Thursday, January 26, 2012

SOTU Viewers Down 12%

This year roughly 10% of Americans watched the State of the Union speech on TV, a total of 37.75 million viewers. Last year 42.79 million watched this president deliver the 2011 SOTU. That is a decline of 12% and down 21% from the 48 million who watched him in 2010. Source article is from Deadline/Hollywood.

What do you conclude about the popularity of listening to Barack Obama? What do you suppose it means for his chances of reelection? I wish we had the same data for the last several presidents to see if this is the normal pattern.