there s this gap growing. i mean, the public opinion is moving quite swiftly right now as just an empirical matter you re getting 70%, 80% numbers. 60% of republicans. it s moving up the priority list of democratic voters, right? so not only do you see more and more. one of the other network polls in the summer said it was the number one issue among registered democrats. so that s happening at the sort of the respect of massive opinion. and you re also seeing all this organizing happening. but yet the u.s. administration and a president who s it s not just he s doing nothing, he s almost in a sociopathic way seemingly bent on making the problem worse in every possible way. yeah, it s it has a strange aspect to it because he will say, for example, i want crystal clean water even as he s
there s this gap growing. i mean the public opinion is moving quite swiftly right now in a way i mean as an empirical matter, 70/80% numbers. 60% of republicans. it s moving up the priority list of democratic voters. not only do you see more and more one of the other network polls in the summer said it was the number one issue among registered democrats. so frump the perspective of mass opinion and you re seeing all this organizing happening. a president who s not just doing nothing. it s almost a socio pathic way. seemingly bent on mocking the problem worse in every possible way. it has a strange aspect to it
been broken. we ve also seen that support for the affordable care act has been coming down in recent weeks, through varies network polls and others. and you have republican marco rubio this morning suggesting to fox that the president blaming republicans for some of this is off the mark. take a listen. it is one of the silliest statement that is i heard made so far about the law. there is nobody s fault on the republicanside that the exchange website isn t working. it is nobody s fault on the republican side that millions of people are in fear of losing their existing coverage. this is the way the law was designed. it is, it is going to fail because the design doesn t work. reporter: now, most worrisome for the president in some of these polls, cbs/new york times poll out this morning for example, suggests 40% of the public beliefs the law should be repealed and over 40% of the public believes it should be changed if not repealed. that is something the white house is resisting is
recently asked readers what they think about the the job the president has been doing. i think we have the numbers. we can put them on the screen right now. 60% approval rating for the president. 39% disapprove of the job he is doing. he has gotten a major bump since the death after usama bin laden. well, every day there is a new poll. he just talked about one 20 minutes ago a reuters poll showed obama s numbers not nearly as good. other network polls, university polls, one thing we aren t lacking for are polls. you have to step back and look at all of them, most of them show me the president s job approval now is up somewhere between three and eight points. he is probably somewhere in the mid 50s even though the ap had him at 60. that is a nice run over the past couple weeks. but we re in a really artificial, atypical environment. look, the u.s. military just