chewed up and spit out faster than back in those days. people s impressions are more subject to change. back and forth between now and the election, i do think that the weakness that mitt romney has shown as a candidate is, you know, i d say strategically important. and can overturn a lot of the other trend issues. he has time to find his footing between now and november but if he can t, people still are going to be judging these two men against this backdrop, what they think may or may not be happening with the economy. john heilemann, does it make sense to you? he says it s been this way since 52. it makes sense to me for kind of an odd reason. i had a conversation with the political director for bill clinton in 1996. he s done a similar type of analysis. he s looked at approval ratings for presidents and found the trend lines and what s happening with the presidential approval in the winner it and spring of an election year matters more than what s happening towards the end of
year, and they still picked up 26 seats. that one could have been a lot worse, and republicans ended up holding on to a bunch of senate seats by very narrow mar jibs. that was still a rough election for republicans, and certainly 1994, so he s down right in that area where presidents at this point in their presidencies have real tough elections. and, you know, let s look at this even further. we looked at a bunch of issues. we measured 12 of them, separate issues, and asked is he meeting expectations, or has he fallen short based on what you thought he was going to do? 50% or more said that he s falling short on ten of these issues, including, and this one surprised me, including the u.s. image abroad, the war in iraq, health care, standing up to big business, the war in afghanistan, handling, regulating wall street, dealing with the economy, changing washington, reducing government spending and dealing with the federal budget deficits. charlie, obviously a lot of this, it may be col
what happened to ricky? i said it s like inviting a hammerhead shark to dinner. when he eats all the guests, you start complaining. you kind of know what you re going to get. that s one thing of the but as i said, i don t think i did anything wrong. i honestly those were like jibs at these people. i m sure they ve got a sense of humor. i m sure johnny depp johnny depp is one of the most successful, richest, most loved, most handsome people on the planet. i m sure he s got a sense of humor. if he hasn t, all those things are wasted. but i m sure he has. do you really think that he hasn t seen the press about the tourist? do you really think he s hurt that i didn t like the tourist? i like your confidence. having interviewed lots of hollywood stars before, i think your confidence that none of them would be offended is probably stretching it a bit. i mean, they can be delicate little flowers. well, okay. if they are, i m sorry for them being offended, but i m not sorry for any
i said it s like inviting a hammerhead shark to dinner. when he eats all the guests, you start complaining. you kind of know what you re going to get. that s one thing of the but as i said, i don t think i did anything wrong. i honestly those were like jibs at these people. i m sure they ve got a sense of humor. i m sure johnny depp johnny depp is one of the most successful, richest, most loved, most handsome people on the planet. i m sure he s got a sense of humor. if he hasn t, all those things are wasted. but i m sure he has. do you really think that he hasn t seen the press about the tourist? do you really think he s hurt that i didn t like the tourist? i like your confidence. having interviewed lots of hollywood stars before, i think your confidence that none of them would be offended is probably stretching it a bit. i mean, they can be delicate little flowers. well, okay. if they are, i m sorry for them being offended, but i m not sorry for anything i said
what happened to ricky? i said it s like inviting a hammerhead shark to dinner. when he eats all the guests, you start complaining. you kind of know what you re going to get. that s one thing of the but as i said, i don t think i did anything wrong. i honestly those were like jibs at these people. i m sure they ve got a sense of humor. i m sure johnny depp johnny depp is one of the most successful, richest, most loved, most handsome people on the planet. i m sure he s got a sense of humor. if he hasn t, all those things are wasted. but i m sure he has. do you really think that he hasn t seen the press about the tourist? do you really think he s hurt that i didn t like the tourist? i like your confidence. having interviewed lots of hollywood stars before, i think your confidence that none of them would be offended is probably stretching it a bit. i mean, they can be delicate little flowers. well, okay. if they are, i m sorry for them being offended, but i m not sorry for any