The 2015 State of the Union was not President Barack Obama's longest. It ran 59 minutes and 57 seconds (even though Medium says it should take 28 minutes to read). The written speech was 6,493 words (not including that campaign snap toward the end).
But another notable SOTU metric: the frequent applause.
This year, we took a tally. Not including Obama's walk up to the podium, nor the applause concluding his speech, people in the House chamber interrupted the president's speech with clapping a total of 80 times.
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We didn't count smaller bursts that the president talked through, but rather, large bursts that lasted several seconds and/or caused him pause.
Now, anyone count how many times Speaker John Boehner frowned?