would be faced to a lesser extent by jeb bush,. how too you change an image that has been formed over decades? stuart this is stunning at least it is to me, but hillary clinton is one of only a half ad dozen figures in the 20th 20th century who have been at the top of politics, in the news, day after day, for more than 20 years. continue obviously. she is on her 23rd year already and the election isn t until next year. so, it s just very difficult to change your image when people have been forming their image of you over such a long period of time. it must be very difficult to overcome such a big negative number going in. what is it, 51% have an unfavorable opinion of hillary clinton as of this moment. that s an enormous number. i m sure that the clinton people aren t counting on winning on the basis of trust
because what you see is he picks these fights and revs up conservatives. that s why you see the numbers in iowa. the chris christie negative number in iowa is interesting. he s the only one in the poll who is a negative. the more he goes out there, the more the numbers go down. the republican-based voters want somebody who fight. somebody who will fight the media and democrats, somebody who will stand up for their issues they believe the base voters whether it s the headlines on same-sex marriage or other issues that their leaders aren t standing up. we have the big question will the department of homeland security get its money by the end of the week? the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell yesterday tried what he believed to be a reasonable compromise he s being hammered by the rye. mitch mcconnell wants to split it into two questions, give the president the money to fund the department and eunuch mitch mcconnell squeal likes a pig, in
start writing checks to take down santorum. so newt s going to be in a stronger position. this i think this journey s going to continue all the way to tampa. and that s just not good for the eventual republican nominee, not good for the republican brand, not good for republican senatorial candidates, not good for anyone in the party. not to run it into the ground, but to run it into the ground let s run it into the ground. they have done damage over the brands over the last two months. first gingrich and herman cain and donald trump and now the back and forth between santorum and romney. but at the conclusion of all of that, it s the pace of events that are going to dictate who the next president of the united states is going to be. just two weeks ago, we had the startling good news, the jobless numbers. right. would 8 two weeks from now, you could get a stunning negative number and the whole thing shifts back