third to last weekend before the midterms. with 1 d a poll has senator bob menendez leading the republican in new jersey among likely voters. menendez has a personal favorability rating of only 18%. on the tennessee senate race side where a poll of registered voters conducted for vanderbilt university has the democrat with a one point lead over the republican 44-43%.
people over the age of 50 will be 4 out of every 10 voters in the battleground states. they are anxious to hear about these issues. we release d a poll last week that showed that medicare and social security are increasingly important issues, not just to current seniors, but especially to those still in the workforce between the ages of 50 to 64. they have a lot of economic anxiety and know these issues will be important to them down the line. nancy, thank you for your time. i want to bring back jackie wells major gerrit. jackie, i want to go back to something mitt romney said this morning. my campaign made it clear. the president s cuts of $716 billion to medicare, those cuts are going to be restored if i become president and paul ryan becomes vice president. jackie, put that together along with what we were hearing
going to be who oppose cutting them. that s pretty basic political math, and with the president engaged in increasingly bitter fight about reforms, entitlements to medicare, medicaid, the larger number of people who obtain these benefits, these are all people who are going to hear the democrats very clearly when they say republicans are threatening the way that you operate, so that s something that happens republicans have to bear in mind as we go into this debate. shannon: what s interesting a. poll out from rasmussen reports says that 61 percent of people prefer a government with fewer services and lower taxes versus one that has higher tax and more services. stu, do you think that s going to play out in reality? no, because remember, there s a tipping point here. about half the people who work in america, half the households, actually, pay any federal income tax at all. in other words, half don t pay anything. there s a tipping point there. why shouldn t the people who pay no fe