U. S. News did their homework and found that most of the SOTU speech was "borrowed" from a number of other people.  As the article states:  "If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, what can be said of plagiarism? President Obama’s second SOTU contained enough recycled ideas and lines lifted from speeches of others to make historians wince".   Very well put together article with links to polls or other related information.

I found this to be a good read; the link to the article is:   

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/alvin-felzenberg/2011/01/26/oba...