Line of the Day, SOTU Edition
Steven L. Taylor
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Monday, January 24, 2011
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“Every President, regardless of party, tries to stroke every erogenous zone in the electorate, and it becomes a political pep rally”–George Will on This Week.
About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored
A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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I think that conservatives are pretty scared about the fact that Obama is doing so well in the eyes of the public, that he has emerged as the only mature leader in Washington, and that the average folks out there will be listening to the speech with interest.
I expect that the speech will be well received, and that Obama’s approvals will rise even more. I suspect Will expects the same, hence his preemptive diss.