a distant second is rick perry, who spent a lot of time down there in florida, and pundits thought he would be the one to win that straw poll result. the other one that came out this weekend, michigan, and mitt romney is at the top. no surprise here. listen, romney was born in michigan. his father a former governor there. very popular. romney won the primary there back in 2008. he was expected to win. but perry did go up to michigan and campaign and he was a distant second. for perry, i think a lot of people are saying that those uneven debate performances, especially last week and the attacks on rick perry over his stance on illegal immigration, may be taking a toll. one other thing from the debates or from the straw polls, michele bachmann nowhere to be seen near the top. remember she won the straw poll in iowa in august. but she finished very low down in both of these straw polls. one thing about those, they are important. they are a gauge or a test or a barometer of a cam
of a real boom in internet tech stocks. we saw this week with the russian search company having a really successful ipo. i think they were just surfing a wave and the wave went higher than they thought. the other important point to note is for the actual owners and founders of linkedin, you might think, did these guys get i was going to say screwed did they get screwed by wall street? i think the answer is not so much because the truth is, they still own most of the company. this has made them one of the sexiest companies on the street. and actually i don t think they re that unhappy with their bankers. there s still time to figure out how to price these things. it is a little bit like in 1999. chrystia calls it a boom. we ll continue to talk about this. thanks for joining us, the markets are up, the markets are down. it s not necessarily an investing atmosphere if you are faint of heart. i m going to show you how to defensively invest your money next. with transitions lenses.
lot of individual reasons for individual candidates who decided not to run. but i have to tell you, you look at those figures and you say, whoa, the president is in for a rough reelection ride. should he get it simply because if that many people think the economy is poor, that certainly is not going to help him at the voting booth. but here s the rub. they don t actually blame president obama for the economy. 55% of americans blame george bush. just 30% blame president obama. so he is running counter to conventional wisdom in that people still blame president bush and i think, by extension, republicans for the current state of the economy. so i don t think it s the while it looks like a great number and republicans ought to be jumping in and saying, oh, wow, the president is really vulnerable. when you look inside the numbers, he is less vulnerable than that would imply. let s look at the republicans who said no. jeb bush, donald trump, mike huckabee. but let s focus on