santorum 50 to 38. gingrich 51 foe 38. scott, let s start with you since you run your own polling shop. is this just the result of the infighting in the republics? a little bit of the good news on the economy? or is this a lasting move for obama up in the polls, approval rating is going to stay there? it s not the republic infighting. in fact, our numbers do show some similar trends fox polls. we show mitt romney down by 10 right now. over the last couple nights, rick santorum doing better. is he only down by 4. the reason president obama is doing well is because people are feeling better about the economy. right now, 36% say their own finances are in good shape. that s not a great number. but it s up 9 points since last summer. and not coincidentally his job approval rating is also up 9 points to 51% in the rasmussen poll. what we are see something people feeling better about the he economy. feeling better about president obama.
policy. in terms of politics, rick perry going up. michele bachmann showing momentum. this is the christian conservative vote gingrich needs to get. perry, debates, so perry s doing better. he needs to sort of cut back on that. the irony, yes, exactly. if you want to court iowa, perhaps you should go to iowa. but that s reason and reason and gingrich sometimes are not the ultimate cop out. item an unconventional candidate. up next, martin bashir and dylan ratigan.
attempt, congresswoman gabrielle giffords i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. first, an apparent shake-up in the republican race for the white house after a turbulent week that saw herman cain finding new allegations of sexual harassment and rick perry stumbling sadly in a debate. newt gingrich leaping towards the top of a pack in a stunni stunningcome back. jim acosta is watching the race for us as he always does. where do things stand right now? some candidates are stepping in it, newt gingrich is stepping it up. what s old is newt. he s back. it is a wide open race. consider campaign road kill over the summer, newt gingrich is peaking at just the right time. he is leaping ahead of herman cain in a new poll and falling within the margin of error for the lead in another poll from cbs. the former house speaker may be scoffing at his numbers. all of this effort to create a two-man race when it was perry and romney. reporter: he already has a new racer l
annual health action conference in d.c. former south african president nelson mandela doing better, released from the hospital after being treated for a respiratory infection. mandela is 92 years old. and nasa is marking the 25th anniversary of the space shuttle challenger explosion. all seven crew members as you may remember were killed wht shuttle broke apart 73 seconds after liftoff from cape canaver canaveral. nasa officials gathered at kennedy space center for that service. challenger commander dix coby s widow, june is among the speakers. as we told you, in egypt anger is boiling over and the violence continues to erupt and the world is watching. major city of a u.s. ally resembling a war zone. we re talking about cairo, alexandria, where our reporters have been joining us live. then the government, apparently,
them all, gm has struggled but they ve come back strong. the interesting one, the one i m impressed with is ford. didn t take a government bailout. al mull lally is the genius. number-one-selling car the f series pickup and the super duty truck. ford is up huge in sales because they ve put their minds to it. i think it s the product. it s got to be the product because that s what the consumers are driving. yeah, and so, lauren, i guess this is never going to set it will debate, right, whether or not the bailout helped or hurt because gm and chrysler doing better, you have gm doing gangbusters and ford, which didn t take the bailout money, also doing well. what s your take on it? i was against the bailout. i wasn t totally against the bailout because i think when you re talking about the u.s. economy and how we do things, consumers will buy things as they need things. if the economy is done, nothing was being sold, and as the