sophie, i wonder, is it just scandal in the media or is it actuality? yeah, i mean i think there are good reasons out there to distrust certain institutions shall we say. i also want to bring up another point which is particularly when it comes to government, trust can be a partisan issue. if you look at trust in the executive branch right now, i think the most recent numbers from gallup show that about 43% of americans have some or a lot of confidence in the executive branch. when you break that out, democrats, about 80% of democrats are expressing confidence because there s a democrat in the white house and about 30% of republicans are not. when you look back to this point in president bush s tenure, those numbers were flipped with 80% of republicans expressing confidence and about 20% of
the latest numbers from gallup show president obama has been regaining some ground on mitt romney, who s continuing to bask in the post debate afterglow. three days of polling after the debate, take a look, romney polling even with the president, erasing a five-point deficit. but then friday s strong jobs report could turn that around. i m joined now by gallup poll editor in chief frank newport. frank, good to see you. good morning. good morning! okay, so, let me know what you think. how s the race shaping up? how much have we seen? how much have you been able to poll up to this point? boy, we re studying the numbers. in fact, we re just looking at the numbers from last night, which we re adding to our rolling average which we will report out at 1:00 today at gallup.com. our view of the race is that romney definitely got a significant boost on thursday and friday of last week. and by the way, that s probably what was picked up for the most part in that pew poll that was discussed