Obama’s SOTU: Uniting the Country…through Pronouns?
Obama’s 2011 State of the Union incorporated the 2nd largest percentage of first-person plural pronouns since FDR
Obama’s 2011 State of the Union incorporated the 2nd largest percentage of first-person plural pronouns since FDR
President’s 2011 SOTU speech was written at more than a half a grade level lower than 2010’s score, which was the 4th lowest in 75+ years
Each of the personal anecdotes relayed by Obama in his 2011 Address featured individuals living in battleground states won by the President in 2008
Obama’s statements on education and technology rose compared to his 2010 Address, while statements on the economy and health care declined
Only 11 U.S. Senators have been elected to two interrupted full terms over the last 100 years, and just 5 did so after losing a reelection bid in between
Over the last 100 years Ohio, New York, and Missouri have given birth to the most Senators, while Ohio, Vermont and Mississippi boast the largest percentage of home-born Senators
Badger State has voted for same party of U.S. Senate and Presidential nominees in 14 of 16 election cycles over the last century
Connecticut has never voted for a Republican U.S. Senator and a Democratic presidential nominee in the same cycle
GOP won nine Senate seats in the region last November for the first time since 1920
However, decade-by-decade rate of growth of number of blacks in the U.S. House has stalled to its lowest level since the 1920s