first which shows that right now after we knew that bin laden had been killed, his job approval number was at 52%. it only went up over the weekend before we knew about this and he really did not get much of a bounce on this. here is why. let s go to the other graphic. i ll show you why. he does get a nice bounce on how he super bowl handling the bounce. # 0% approved. afghanistan, 51 to 58 they now approve. looking at issue number one, the economy, january 45% and on the deficit, dealing with the deficit has gone down and now only 35% approve of the way he s dealing with the deficit. so it shows that he s not getting much of a bounce right now. when the concern in the country was post 9/11, are we
at a moment like that, maybe people would be willing to go along with a sort of different point of view. even dick cheney said that. dick cheney seems to be to the left of barack obama on the gun issue. so i guess it s true. he has moved to the center. and it s helping him in the polls. there s no doubt about that. in our most recent job approval number, 55%, it was in the low 40s not that long ago. so this move to the center is certainly seems to be helping him with the american public. well, we don t know what s helping him. maybe it was the fact there was a tragedy. people tend to rally around the president when there s any sort of tragedy. remember after 9/11 bush s approval rating was 90% or something. i don t think that was because he got a lot smarter after he was attacked. maybe it s because obama s popularity hiked ba ed because
banks, whether your company is worried about the epa. there are all sorts of in the first two years of the obama administration, it seemed every time you turned around there was somebody else waiting out there to unload new regulations on you, including small business, and that has dampened business investment, so he s trying to get them to come, wand that it will turn around his politics. look at these numbers, gloria, because in the last few weeks as he s moved towards the center with his political hires as well as his statements, reaching out to wall street, back in september his job approval number was 42%. went up to 45% in october, 48% in november and 48% december, and now in our latest cnn opinion research corporation poll, 53% job approval which is a pretty good number at this point. sure. you know, this could be a result of the lame duck session where people believed that a lot was accomplished. it could be a result of the speech in tucson. the interesting thing to me th
i ll explain in a moment why 1% of none of the above is important. this is a race in which neither candidate ranks well with the voters. if you look at how sharron angle is regarded by the voters you see 53% of nevada voters think she is too extreme. so you think how can she be ahead? well, look at harry reid s job approval number in this same poll. harry reid disapproved of by 56% of voters and the same number when asked the question has he been in office too long, the same number, here it is, 56-40% say yes, indeed, he has. go back to 1%. the option, none of the above is actually on the ballot in nevada. bret: someone could walk in and say not harry reid they may not like reid and may not like ankle and they will vote for none of the above. that s a real threat to angle s candidacy. the number is down to 1%.
i ll explain in a moment why 1% of none of the above is important. this is a race in which neither candidate ranks well with the voters. if you look at how sharron angle is regarded by the voters you see 53% of nevada voters think she is too extreme. so you think how can she be ahead? well, look at harry reid s job approval number in this same poll. harry reid disapproved of by 56% of voters and the same number when asked the question has he been in office too long, the same number, here it is, 56-40% say yes, indeed, he has. go back to 1%. the option, none of the above is actually on the ballot in nevada. bret: someone could walk in and say not harry reid they may not like reid and may not like ankle and they will vote for none of the above. that s a real threat to angle s candidacy. the number is down to 1%.