accomplish that. and it gave him a five-point bounce. that s expected. historically at the convention, that s what you get. the home court advantage is traditionally about a five-point bounce. you want to see that. you remember sarah palin and mccain, it is funny we lead with her, coming out of 2008. it was this big bounce that you didn t think you would see an end to until you saw the collapse of lehman, until you saw the financial crisis. the republicans never recovered. it was good for the purposes of energizing the base but this is a referendum on obama regardless of what party you were in. i want to play with that idea for a bit was a we saw not only the bounce but also there seems to be an impact in sort of voter choice, which we didn t see coming out of tampa. if we look at the gallup pole and the reuters numbers coming out on friday, we see this position where, in fact, part of what s happened here is 48% to 45% in terms of not just likability or job approval by actually
we adjusted and this, too, shall pass. mandates that run counter to public perceptions are risky, but makes for a weak leader. sometimes, government must pull us into the future even as a large swath kicks against it. the leader who s playing a long game knows that time heals all wounds. because the public mind is spongeable. the public is maneuvered one way by misinformation and then back the other way by things like the supreme court. why, i can hear it now coming over the hills. a change in the national mood. a poll released sunday showed support for the health care law rising among registered voters where voters were polling 57% against it, now, they re 52% against and 48% for and of course, many of those lumped into the against pile like the law and believe it doesn t go far enough. a new gallup pole finds 46% in
they are all young people, of course, the demographics of the middle east, it tilts to the youth. what s going on? what s going on, this was in a stellar pole, a gallup pole. they all want democracy but they don t know exactly what democracy it. fareed talks about this going back to revolutions. they don t always know what they want. in a second story, he says what they want is accountability. they want to be able to toss the bums out, have elections and be able to say you re not doing the job for us. that s how they see democracy. very interesting, too. we comment about how you don t see american flags burning. people love to come on and write op-eds saying you americans, you think everything is about you but it s not. this is not about america to which i say, that s great news! because it s always been about america. they ve always been burning our flags. egypt s press was anti-american.
it pays to get more. it pays to discover. we have a new crop of poll numbers on an all personality generic valid question. that s the one that asks whether you vote for a republican or a democrat in this year s congressional election. a new time poll has the democrats up by one. that s the same margin as the newest gallup pole. but the washington post poll has the republicans up four. and the new bloomberg poll has the republicans up eight. these are numbers that will make the republicans very confident heading into november. we ll be right back.
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