website, there are other issues, how do you expect americans to have confidence and certainty in this law? what do you thick has been your biggest mistake? with respect to health care specifically or general? the whole thing, back at this tough year. looks like fun, right? however the year does include a 14 point slide in the president s job approval numbers down to 41%, which is an all-time low for the president. markets are at an all-time high. we learned the economy is growing much faster than expect the. unemployment is falling. the president highlighted that, rising health care enrollment numbers and sited the recent budget deal as evidence that political gridlock does not have to be a permanent condition. here to talk about this year and next year, senior political analyst david, john king and candy crowley. the major focus of this press
or their new product tanked? or not? what if they embrace new technology instead? imagine a company s future with the future of trading. company profile. a research tool on thinkorswim. from td ameritrade. welcome back to the lead. in the politics lead now, the white house not exactly ending the year on a high note. a new poll from the washington post /abc news puts the president at the worst public approval rating of his presidency, 43%. oh, what a difference a year makes. last december in the weeks before his second inaugural, the same poll had him at 54%. it s an 11 point slide. the biggest hit may be on the public s perception of how capable president obama is at helping the middle class. let s bring in today s panel. former republican governor of minnesota and current president and ceo of the financial
a pew research center survey finds just 41% of those polled approve of the president s job performance. that is a 14% point slide since december. now, the poll also shows people aren t convinced the economic recovery is that rosy. 65% say they disapprove of the way the president is handling that. so let s unpack some of the poll numbers and look into them. and the botched obama carrollout with the political experts. we have maria cardona, democratic analyst, and rahim salem, also a contributor to the national review. good to have you both here this morning. we learned last week we learned last week how quickly the segments go by, so let s get to it. let s put the numbers up, the graphic. 65% disapprove of the president s handling of the economy. but the economy is growing, job climate is improving, saw more than 200,000 jobs added in the month of october. housing is coming back. is this about the president and
marry him, marry him. she said yes. the carrots kept dancing. i m shepard smith. this is the fox report. it s the bottom of the hour, time for the top of the news. on a day of colossal losses on wall street. all the major indices down 4%. dow off 500. ninth worst point loss ever. the stock market turmoil could not come at a worse time for the obama administration as a new fox news poll indicates the president s approval rating is sinking fast. our chief white house correspondent ed henry here on that. sounds like the economy is as expected having a real impact on the president s approval rating. that s right. shep. the markets taking a beating. the president s approval rating as well. for the first time in fox news polling during his presidency, a majority now a 1% of the american people do not think is he a strong, decisive leader. that is a 15 point slide for the president. if you go back to october of 2009, 60% of the nation thought he was a strong, decisive leader. that dipped do
react predictably, be another bloodbath. here is what president obama had to say earlier. the markets will rise apes fall. this is the united states of america. no matter what some agency may say, we ve always been and always will be a triple-a country. eric: no mr. obama, mr. obama, that 600-point downdraft was on the heels of a 500-point drubbing last thursday and whopping 2,000 point slide in just a few days. the market is screaming for help. obamanomics is failing. the president is clean out of ideas. dana, president obama keeps pointing the finger saying he inherited a bad economy, inherited a recession. he also inherited a triple-a rating. dana: couple of things. the line he delivered in the sound bite there, the line is a good one. if it was not read off a teleprompter.