It’s time for my now annual reminder that no one should expect the State of the Union speech to bolster the president’s approval ratings. The SOTU bounce is largely a fiction.
Attention will be properly lavished on the speech. It will articulate the administration’s goals, prioritize its efforts, give marching orders to agencies, help set the congressional agenda and coin phrases Democrats will repeat for months.
However, it’s unlikely to affect the president’s approval rating. CONT.
Mark Mellman (Mellman Group), The Hill