{"id":2249,"date":"2010-01-28T01:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T06:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=2249"},"modified":"2010-01-28T01:17:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T06:17:00","slug":"a-few-things-about-the-sotu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2010\/01\/28\/a-few-things-about-the-sotu\/","title":{"rendered":"A few things about the SOTU"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know you’re a political science geek when you DVR the State of the Union speech…and then you’re pissed off because the recording cut off the Republican rebuttal!<\/p>\n

Good SOTU as far as these things go.\u00a0 The pins are set up for a president to knock them down.\u00a0 As I was watching, I kept coming back to a Gallup poll one of my students sent me that showed Obama had the largest gap in public support between the parties.\u00a0 While 88% of Democrats support him, only 23% of Republicans do the same.<\/p>\n

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Can any appeal to compromise, however eloquent and soaring, overcome such a polarized political climate? This video of the D.C. tea party protests over the summer reminds me of how daunting Obama’s task remains. <\/p>\n\"YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n

The president is appealing to a “fair-minded” middle that complains they are fed up with politics. I wonder how much of this is genuine frustration and how much of this is a convenient trope for not getting involved in politics. It’s an easy conversations starter to refer to Washington as a “a den of thieves” or “a bunch of crooks.” At the end of the day, I wonder how much appeals to political temperance is going to benefit him. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know you’re a political science geek when you DVR the State of the Union speech…and then you’re pissed off because the recording cut off the Republican rebuttal! Good SOTU as far as these things go.\u00a0 The pins are set up for a president to knock them down.\u00a0 As I was watching, I kept coming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2250,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions\/2250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}