t we go back to those days?
You nailed it. I haven't watched a SOTU in years. They are a waste of time. The only time I regretted missing it was when someone or other said "liar". But I could watch the clip. :>)
I think it was all the way until 1923 that it was just a written report sent over. I believe I read that just the other day. The constitution does not require a dog and pony gathering, a response, blah, blah.
And the very words themselves “state of the union” define what the president is to send to congress from time to time.
If you asked your banker the state of your account, and he gave you a shopping list of things he wanted you to borrow money on, brought in his wife, some salespeople, and a few homeless drunks from off the street, you’d move your money tomorrow.
All you asked for was the state of your account...what’s the balance and recent activity.
” only 10% of the nation bothered to check out.”
We could fill a lot of prisons with this crowd : )
In general, the longer a president is in office, the lower the SOTU viewership.
There are ups and downs in Clinton's and Bush's numbers, but a steady decline in Obama's.
I did not watch it and will not as long as there is a lying imposter giving it.
Okay, but the response she gave was horrible. First announcing that her speech would not be a response, then not having any specifics to discuss, and to top it off, we had to hear that stupid story about bread bags on her feet. That and elsewhere, all she did was try to inform people she grew up without a silver spoon in her mouth. So what. Who cares. What will the republican controlled House and Senate to in the near future?
The SOTU speeches are boring especially since most of the content is revealed in advance.
The one is certain he reached the people that didn’t watch.
They could not ever surprise me with “we want to raise your taxes.”
They don’t need to tell me ahead of time for me to know that.
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