when did opposition party response to SOTU become a thing?

[msongs]

they're always tedious. and now there's a whole parade of incidental responders. the speech ought to be a stand alone event IMO

[Ocelot II]

1. The opposing party has given a response since 1966.

They are only watched by members of that party and are quickly forgotten, but the person chosen to deliver it does it for the publicity. It seldom works.

[wnylib]

2. That wraps it up well.

[dhol82]

3. This one didn't get much.

Positivity.

[DemocraticPatriot]

7. I don't recall a response being broadcasted until at last 20 years later

but of course I may have been ill-informed before then...


Any such "response" would likely have not caught my attention, until Reagan was in office...



(Not arguing your information, and thank you for that)

[Ocelot II]

8. I don't know when they started broadcasting them.

I don't think I've ever watched one.

[PatSeg]

4. Most of the ones I've seen were pretty awful

They often don't even address what was said. For some reason, republicans tend to pick some of the worst people.

[StarryNite]

5. In their defense, they only have the worst people to pick from.

[PatSeg]

6. Ha, ha, ha!!!

Actually, that is true!

[DemocraticPatriot]

10. Arguably, their spokesperson should have been

the governor of Florida or Texas...


(but those persons might have been banned from the grounds, for 'national security' reasons...)

[UTUSN]

9. "parade of incidental responders" - yip, the splinters in our own party: Why? What next, MANCHIN?!1