blocking his proposals and programs. and then 44% said president obama has not provided the leadership necessary on the economy. so in that one poll reading, the president is certainly winning the perception game as the guy who s real lly trying to get something done. well, look, i think overall the fact that americans are frustrated with the state of the economy and with the pace of job creation is wholly understandable and reflected in the data. but i think it s also the case reflected in what you just cited that americans understand that the president is putting forward ideas and proposals that they support that they think makes sense and they know when they ve looked into it or heard enough about it, are paid for and for in a way they support which is with regard to the american jobs act asking millionaires and billionaires to pay a little extra so that we can get this economy back on track and growing jobs. so i think that s what that specific citation reflects and i
thing and are defending herman cain over this same sort of thing. well, i agree completely. i think fundamentally that s what the story s about. i think millions of americans will see it that way. it s a story of rank hypocrisy. you know, and the fact of the matter is, what herman cain ought to do is ought to stand up, he ought to answer every question until the reporters are done asking questions. he ought to demand that the national restaurant association release the study, release the report, redact the women s names from it. he should demand the national restaurant association release all the information they have on this matter to see if his assertions are credible or not. certainly on the one hand, i think you want to be very careful when accusations are made that there s a rush to judgment, that there is, you know, a rush to proclaim him guilty, where, you know, we live
and which this president has been digging us out of for the last almost three years. jay, to that point, the 73% who say the country is on the wrong track, will the presidential campaign essentially be a struggle over who got us on that wrong track? well, no, i think i think the american people still, if you look at the data, understand that the crisis that was here when the president took office wasn t created overnight and it certainly won t be resolved overnight. what i think most americans want to know is, where are you taking us? where do you think this country needs to go? and the president feels very strongly that his ideas about the need to grow the economy in the near term, create jobs in the near term are the right ones and they re the ones the american people broadly support. his ideas about how to get our long-term economic foundation in a solid state are also representative of sort of the broad american consensus about how we do that.
increased and health care has remained a number one worry for the american people. even at this stage in president obama s term. does that surprise you? well, it doesn t surprise me that health care is a preeminent concern for the american people because it s such an important part of their lives. what we know is that the affordable care act, which the president fought for and passed into law, has already created a lot of benefits for the american people. but much of what it will do happens in the next several years as the exchanges are created and more and more people are brought on to the insurance rolls. what i m sure most americans don t want is rescinding of the affordable care act which would prevent the possibility of an additional 30 million americans getting on, getting health insurance. and would also jack up our deficits substantially because there s significant deficit reduction built into the affordable care act.
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