Oh good, President Obama plans more campaign-style events in swing states:

White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton says Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will visit Tampa, Fla., on Thursday. Presidents typically head out of Washington after the annual speech to reinforce their message with voters. Obama is in another swing state – Ohio – on Friday, talking up his administration’s efforts to pull the economy out of recession and restore jobs.

Because the last town-hall event in Ohio went so well.

Also note, “Burton said Obama is still working on the State of the Union speech, which can be expected to draw a big TV audience.”

Will it? Mort Zuckerman recently noted, “The fact is he had 49.5 million listeners to first speech on the economy. On Medicare, he had 24 million. He’s lost his audience.”

President Obama’s Afghanistan speech at West Point was watched by 40.8 million television viewers, which is a nice healthy number. Of course, that speech had actual news in it.

UPDATE: A reader asks, “swing states like Florida and Ohio? I thought Massachusetts was the new swing state.”