Legislatures all across the country. And americans in a sour mood voting about the state of the country and the leaders. President obama not on the ballot tuesday. Barely seen on the campaign trail. His record defining the debate, his ratings are dismal. A brand new abc News Washington post poll out this morning. Only 44 of american few him favorably. The lowest of his career. Half the country thinks hes not a strong leader or competent manager. Thats weighing down democrats. And reporters in key states, and the powerhouse roundtable. Jonathan karl starts us off. Reporter from president obama last night, a first. He campaigned with an actual democratic candidate for senate. Vote for gary. This elections too important to stay home. Reporter its the one and only time a Senate Candidate will appear with the president during this entire campaign. And this democrat, gary peters of michigan, isnt even in a competitive race. And yet president obama has played a starring role in this campaign.
Governors seats and state legislatures all across the country. And americans in a sour mood voting about the state of the country and the leaders. President obama not on the ballot tuesday. Barely seen on the campaign trail. His record defining the debate, his ratings are dismal. A brand new abc News Washington post poll out this morning. Only 44 of american few him favorably. The lowest of his career. Half the country thinks hes not a strong leader or competent manager. Thats weighing down democrats. And reporters in key states, and the powerhouse roundtable. Jonathan karl starts us off. Reporter from president obama last night, a first. He campaigned with an actual democratic candidate for senate. Vote for gary. This elections too important to stay home. Reporter its the one and only time a Senate Candidate will appear with the president during this entire campaign. And this democrat, gary peters of michigan, isnt even in a competitive race. And yet president obama has played a starr
About. Sometimes youll have freemoving traffic and then youll hit these mystery backups for no apparent reason. Then traffic is clear and you hit another one of those. Projections say its only going to get worse, its going to be all backup the next few years but there is a plan here that would seek to alleviate that. It seems like right now the immediate answer lies beyond the beltway. Its a classic i66 scene, a backup that makes you late and leaves you without much choice. Miles of migraineinducing traffic. But unfortunately i think its an every day occurrence up here. Reporter but help could be on the way. Planners want to make major changes to the interstate between the beltway and haymaet. Its really as simple as that. Reporter why there . Why outside the beltway . We do know that a lot of motorists get there and either have to divert or they have to funnel into that bottleneck that gets into going into our nations capital. Reporter the key they say will be choice, making it an int
Jobs. Actual good economic news. And 2016 president ial hopefuls running to the campaign cycles first fullscale distraction, the vaccine debate. Apparently to have some measure of choice as well. Thats the balance the government has to decide. Gwen as the Measles Outbreak intensifies, what do the candidates answers tell us about what kind of president they would make . Covering the week, doyle mcmanus, walk columnist for l. A. Times, michael crowley, senior Foreign Policy reporter for politico. Ayman javers, washington corespondent for cnbc and karen tumulty, washington political corespondent for the washington post. Live from our nations capital, this is Washington Week with gwen ifill. Corporate funding for Washington Week is provided by how much money do you have in your pocket right now . I have 40. 20 more. Could something that small make an impact on something as big as your retirement . No. If you start putting that money towards your retirement every week and let it grow over t
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