look, in the cnn poll revealing. if you look at it the president s approval on the economy, 42/57. he s upside down. in march of 09 it was 59/40. on foreign affairs it s 44/54. march 09 it was 66/28. handling the budget deficit, 34/64. we have one-third of the people. terrorism where he still has a positive number 52/45 down from 61/35 when he came into office. this is not good numbers. here s the most damaging one. this is really troubling if you re in the west wing of the white house tonight. honest and trustworthy. 49/50, the president is now upside down on being seen as honest and trustworthy. by example, just after he got sworn in he was 74/23.
with a local location based deal, if you know four square and how that works that was back in november. now you can join with your friends to get local discounts together. now the new page if you go there to facebook.com/deals says coming soon, deals are about to get bet we are fans. atlanta, austin, dallas, san diego and san francisco, you get to check it out and i m a little bit jealous. gap has joined in the deal-making via facebook, the little sprinkle of ebay, they began a promo of gap my price.com. name your price for a pair of khakis. they retail for $49.50. the offers are between $35 and $45. yesterday we got $45, so we saved a little bit of money. we saved on shipping. deal space here it s all getting more creative, just going to ramp up and i think it s good for us. i think it s good for us and must be driving retailers crazy. drives them a little nuts.
night two weeks ago. we had no socks no shoes on or anything. i went up to him i was like where are your shoes. he said it s okay officer i have never had a pair of shoes but god bless you thank you for doing what you are doing. it had taken me back. deprimo went into a nearby sketchers store and he used his own money to buy the homeless man to give him a pair of boots. knelt down put the socks, boots on him. you want to grab a cup of coffee maybe get something to eat. he said no, listen you have done enough. he said god bless you and be safe. the store manager was so moved officer deprimo s newhart he gave the officer his employee discount to help him out. so the # $99 boots fos 49.50. it was inspiring. the other man ger that was here well.
lot that has to happen, lowering the employment dramatically. here s the context, a job approval rate of 39% is very, very bad. in order for an incumbent to have a good chance to win reelection they ve got to be at least 49/50%. within the gallup poll is the president s job approval on the economy only 26% approve of that within that 23% of independents, the economy clearly one of the most important issues going into 2012. all we ve gotten from the obama administration so far is that food stamps and unemployment checks seem to be good for the stimulus. that ain t gonna cut it in terms of their plan for the economy. shannon: marriage let s touch on that poll. 26% approve of how the president is doing, which turns out to be the number one issue that potential 2012 voters care about. 71% disapprove. he s down 11 points on this