State of the Union

Words to Action

How does the State of the Union translate to legislative priorities? Check out our analysis of topics discussed in every State of the Union since 1989, as compared to legislation introduced in Congress during the same year.

Presidential Debates

Our AI has studied every State of the Union address. It can take the position of any president and debate any other president, infinitely. All the fun of election season without the stress!

Stylized Simpsons cartoon headshots of Presidents Clinton and Nixon debating each other.

SOTU Transcripts

254 State of the Union speeches. 2,079,303 words. 66 hours, 31 min of audio and video since FDR. If you think there's nothing to stream, you're painfully wrong. Get your FDR on.

Screenshot of video stream and transcript text for State of the Union from Richard Nixon.

Partisan Rhetoric at 140-year High

We measured how presidents in every State of the Union spoke about political opposition since 1880. The partisan language has never been stronger.

Partisanship Index of the State of the Union addresses from 1880 to Present.

Everyone's a Critic

Since our AI has been trained to think like presidents, it can't help but critique the other presidents. Have any president give a rebuttal to the State of the Union delivered by any other president in history.

President Biden stylized as a cartoon robot. Source: MidJourney.

AI SOTU 2023 Prediction

We fed our AI Joe Biden's speeches for the last six months and asked it to generate its best guess as to his 2023 State of the Union.

State of the Union 2023

February 7, 2023 at 9:00 PM ET

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Data Modeling and Development:
Bill Frischling, Fallon Farmer, Andy Chakraborty, Daniel Argyle, Markham Evans