year, now down to 42% or 43%, that's not good. but what's worse is there is a kind of a yawn about this state of the union. it is like a, oh, gosh, let's channel surf it off. we've heard what president obama has to say. in many ways he is a very overexposed president because of all the new media. how do you get people excited about the message you are trying to sell? last year he had to chances. this year it is the state of the union, then it is politics as usual in washington so he has to get some momentum out of this speech. i would go with the minimum wage. >> we expect the president to talk more about income inequality tuesday night an moving forward in the next coming weeks and months. douglas brinkley from rice university, thank you. >> thank you, as always. cnn will bring you president obama's state of the union address live. so tune in tuesday at 7:00 p.m. eastern. full commentary, analysis and of course the president's speech