people in wall street have been embarrassed to be associated with republican party for a long time. right. they think they are anti-intellectual and based in the south and demagoguic. now i have so many people coming up to me on wall street with so much money saying i never voted democratic before. please, find me a republican i can write a huge check to. right. it seems to me that this is financially a big hit for democrats who a lot of people across the country don t realize that democrats have owned wall street. i wouldn t say owned. they made inroads. barack obama may get more money from wall street than anybody else. again, most people on wall street embarrassed of the national republican party. let s remember, bill clinton and bob rubin opened that door. true. chuck schumer, minded as well as anybody we were talking about natural resources. chuck schumer minded wall street
unity rally at the state capital there. he said again and again the republican choices have made the democrats job easier. whatever the outcome, that is clearly true. don t underestimate linda mcmahon. i bumped into someone who lives in new haven. at home depot? bumped into them, no, at the gas station. he has met her and gone to a couple of rallies out of curiosity. his bottom line she is not crazy and makes sense talking about the economy and jobs and blumenthal is vulnerable to a certain extent. this is not a layup. we ll see. very interesting. by the way, my campaign slogan in 94, i m not crazy. i just look it. a lot of people were down after that. exactly. it s all good for politico and morning joe. you re right, mike. talk to you later. 96, you know what my slogan was, mike?
now the truth of this store why were was that we didn t really learn anything we didn t already know if you were following the story. but a lot of americans didn t, i think, really grasp how how much pakistan wasn t really a good partner for us. to the economy, the president s handling of the economy. upside 5 % disapprove of his handling. he has a higher job rating overall. people proof approve of the job he is doing but not a lot but that means a chunk of voters. when that starts happening that is when you re wondering when why is the approval rating hanging in there? if that economy number keeps going down, that drags down we talked about wall street. had a battle if he has done enough. what do the american people think on wall street? how is the president handling wall street? what is interesting here he is upside down on everything. we measured 12 issues. is he meeting expectations or is he falling short? he fell short on ten of the 12
jim, the government bailout of the auto industry seemed to work. it seems to be working. you were just raving about gm. yes. why isn t that confidence in the government figuring out how to do the gm deal correctly? why isn t that confidence translate to go the rest of the business community some. they don t know how on embrace a win. they go to some little battery company in michigan that would be defunct if it weren t for their checks but where is malawi? whittaker says i want the government out of my company. wait a minute. they hired whittaker. whittaker saying every day i want the government out of my company. breaking weather news. ezra klein is in washington, d.c. is someone watching? there are massive thunderstorms. we, obviously, have a lot of people that watch in washington, d.c. since this is washington, d.c. show. but a massive thunderstorm is coming through washington, d.c. right now. i know a lot of you watch the show while you re getting
a quarter of men feel the same way. why am i reading this? more people not like they are giving up anything. others would like to shed 10 to 20 pounds during the summer than get promoted at work. go through that again! say that again. do that again. you need a poll to tell us this? basically, they would rather lose ten pounds than have sex or get promoted at work. you name it. they would rather lose weight than do it. it s a meaningless poll, though. a lot of women aren t having sex with their husbands any way so it costs them nothing, right? where do you get this information? let s just say i ve studied it! are you picking it up? they don t want to shower either. sponsored by nutrisystem tlam! is there a shock. with more on this poll, we turn to mike allen of politico with a look at the playbook. if you could dig into the