democrat candidate or republican candidate or tea party candidate, 36, 24, 13. 13 percent would go for the tea party candidate and now you see this debate, six months away, as to whether or not the tea party and the republicans will split the ticket, juan. what do you make of this? that s what it is, you ve got a future as a political analyst, bi- that s what i was going to say, look, what you re seeing is a split, so many people in the tea party, the majority say that they re either leaning republican or are republican, and now it becomes are you going to vote for the tea party candidate or are you going to vote republican and you can see that works to the benefit of democrats who in that poll come out on top. bill: i think that is truly something we should watch and pay close attention to. absolutely. bill: we re going to get back into that more next week. juan, this a great weekend. thank you bill. martha: this is very interesting, folks, a technical glitch that leads all the
endorsement, juan. far away. look, what you ve got is most americans saying the country is on the wrong track, something is definitely wrong, and what they pinpoint, bill, is government. i mean, they see government as a threat to their safety, to their liberty. it s really striking because it doesn t comport with what we know from before. right now, given the economic anxiety that exists in the country, the high rate of unemployment, people feel that government is the one that s been bill: do you think it s the jobs number, just unemployment or is there more to it? do you go back to the health care de debate, go back to what people on the right are saying, we were calling you about jobs and the economy and you ignored them? right. what people feel now is they can t trust the leadership, they can t trust the leadership of government because what they fear is government is driving up taxes, imposing programs and regulations they don t agree with, so that s the driving beat righ