wrong track, presidential approval at 46, it ticked up for trump a little bit, maybe the reason why republicans survived in that midterm in places like georgia and florida, congressional preference d plus 7 and it led to those house seats. i give you all that background so that you can see where things stand now, our most recent nbc wall street journal excuse me, the nbc news poll at the end of last year, i will show you where things were. so on direction of the country 70% wrong track, that s big time shellacking territory. you look at the presidential job rating as of our last poll here, his approval sitting at 42, again, that would put democrats in shellacking territory. let s take you to the generic ballot, here the democrats plus two, that puts you somewhere in no man s land, a lot of strategists will tell you democrats have a anything 3 points or less for democrats probably means republicans pick up seats so they need to be in that 5, 6, 7 point advantage for them to be in th