the republican candidate. [captioning made possible by nbc universal] chris: welcome to the show. with us today, our panel. first up, it was a week when you didn t need polls to show you that barack obama s way down by a serious loss of confidence after that downgrade of the u.s. with markets crashing. the president, no impact on traders or investors when he tried to project strength with the force of his words. the polls out this week have his approval numbers in the low 40 s and that drop in confidence comes at the moment when the republican race is finally under way. their nomination is truly worth having. howard, the president had a terrible week with what we called a bungee-jumping congress, it s a great time for republicans, here they come. chris, barack obama is a boxing fan. to use a boxing analogy, he s been stunned and is standing there in the middle of the ring waiting for someone to stalk him. in the polls, republicans have never liked him but independents did a
[captioning made possible by nbc universal] chris: welcome to the show. with us today, our panel. first up, it was a week when you didn t need polls to show you that barack obama s way down by a serious loss of confidence after that downgrade of the u.s. with markets crashing. the president, no impact on traders or investors when he tried to project strength with the force of his words. the polls out this week have his approval numbers in the low 40 s and that drop in confidence comes at the moment when the republican race is finally under way. their nomination is truly worth having. howard, the president had a terrible week with what we called a bungee-jumping congress, it s a great time for republicans, here they come. chris, barack obama is a boxing fan. to use a boxing analogy, he s been stunned and is standing there in the middle of the ring waiting for someone to stalk him. in the polls, republicans have never liked him but independents did and his base was strong wit