Obama's 6th State of the Union speech gets better response than last year

According to a CNN/ORC instant poll, United States President Barack Obama's sixth turn at the State of the Union podium has received a more positive response from the audience as compared to last year's speech.

Among all the viewers present at the speech, 51% of them reported a positive response while last year it was 44%. The poll only reports the perspectives of people who watched the speech yesterday.

The sample of viewers at the speech in this poll was 39% Democratic and 20% Republican. Nearly 72% of those who watched the speech said that Obama's policy proposals would move the country in the right direction.