i ll tell you what, after the week that obama had, the terrible week with the hot mic and the supreme court oral arguments and congress completely dismissing his budget, i think those numbers are going to go down. i just have a funny feeling. with mitt romney, as soon as he cleans up the nomination, which he s about to do and focuses on obama, numbers will go up. arthel: the numbers go up and down. you may have a point. we ll see. but marjorie, you ve got president bush, the father. you have governor bush, paul ryan, marco rubio, all endorsing governor romney. and you still see that half of the americans in terms of favor ability don t like the governor. i went to your web site and noticed one of the top stories is they re saying they re yearning for romney s personal side. is that what voters want to see, that perhaps will change their favor ability preponderance of goff romney? i think one of his biggest struggles is with trust and likeability. i think right now that s sort of wh
hit the reset button in the spring and summer of the year and people gave them a fresh look, his numbers ujumped that summer and fall. i went over number, seeing if there were patterns there, over the past year we ve seen mitt romney s favor ability, with his favorability numbers, the number of people who don t have an opinion has dropped 15%. the number of people with an unfavorable opinion of him has gone up by about 15%. is that inevitable, is that case that bill clinton was making inevitable as people get to know you a good proportion will get do know you because they don t like you? that is part of it but part of the problem for romney the basic unspoken proposition for republicans at the outset of the process was, the economy is in terrible shape, people want to blame obama, put somebody up a blank slate, because he s competent enough.
how do you peel about feel about the michigan win? we feel great, it was another case of voters taking a look at mitt romney and saying i guess. the stars may be lining up for mitt romney but as they do storm clouds are swirling for his party. oh, my, somebody numbers to unpack. mark, we were talking a bit about the new nbc poll that is out that show romney is climbing up there. he has a 38% and santorum at 32% and gingrich at 13% and paul at 13%, and yet, his numbers in favor ability is down. he has a net loss of 11 points the lowest at this point ever in polling history. as it goes on. it se it seem s as if america is liking him less and less, theism
rick perry who had such a rough ride through the gop race is even having trouble, a rough ride getting down from the horse. it s so rough, one wonders if he could beat barack obama to become governor of texas, which he already is. the dallas morning news reports that perry s favor ability at 40% in texas and the president at 43%. this might be a cautionary lesson for some of these republican candidates. goldie, cheryl, welcome. thanks for having us. goldie, poor rick perry. is this a cautionary tale. are the candidates that were failing not only failing in
bob beckel? good reason to feel down. before we start, you caller risk dash you called eric dashing? where did that come from? and dana is wearing a leather skirt, i want everyone to know that. did you dress her? all my favorite color, leather. all my goodness. i like that, too. actually. you try to say, what is the good news? there is not a lot but for the following: the republicans take a bigger hit on this not being the economy put together than obama by a long sheet. second, obama s favor ability is high, and the parallel to carter is misbegotten. and what is amazing someone who polls a lot, i don t think you will get away with this in an election but the fact that more people still believe that george