primary. but when it comes to general elections, this general midterm election, it turns on the party in power. it s a referendum on obama, his administration and democrats in power. so even though republican numbers really, i mean, the favorability number, your right. that s one of the lowest number we ve ever scored. it s not going to make that much difference to voters because they are voting for an alternative. and, peter, going with what neil said. on the economy, the president is really hurting in our poll. it s interesting because the approval rating ticked up for him by a couple of points. look at the economy. 52% say they disapprove of how he s handled it. it s the highest of the presidency and other results from our poll show people are more pessimistic about the economy turning around. and why shouldn t they be? you look and they are hurting. there aren t jobs there. sometimes we get so caught up in the minutia. twl there 24 things that came out of this poll that are impor
the latest nbc wall street journal poll shows w with a wloping 29% favorability number, a mere 50% of americans think that he was a miserable failure. last week s wroo bloomberg people show the american people still blame bush more than president obama for the war in afghanistan, the deficit and unemployment. senator, i know better. but there is really a reason why i was the first person in the electronic media in this country to call george w. bush the worst president ever back in 2003. do you think americans are really nostalgic for this guy? senator, come on. for you to believe that america wants 43 right on back and we re going to remember him with great memories, that s texas-sized psycho talk. coming up, michele bachmann s leading the tea party straight towards what they hate. big government. plus, the tea party has found a
political relationship, they always advertise them. yeah, it always tends to work. i know in the republican side we have this conversation and then we go with the one that everyone expected to get the nomination. i think, you know, i ve off said republicans this cycle are acting like democrats and democrats are acting like republicans. 2k democrats have anointed their candidate and the republicans have no clue as to what s happen sglgs j . jared, what we re seeing in the internals of the democratic polls is a favorability number that tends to, in effect, favor joe biden. meaning he has a more positive number on favorability versus unfavorability. hillary clinton s unfavorability number is higher than her fave in ibility number. right, she s uh-uh der water there. it s easy to be favorable when you re not in the campaign. the only question for the vice president is are you in or are you out right now.
a lot of them. why are they afraid? i think part of the problem here is that he is taking energy away from candidates that could be legitimate and making a policy point. you know you look at folks like rick perry or bobby jind and will bobby jindal and they will be hurt. i don t think he represents main stream republican values but obviously does speak to something and so at this point in the campaign you have to grin and bare it. i don t think he s going to be a factor come october november. i don t think he ll be a factor in new hampshire or iowa. the numbers we ll get to later in the show line but show him doubling favorability number and going up from 20% to 56% among tea party people but not only tea party people. trump is driving the party mad we can agree. presidential candidate lindsey graham says trump is a wrecking ball for the party. there are some candidates that agree with donald trump that want to make him their vice president, there are some people who love don
joining me now, national campaign co-chair for obam for america and star of herald and kumar movies and star of how i met your mother. and 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. 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 1% s taxes. the only thing worse than that, expect the felony piece is vowing to raise 95% of tvoters taxes. this is the death nel of any candidate, right? going into the election, democrats are terrified to look like tax raisers.