State of the Union Address

Tuesday's State of the Union Address is so totally recommended viewing for political science students. The poll numbers are down for the president (here is a summary) *and* it's an election year, so the president will want to get control of the debate, decide which issues will be debated until November, and frame them in a way that is useful for the Republicans (which means lots of national security and War-on-Terror arguments). This is basically the start of the 2006 campaign (OK, that's a silly thing to say if we already have a permanent campaign).