Jan 28 2010
SOTU (With graphs!)
Nate Silver takes an interesting look:
“Obama also used the term “business” or “businesses” unusually often during last night’s speech. In about half of these cases, “business” was prefaced by the term “small” as in “small businesses” — the term “small business” almost always polls well in focus groups.
Obama also used the term “tax” or “taxes” as often as any president since Reagan in 1982, mostly to point out (as I’ve argued was long overdue) that the stimulus package contained an enormous volume of tax cuts. Another obsession of the White House speechwriting department is the use of the terms “investing” and “investment”, which Obama used very heavily last night as well as in his 2009 address.”
Focusing on tax cuts and small business. What a tax and spend radical…
What he didn’t focus on too much was health care. What do we think? Is that campaign promise not going to come true? He told Democrats to screw their courage to the sticking place, will he push the house to pass the Senate version?
