“With the voting for his successor getting underway in less than a month, President Obama is moving up his State of the Union address a couple of weeks in hopes of laying out his closing agenda while the country is still paying attention. And in the process, he hopes to defy expectations,” the New York Times reports.
Obama Hopes to Keep Spotlight in Final Year
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