does well with independents. sources told fox giuliani wants to run. and many are convinced he will run. but the former mayor insists he won t make a time decision until august. bret? a lot happening quickly. thank you. for most people the idea of going back to college or going to college in the first place is to improve their job prospects. president obama today addressed students who may not be able to find any job once they graduate. white house correspondent wendell goler shows us what he said. reporter: at a community college outside washington, president obama acknowledged for the second time this week the economy isn t creating job fast enough. there are too many people out there who are still out of work. without a job that allows them to save money, or create the life they want for the families. a new fox news poll indicates the president s job performance rating lost the bounce it got after usama bin laden was killed in early may. one by gallup puts critics handling
does well with independents. sources told fox giuliani wants to run. and many are convinced he will run. but the former mayor insists he won t make a time decision until august. bret? a lot happening quickly. thank you. for most people the idea of going back to college or going to college in the first place is to improve their job prospects. president obama today addressed students who may not be able to find any job once they graduate. white house correspondent wendell goler shows us what he said. reporter: at a community college outside washington, president obama acknowledged for the second time this week the economy isn t creating job fast enough. there are too many people out there who are still out of work. without a job that allows them to save money, or create the life they want for the families. a new fox news poll indicates the president s job performance rating lost the bounce it got after usama bin laden was killed in early may. one by gallup puts critics
or if, while on enbrel, you experience persistent fever, bruising, bleeding, or paleness. ask your rheumatologist if enbrel is right for you. and help bridge the gap between the life you live. and the life you want to live. two years into his term, president obama s job performance rating has slipped to an all time low. a new fox poll shows obama s approval rating at 40%. it stood at 50% a year ago. and another fox news poll shows only 29% of americans think obama will be re-elected in 2012. that s down 15% from last december. how does this compare to past presidents half way through their first term? let s ask our political panel this morning, republican pollster john mclaughlin, radio
u.s. did the wrong thing by becoming involved militarily in iraq. and when the scope is widened to broader security concerns about six in 10 voters, 58%, agree the action made the united states and the world safer. again, more than one third, 37%, takes the opposing view. julie: and the president s job performance rating. how did he do this week? we just got two months to go before election day. our poll finds that more voters still disprove than approve of president obama s job performance. yet his approval rating suspect a couple of points from summer lows. currently 64% of person who voters approve of the job the president is doing and 48% disapprove. last month it was a 43% to 49%. his approval rating has been holding steady at 43% for the previous two months. and based on the president s performance so far, more voters think the country would be better off with someone else after the next election and think obama deserves
it s too much. we can t do it. we ve been there for a decade. and let s talk about substance and not just style. it s not an article, a rolling stone article that brought him down, the belief by stanley mcchrystal the united states had to fight and die in afghanistan for another decade. and we just weren t ready to do that. mike, talk about this presidency as a whole and the optics. new numbers coming in. new nbc news/ the wall street journal poll show a summer of discontent for most americans. president obama s job performance rating has dropped to the lowest level of his presidency. these are just out. it s now at 45% compared to 48% who disapprove. now 62% of americans believe the country is on the wrong track. just 29% believe we re headed in the right direction. when it comes to the president s favor ability rating, 47% expressed positive feelings toward obama and 40% said they have negative feelings and