more. absolutely. you guys always are great to work with. you don t usually get too mad at us. i appreciate you getting it on the other side of the moving picture camera. up next, a fascinating look at what voters really think of washington. we are all confused. we don t know who it believe anymore. seems like nobody really wants to fix the problem. they are trying to make their pockets fatter. what voters in swing state ohio said about the economy and why they are so angry at washington. you are watching the daily rundown only on msnbc. but if congress, the fcc, and the administration free up. more licensed wireless spectrum, we can empower more. people to innovate, create new technologies and jobs. and strengthen the economy. america is the world s leader in wireless.
walk away from the problem. yeah. that was pretty clear. this larger thing going back to the ability to punish and the other thing was they figured out it s a washington problem that they are inially don t think has become a problem in their area. you see optimism as the economy gets better. the thing that that is interesting is can president obama recover? with the disappointment for people who supported him, if the health care website works better, is there a path back to him. for the president falling as far as he has in approval and managing to rebound. he is tracking with george w. bush who never did recover. you notice unemployment hit a five-year low and approval rating is at a five-year low. he is divorced from where the economy is and hard wired in. whether it bounces back.
race as well and where the pollster went to take a group of swing voters in a forum by the university of pennsylvania school was clear from the focus group of 11 area voters that washington right now is about as popular as a-rod at a convention. they issued a faithing indictment of washington and everyone in it. describe how you think things are going today. poor. confusing. timid. disorganized. disappointing. broken. they are indicting washington. they are indicting the president and congress. the system doesn t work. as the system doesn t work, they
dan, i want to start with you. it s not surprising the purpose of the focus group is to get context to the poor poll numbers and the poor reflection that clearly the public has for washington there. what was striking to me was the lack of not knowing what to do next. not knowing how to punish washington. that frustration has been out there for several cycles. once we got past 08 was a historic election and one in which people felt good about and maybe the country could turn a corner, what we have seen since then is polarization is worse than ever and the anger at washington is deeper than ever. i think part of this is related to the lack of real recovery for so many people with the economy. there a series of elements and people don t know what to do and when it comes time for election, they go back to the two sides. the republican or the democratic side.
just two said they will support that. the only real silver lining, though they were sour about washington gridlock, the job market and health care felt optimistic and all felt hopeful about the e economy and felt it was improving. two of the 11 called it a fork in the road and said declining popularity is a bump that he may be able to overcome. we asked them to describe political figures with a single word. here s what they came up with. enthusiasm for hillary clinton was striking. they assigned her the strong leadership qualities that allude the president right now. hillary clinton? distrustful. energetic. strong. vivacious. first woman president. powerful. i would say powerful.