Adding a README with an overview and some info on the suggested extensions
Adding a gitignore file so that when you have sotu.mp4 you don't accidentally add an enormous file to your repository
Initializing stateAbbreviations earlier to prevent access before initialization
Fixing an off-by-one error in transcript choice which shows up when you scroll the end
Removing superfluous stateAbbreviations initialization
Fixing offsetTop error in transcript scrolling

Because the `offsetParent`
(https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLElement.offsetPare
nt) of the transcript the `body` tag, `offsetTop` calculations were off
by 332 (Robbie noticed that scrolling to the beginning of the timeline
did _not_ scroll to the beginning of the speech), so we had to make the
article relatively positioned so that it’s `offsetParent` was
`article#sotu-transcript` and not `body`.
Merge branch 'master' of github.com:DGMD-E-15/Project-2

Conflicts:
	.gitignore
	README.mdown
merging with DGMDP2