and, of course, both bush and dole lost those elections. joining me now, cal penn, national campaign co-chair for obama for america and star of herald and kumar movies and the television show how i met your mother and nbc contributor joy reid star of the last word. the rule of this show is the person with the fewest credits gets to go first. so on these polling i m work on it. on the favorability number, if that holds, that s all you need to know. that s all you need to know. because until you said the word felony, i was going to say the only thing worse than being an unpopular candidate going into election where all the negatives about you are reinforced by almost everything you do, right? you re a one percenter who wants to cut the one percenters
you know, when the next week is an historic statement by the president in support of same sex marriage, it goes so fast for the voter to process even. it does. so given all those things, all the viewers out there. i would say our nbc wall street journal poll is always referred to as the gold standard. incredibly stable. a lot of good information out there. and so it gives a very, very good barometer. one thing that is important. there are so many polls out there. and you don t really try to interpret what s going on but i will say, there has been a lot of instability out there given all different events right before we head into the summer. absolutely. and i don t want to put you in a situation where we re comparing or contrasting at all but the new york times poll showed mitt romney ahead but the president having large favorability number. it is not to compare but it is to your point of being able to process this information. especially when vaebs move so quickly. politics i
the 16th president has been surpassed in favor of ability. drew brees, the quarterback of the new orleans saints, scored the highest favorability number ever recorded by the polling firm, 94% and lincoln was the holder by 91%. lincoln s 91% was in a national poll while brees 94% was just in louisiana. we ll be right back.
gingrich about either matter. tiffany s denials are at a perfect time for gingrich. his poll numbers have been dropping since he threw his hat into the ring. his favorability number with gop voters has dropped 14 points in one month from 52% in april to 38% today. in another bad sign for the former speaker he comes in fourth place in the most recent gallup poll of 2012 gop contendors. gingrich comes in at 9% just 1% higher than forme godfather s pizza ceo herman cain. her bus is ready to roll into a media market near you. sarah palin taking the show on the road. we tell you all about it next.
perfect time for gingrich. his poll numbers have been dropping since he threw his hat into the ring. his favorability number with gop voters has dropped 14 points in one month from 52% in april to 38% today. in another bad sign for the former speaker he comes in fourth place in the most recent gallup poll of 2012 gop contendors. gingrich comes in at 9% just 1% higher than forme godfather s pizza ceo herman cain. her bus is ready to roll into a media market near you. sarah palin taking the show on the road. we tell you all about it next. [ female announcer ] this is not a prescription.