Many Americans already assumed Mr. Obama supported same-sex marriage, Mr. Frank said, adding, "Politically, it's kind of a nonevent".
"I think it was already built in, so that it was somewhat of a nonevent," he said.
"It was a bit of a nonevent," said Schwab's chief investment strategist, Liz Ann Sonders, referring to the impact of the speech.
"I wonder if it's just so late to the party that it becomes kind of a nonevent," said Russ Crupnick, an analyst with the marketing research company NPD Group.
For Ahmad Shah Mirdad, head of monitoring at the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, the adoption of a new Constitution by the loya jirga this month was something of a nonevent.
For the building's 950 tenants and 20,000 workers, it is something of a nonevent, since the managers of the Empire State Building will remain the same.
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