climate change. 75% say go bold, 20% say fewer proposals and 4% say don t pass the bill. you could go into the meeting with the centrists and say the rest of the party wants to go bold. but there are some contradictions in our polling, if you will. who is doing more to help the democratic party right now? 49% say the progressives who want that big, bold agenda are doing more. but 51% say moderate, so the democratic party is evenly split on which side of the party, which pieces of the party best represent their views right now. so go bold but listen to the moderates is a bit of a conflict here. here is the biggest challenge for the president and his party right now. they are failing to sell this agenda to the american people in terms of how it would change your day-to-day life. only 25% of americans, one in four, think if the democrats pass this big bill it s going to make my life better day to day.
that s a big challenge right now. and in ten midterms, obamacare was drafted and they got smoked. in the midterms later that year, it became more popular. you watch a show, joe manchin is on tv saying, no, make it smaller and make it cost less. nancy pelosi said we promise to go bold. who is doing more to help the democratic party? well, if you are under the age of 45, you say, the progressives are doing more. let s have that big, ambitious agenda. the young energy tends to be more liberal, more progressive. if you ask people over the age of 45, 57% say, no, the moderates can limit spending. i think it is totally reflective of what we re seeing when we talk to voters out in the country, but i think a couple numbers that stood out to me despite those divisions was that more than eight out of ten
50% in our brand new poll released right now approve, 49% disapprove. an even split in our polarized time. you would like it to be a little better, but that s not bad. 50% approval rating for the president. what do americans think about this big economic agenda? a mix of climate change, social safety net. most of them say go big. 40% of americans say do it all, get that done here in washington. 40% say fewer proposals. 29% say don t pass anything. here s the challenge for the president. how do you move these numbers and what to do? if you look even just among democrats, the president knows this is going to be democrats alone here when the votes in congress happen. but look, 75% of democrats still want to go bold. they want it all, all those safety net proposals, pre-k, free community college, more
when i had this conversation with ed miliband, hejust produced his book which was about go big. i put it to him that labour s problem was because you didn t listen to people and you didn t like lots of people s attitudes, whether on immigration. labour appeared very judgemental. whether it s on benefits, they appearjudgemental. there was a sense on brexit that labour did not like many people they needed to vote for them. and keir starmer totally recognises this, and that s why he spent this summer going the length and breadth of the country meeting people who haven t voted for us. on some occasions for many years, and in some, the last election was the first time ever that they hadn t voted labour. we ve got to listen and take on board what they re
realise, do you remember the moment he realised he was going to lose, it was over? ., ~ , was over? labour keep losing, we have lost four was over? labour keep losing, we have lost four elections was over? labour keep losing, we have lost four elections in - was over? labour keep losing, we have lost four elections in a - was over? labour keep losing, we have lost four elections in a row. l have lost four elections in a row. only three moments really, 1945, 1964 and 1997 when labour has run and we won big. we made huge change. why have we lost four elections in a row? people didn t trust us. on a whole range of different areas. they prefer the others to us. we have got to look at ourselves and learn those lessons and turn those things around. as clement attlee did, as harold wilson did and as tony blair did. that is what i want to learn from, what we did on those three occasions. i from, what we did on those three occasions. . from, what we did on those three occasions from, what