Tuesday’s State of the Union Address from President Barack Obama followed the usual pattern for the speech, a laundry list of proposals on everything from income inequality to immigration reform to Afghanistan–but with a twist.
With a divided Congress listening and unlikely to move on many of those items, Mr. Obama acknowledged his limitations and emphasized what he could do on his own. For many analysts it was evidence of a diminished presidency in a highly partisan Washington.
This week’s Wall Street Journal/NBC poll, however, shows the divisions on what should be the 2014 agenda extend far beyond the walls of Congress to the population at large. CONT.
Dante Chinni, Wall Street Journal