approval is at 47%, while a clear majority disapprove of the president s job that he is doing on the economy. with us, democratic strategist, todd webster and republican strategist, karen happen rhetty. let s talk about the poll first. how damaging is this or does it bring back slow the momentum, so to speak in the president has been out there on the road a lot, todd webster. what do you make of the numbers here? they are not good. look, george h. w. bush was polling low in the 1990s, his party lost seven seats in the midterm election. barack obama is not on the ballot anywhere in the country. each of the candidates and the house and the senate and the governor s ray are running on their own records and i think the reason why democrats now in this last month are doing much better is the voters looking at each of the candidates on the ballot and determining for themselves which candidate is on my side and which candidate is pushing for more tax cults for millionaires sand that going
state, boxer in california, murray in washington state, feingold in wisconsin, manchin in west virginia, sestak in pennsylvania, all of these democrats are moving up, they are in the lead and they have got momentum on their side. and that s what happens. feingold is not in the lead. look at these races individually and match them up and figure who they are going to deal with. feingold is not in the lead and murray is not in the lead. come back there is a new poll out today. there is a new poll out today. feingold out today. he is behind and has been behind. he is closing it is now a tie race. he has made up 7 point notice last week. so you re saying that the poll numbers don t mean anything, todd that running with the president is still good medicine for the democrats who are out there? i m saying this each of these races is will be decided not by barack obama but by the candidates on the ballot, republican and a democrat. this is a comment from the town hall, t
that s coming up. but this is the story that has me fired up tonight. we are two weeks out from election day in this country and many people think it is the most important election in the history of the country and basically this is the landscape, 99 seat of the house are iplayn you 15 seats in the senate are in play and the corporate money, without transparency, is guiding the force for the predicted republican takeover. it is pouring n americans, we are getting gamed by the chamber of commerce and karl rove and i think we are fool it is we stand here silent. in the process, some folks in the media claim the unions, they are doing the same thing. that is nothing but garbage. every dime, hear merck every dime is accounted for on behalf of the workers in this country who are in organized labor. so i think maybe the best way to explain this is let s just take this to a personal level. if you get audited by the irs, you can t be generic. you have to account for every expenditu
he thinks the united states should follow the example of east germany? and two weeks out from the midterm elections, our new nbc poll shows the president s job approval is at 47%, while a clear majority disapprove of the president s job that he is doing on the economy. with us, democratic strategist, todd webster and republican strategist, karen happen rhetty. let s talk about the poll first. how damaging is this or does it bring back slow the momentum, so to speak in the president has been out there on the road a lot, todd webster. what do you make of the numbers here? they are not good. look, george h. w. bush was polling low in the 1990s, his party lost seven seats in the midterm election. barack obama is not on the ballot anywhere in the country. each of the candidates and the house and the senate and the governor s ray are running on their own records and i think the reason why democrats now in this last month are doing much better is the voters looking at each of the candidat
where he is at in those areas and he is much further down than 47%. and that s why it is ed if you look state by state, boxer in california, murray in washington state, feingold in wisconsin, manchin in west virginia, sestak in pennsylvania, all of these democrats are moving up, they are in the lead and they have got momentum on their side. and that s what happens. feingold is not in the lead. look at these races individually and match them up and figure who they are going to deal with. feingold is not in the lead and murray is not in the lead. come back there is a new poll out today. there is a new poll out today. feingold out today. he is behind and has been behind. he is closing it is now a tie race. he has made up 7 point notice last week. so you re saying that the poll numbers don t mean anything, todd that running with the president is still good medicine for the democrats who are out there? i m saying this each of these races is will be decided not by b