as you see here, just less than 30% believe they re going to evaluate president obama with a clean fresh slate. 64% will evaluate him based on past feelings. and here, a continuation of a trend we saw throughout the first term. very much similar frankly to what ronald reagan tell with in his first four years. personally, the public really likes president obama. 74%. but his policies, again, more people disapprove of the policies. 49%, than approve of them there, at 47%. so what about the next four years? sort of a mixed optimism, if you will. i go back to the idea of pragmatic hope. 43% optimistic. 35% pessimistic. 22% kind of mixed. and staying with the theme of word clouds, david, we asked folks to send a message to president obama. what would they like to say for his second term? and as you can see here, look at the most popular phrases. a lot of them have to do with the economy. fix the economy. create jobs. then there s stop spending. and then, of course, probably
this time, call it pragmatic hope as far as the public is concerned. as you see here, just less than 30% believe they re going to evaluate president obama with a clean fresh slate. 64% will evaluate him based on past feelings. and here, a continuation of a trend we saw throughout the first term. very much similar frankly to what ronald reagan did in his first four years. personally, the public really likes president obama. 74%. but his policies, again, more people disapprove of the policies. 49%, than approve of them there, at 47%. so what about the next four years? sort of a mixed optimism, if you will. i go back to the idea of pragmatic hope. 43% optimistic. 43% pessimistic. 22% kind of mixed. and staying with the theme of word clouds, david, we asked folks to send a message to president obama. what would they like to say for his second term? and as you can see here, look at the most popular phrases. a lot of them have to do with the economy. fix the economy. create jobs. then there
send to the president create more jobs, stop spending, fix the economy. the next most common answer compromise. when we asked for a message people wanted to send to congress one in three americans said they wanted lawmakers to work together. the top response, by far. we didn t prompt them mind you. they also wanted congress to get to work, represent constituents, fix the economy, and stop spending. overall americans are frustrated and growing more pessimistic about their leadership in washington. a tough situation for president obama. if you put our numbers in context you ll see the situation is very similar to the one president bush faced at the start of his second term in 2005. let s bring in the team who conducted this poll, democratic pollster peter hart and republican pollster mcinturf. bill, i ll start with you, because you wanted to add this one question about the about
here. the difference is getting smaller and smaller. the growing segment is the libertarian network that s what we concentrate on my network and show. bill: let s take the debt ceiling which we just talked about. we owe $16.5 trillion. all right? obviously any intelligent person knows if we keep going this way the u.s. dollar is going to collapse which is why you demand to be paid in gold. i don t but that s not a bad idea. bill: libertarian say we don t want any paper money anymore? what do you want? i can t speak for the libertarian. bill: you said you are a libertarian. i am. i can speak for me as a libertarian. that is a very wide platform. for me, stop spending. cut the size of the government. go into reason. you were talking about this new coin. are you out of your mind? bill: they are not going to do that.
it s a diminishing return here. the difference is getting smaller and smaller. the growing segment is the libertarian network that s what we concentrate on my network and show. bill: let s take the debt ceiling which we just talked about. we owe $16.5 trillion. all right? obviously any intelligent person knows if we keep going this way the u.s. dollar is going to collapse which is why you demand to be paid in gold. i don t but that s not a bad idea. bill: libertarian say we don t want any paper money anymore? what do you want? i can t speak for the libertarian. bill: you said you are a libertarian. i am. i can speak for me as a libertarian. that is a very wide platform. for me, stop spending. cut the size of the government. go into reason. you were talking about this new coin. are you out of your mind? bill: they are not going to do that.