look at the numbers from the new nbc wall street journal poll released tonight. in terms of when the polling was done, these don't take in account the state of the union address. over the course of the last month not including the state of the union, percent age of people who think the country is on the right track has gone up by eight points. percent age of people who approve of president obama's handling of the economy has gone up by six points. percentage of people who think the nation's economy will get better over the next year, that is up seven points over the last month. the white house in planning a reelection strategy for president obama obvious hi hoped the economy would be getting better by now, which it is. they probably could not have anticipated at this point people would be feeling more optimistic and feeling like things in the economy overall were getting better. but the thing they truly could never have dreamed of the country where the economy was getting better, the president was seen at a side of the middle class, people are angry about the system being rigged against them, what the white house and reelection campaign could not