6 years of Obama's State of the Union speeches, revisited

Many things have changed since the president's first State of the Union in January 2010, but many of the issues that animated that first address, such as the battle over health care and the state of the economy, remain just as relevant today. Here is a look at the most frequently-mentioned topics covered by Obama, and how the focus of the speech has shifted over time.

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The "winners" have all been Turkeys, no matter the honor's name.

In this photo taken Monday, March 6, 2017, in San Francisco, released confidential files by The University of California of a sexual misconduct case, like this one against UC Santa Cruz Latin Studies professor Hector Perla is shown. Perla was accused of raping a student during a wine-tasting outing in June 2015. Some of the files are so heavily redacted that on many pages no words are visible. Perla is one of 113 UC employees found to have violated the system's sexual misconduct policies in rece