correspondent for the national journal. hear is jay carney trying to explain the significant can of al-libi. there is no clear successor to take on the his duties. they removed the number two leader for the second time in less than a year. further injuring the groups moral and cohe thinks and bringing it close tore demise than ever before. let me go to brian on this. it seems like w. would be hot dogging on the white house steps in cowboy boots if this was on his watch, and now obama is doing it in a quiet way. they re not paying attention to this killing at the top are they? it s clear the economy is the number up with issue, but the record on national securities that been so strong, it s like people have not noticed.
asking for higher salaries or libraries be open every other sunday, and you see public sector employees arguing for more money, that s distasteful to a lot of people. president obama still showed a lot of strength in the exit polling. he has a seven point lead in the exit poll. that s a good news if you believe the exit polls. i m not sure how good they are, i m very conceptble in this environment. i m skeptical in polling this year. in terms of turnout and everything, it s too hard to figure who will vote and how they will vote. i agree, since you brought up the exist polls, i think there are lots of concerns about them and why, one reason i think is in wisconsin. i was astonished in how firmly and strongly people are divided. this information says that most
conversations. i think you ought to go to the water cooler, right, in the offices of america, in the office parks and so forth, where you re going to find the kind of men who are going to have a reasonable conversation, who aren t going to think that romney and the republicans are the solution or the answer. yeah, matt, what do you think, that anecdotal factor of people who work in offices rather than work in road gangs or work in factory, you ve got a better shot? yeah, i think that s right. although, there are parts of his record that are macho, as you mentioned, killing bin laden. prosecuting these wars. saving ford and gm. how about saving the auto industry? yeah, those are things it seems to me they can play up. i m not sure it s going to work, but there are certainly things they can turn to. well, what is it about i want to give you a shot at this, matt. what is it about obama that turns off, we ll say it, white working class guys who didn t go to college? let s be de
exit polls yesterday, but he has a problem with one significant determine graph ib. obama s support among wisconsin men took an eight point dive since 2008. eight points. nationally his disapproval number among men has risen to 50%. that s going up, up from two years ago. we talk about the significance on this program, fair enough, coming up in november, but what about the men. what can obama do to win more of them? we have two guests with us. it s great to have you on. i m looking at these numbers and they re pretty depressing in this sense. a drp of eight points in the exist poll yesterday. and whatever you take it for whether you value it or not, that s a significant drop among men. what s going on? i think you re seeing a real problem with men, especially
it. no question a certain amount of complacency has set in. you have apart from the bin laden targeting that did make big news and give obama a bump for a little while, you have a drip, drip, drip of one leader after another, most americans have never heard their names before, in total, i think it has been enormously effective against al-qaeda to the point where tradition than inly, it s no longer the main threat, it s the new offshoot of al-qaeda. as brian said, the economy has become so much the all embracing issue, that this is, at best, will be a slight edge for balob. let s look at candidate obama, who was hammered by his