and pete buttigieg. other polls show elizabeth warren may be moving a little bit in advance of this debate. it s an opportunity i think the race has settled a bit right now. it s an opportunity now to reset the race. biden, lots of questions about how he ll perform under the spotlight, how he ll perform if these candidates start taking shots at him, how his numbers respond to that is more significant than where it is right now. does one of these candidates, buttigieg or warren or harris, do they stand out in a way where after the debate we re talking about them clearly moving into second place? i think that s the other big question ahead. when you look at these head to head matchups, and again always hypothetical, always very early, biden leads the president by ten points, bernie sanders nine, three other democrats also shown here beating trump. is this too early or at least are we seeing a trend that should be worrisome for the for the president s reelect? it s worrisome, but it
for nine years now which, of course, is unusual in and of itself. the cycle has been up for nine years. we ll see what happens. willie, despite all of that great news, again, i just want to go over the head to head matchups, and one we didn t show before. let s put the head to head matchups up on the screen, if we can, alealex, and show again in this quinnipiac poll, donald trump pounded by biden by 13. by sanders by nine. harris losing by eight. warren losing by seven. mayor pete, losing by five. cory booker, by five, as well. one we didn t put up, benjamin dryer brought it to our attention. waxy yellow buildup, 48%. that s, of course, benjamin dryer of dryer s english. 3.6% unemployment. waxy yellow buildup. stop saying that. just polling ahead. by the way, what is the margin
president s job approval and more so in the job approval of congress and the republican party. in a head to head matchup, he continues to lead and it s widening a tiny bit because elections are not contests. they don t like the other choice. in the same polls t shows in head to head matchups, president obama defeating all of the republican candidates each though he is struggling with independent voters and folks in the midwest. for will be a turn out game. no doubt the campaign is happy to see the numbers among african-american voters and turning out people that voted for him. thank you to you. maria bartiromo will moderate the next debate tomorrow. watch your money, your vote. the presidential debate at 8:00 eastern. we are following developing news about president obama s health care law and a new ruling that
that person s primary and once that s done, we ll have a good idea how the calendar shakes out. we have polls in two key battle ground states being released. pennsylvania and ohio. they go like this. in the head to head matchups, president obama meets romney and perry. what do you make of the fact that the president has low approval numbers but still polling better against the gop field? he always does better when you re matched up and with an actual republican. mitt romney, rick perry, or any other named republican. what i was interested in seeing was president obama around 45, 46% republicans. you want to be closer to 50%. there are two ways to look at it. right now, after that bruising debt ceiling debate, the president is in trouble and stakes may go high on pennsylvania but he only needs a few more percentage points increase to get in that safer territory when you re in the high 40s or close to 50%. okay.
polls to mitt romney who s not even the nominee yet. democrats have talked about how the president continues to beat all of the republicans in these hypothetical, head to head matchups, this is one of the first polls i can remember showing that not to be the case. but how significant is it that some of these head to head matchups in several of the swing states now are starting to tighten, bret, and not just between president obama and mitt romney, but we re seeing some tightening between a hypothetical matchup between president obama and herman cain, even preen president obama and rick perry who is lagging on the gop side but at least according to usa today /gallup when you look at the swing states, romney himself is within five points of the president. i m sorry, perry. yeah, and we point out in these polls the margin of error, plus or minus three. so, essentially, they re tied. listen, we read a lot into polls. sometimes people criticize us for reading too much into polls too earl