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Obama and the 'State of the Economy'

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The State of the Union gives President Obama a chance to use a grand setting and a prime time audience in order to cement his recent successes with stirring words. But choreography and staging apart what do Americans, watching at home, actually want to hear tonight?

The BBC's Washington correspondent Katty Kay has gone to Maryland to find out.

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