we promised you a viewer s guide. when we see you tomorrow, it will be for, in effect, postgame coverage of the state of the union address. the most striking visual for the home audience will be the new speaker, nancy pelosi. another big change in the chamber, most of the lawmakers sitting there are democrats. even though the senate is republican-controlled, the house chamber is vastly larger than the senate. and they get to host. symbolism will be visible on television. many of the women on the democratic side are expected to wear white for the suffrage and women s rights movement. while many of the men will wear white lapel ribbons. each member of congress is entitled to bring one guest, and
she had and put them to work, and those were her legal skills. 1963, she started at rutgers as a law professor. and really inspired by her students, she agreed to teach a course in this new subject of gender in law. that s also when she began dealing with sex discrimination cases, and that was her entree into becoming a litigator. the emergence of a women s rights movement had the possibility of playing the role in the 1970s that the black civil rights movement had played in the 1960s. and so i was particularly eager to create a special project dealing with women s rights. i got a call from the aclu asking me if i would consider running the women s rights project with professor ruth bader ginsburg, whom i had heard of but i did not know. i met ruth the first day i was there. she seemed very polite and quiet and reserved, not a firebrand. she wouldn t speak up a great deal during meetings. she always addressed whatever point there was. there wasn t any peripheral element of it
and i think that says it all. so what president obama and joe biden are doing are the closing arguments. the closing arguments of less than two weeks as to why people should go out. let s not forget we actually have data that shows us for the past year the enthusiasm has been there on the democratic party in off-year elections and also in special elections. so now we have to do it. it s all about the ground game. and i think president obama is the best person out there to make that argument. and he said in his speech, he s saying, look, we can t let history pass us by. we can t sit back, and we are a country of movements. whether it s the lgbtq movement, the civil rights movement, the women s rights movement, we have to take action. and i think that is indeed resonating. you see thousands of people lining up waiting to hear from him, and we ll see. but i really do think he is the best messenger and can really lay out the stark contrasts between him, the republicans and also donald trum
a poll that showed president obama had 63% in his popularity. he is the most popular living president that we have. there was a detroit resident that i read today online that said president obama still is president until he gets a new one. and i think that says it all. so what president obama and joe biden are doing are the closing arguments. the closing arguments of less than two weeks as to why people should go out. let s not forget we actually have data that shows us for the past year the enthusiasm has been there on the democratic party in off-year elections and also in special elections. so now we have to do it. it s all about the ground game. and i think president obama is the best person out there to make that argument. and he said in his speech. he s saying, look, we can t let history pass us by. we can t sit back, and we are a country of movements. whether it s the lgbtq movement, the civil rights movement, the womens rights movement, we have to take action.
biden are doing are the closing arguments. the closing arguments of less than two weeks as to why people should go out. let s not forget we actually have data that shows us for the past year the enthusiasm has been there on the democratic party in off-year elections and also in special elections. so now we have to do it. it s all about the ground game. and i think president obama is the best person out there to make that argument. and he said in his speech. he s saying, look, we can t let history pass us by. we can t sit back, and we are a country of movements. whether it s the lgbtq movement, the civil rights movement, the womens rights movement, we have to take action. and i think that is indeed resonating. you see thousands of people lining up waiting to hear from him, and we ll see. but i really do think he is the best messenger and can really lay out the stark contrasts between him, the republicans and also donald trump. well, john nickels, he s got a lot of stuff to work with,