This year’s State of the Union was Obama’s lowest-rated yet

White House officials sought to make the speech “go viral” by promoting policy proposal “spoilers” days ahead of time; by having Obama encourage tune-in through YouTube, Facebook and Twitter; and by publishing the text of the speech on Medium in the minutes before it was read aloud.

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