"But as for the State of the Union tradition of unveiling big announcements for a year-ahead agenda, Obama’s done with that. The country’s been done with that for a while, aides say, and the White House has finally caught up.
They believe they’ve now redefined the State of the Union model, not just for this year and next but for the next couple of presidents at least.
Most of what’s in the speech they’ll have already announced as part of Obama’s two-week lead-up tour. White House aides say that may be it — they’re not interested in making big legislative asks for the GOP to reflexively shoot down, nothing on par with last month’s surprise restoration of diplomatic relations with Cuba.
After all, they know they can count on the president getting that block of prime time and occupying the front pages of the newspapers next Tuesday and Wednesday pretty much no matter what they do.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/barack-obama-state-of-the-union-2015-114270.html?hp=t3_r
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