to preview them. people are more pessimistic. let s preview right now. could be trouble for the president when you see the bleak outlook in our poll for the economy over the next 12 months. look at this, 27% of the people think the economy will improve over the next 12 months, down from 35% just last month. look at that, 8 point decline in optimism. the number who think the economy will get worse is on the rise from june, stands at 25%. i feel this. i think it s because we ve seen so many months this spring of the same unemployment number or slightly lower. but the president is defying gravity. these numbers should be dragging him down and they are not. romney s numbers are the one stagnant or going down. the president is holding steady. in our poll he picked up a little bit. so it shows you tactically the obama campaign is basically won the first half of the general election. the last 60 days who is going to control the biography of mitt romney. guess what the obama campaign
president obama celebrating his 50th birthday. both colbert and jon stewart helping him celebrate. jon stewart got him a gift. nice. it s the president s 50th birthday. i m no ingrate. i got him a little something that i think he s going to really enjoy. massive 500-point sell-off, dousing wall street in a sea of red. the bears are mauling wall street. watching it fall like a rock in a swimming pool. the 14th worst point decline for the s&p 500. extreme fear and panic. i don t know what happened. happy birthday to you [ applause ] crazy. it is completely inappropriate for the president to turn a year older when the nation is in crisis. it is not the first time obama has pulled this stunt. i have learned that barack obama has selfishly celebrated a
points and nasdaq is 30 and the dollar is trading up on rumors of a deal . so far, so good. and so if this holds, it could be a good day tomorrow in the markets . i am always leery of jumping to conclusions . you and i talked about the 08, it looked like the tarp deal fell off and the biggest point decline in history . you know, congress quickly got back together and approved tarp . the markets will stave off more sell outs and two months later, they were down thousands of points. we are focusing on the moment and the moment there is a deal or no deal. if it is a bad deal then keep in mind temperature is not for the rating s agencies liking. they would be looking for four trillion .
tantrum out of wall street, let s say the market sells off a big deal on monday or tuesday and they russia bad deal, it is not going to be the victory they think. i only want to go back to october of 08 when then president bush saw his first rescue for the financial industry, tarp u as you might recall, rejected in the house and the street fell close to 800 points. record point decline at the time. now, everyone straightened up and flew right after that and got another tarp rescue passed. i hate to end note regardless a couple of months later the dow was down 4,000 more points. so, sometimes when wall street has a hissy fit, i m not minimizing a big sell-off, if you respond to that at the moment and rush together something that might not be thought out you could roux the day. longer term will be just as rattled. harris: you are the calmest person to talk about this kind
tantrum out of wall street, let s say the market sells off a big deal on monday or tuesday and they russia bad deal, it is not going to be the victory they think. i only want to go back to october of 08 when then president bush saw his first rescue for the financial industry, tarp u as you might recall, rejected in the house and the street fell close to 800 points. record point decline at the time. now, everyone straightened up and flew right after that and got another tarp rescue passed. i hate to end note regardless a couple of months later the dow was down 4,000 more points. so, sometimes when wall street has a hissy fit, i m not minimizing a big sell-off, if you respond to that at the moment and rush together something that might not be thought out you could roux the day. longer term will be just as rattled. harris: you are the calmest person to talk about this kind