he has democrats on his side as he goes up for re-election. it does work towards his efforts here. following up what mary said, i would say it in a different way, if this is what he truly believes in and this is what he s going to put himself out to the voters for and that is h he put himself out to the voters for. a . talking about your state, mary. let s talk about california. oh, good, the sane one. in our new nbc/washington journal poll, only 1% of americans here believe that our borders are totally secure. coming from a border state, when you look at what has been discussed so far in the immigration bill, does it fix the problem? i think that, look, you know, the emotions in california got so high, the rhetoric gis toned
obama has been obama and his topdown means government top down. that was the message in 2008 and he got elected. we have to kick up our game. explain why it is because you like romney. why is it his negatives are potts or 35 and negatives because he s painted at boring. they ve been crushing him. there you go. so what are obama s negatives and positives. he s 36 or 38 positive, 48 negative. you re talking about very positive and negative. look at the washington journal poll. you have to look at it. higher positives than negatives. not in gallop. i ll go with gallop. he s a ken dahl. that s an attack. i like president obama. i don t like his policies. exactly. can i ask you something, were
problem is, if gingrich wins the first bunch of primaries, we re not going to be able to do it. that s why all the money is being spent now. that s why in iowa, newt gingrich is undergoing a carpet bombing from sioux city to dubuque, and his numbers are falling a little bit. but bear in mind, the calendar they re falling a little bit? according to some polls. the rasmussen poll and the ppp poll, one sort of more leaning towards the republicans, one more democrat, both show newt losing a little altitude in iowa. he s taking a tremendous pounding out there, both officially from candidates and unofficially from let s read some of the editorial opinions. here s a scathing editorial of the national review, the old conservative magazine. the editors write, gingrich has always said he wants to transform the country. he appears unable to transform or even govern himself. he should be an adviser to the republican party, but not again its head.
worth going in but what did we make of what many people now say was a mistake? let s take a look at these statistics from a cbs poll last month. it asked whether the outcome of the war was worth the cost in lives and treasure. a strong majority said no, it was not worth it. look at those numbers. bob, i do remember the polling in the beginning of the war, and it was never for a hawkish position. my question to you is philosophical. i ve always taken pride that this country was not an aggressive country. we don t start wars. we defend ourselves. the department of the defense is just that. an institution to defend this country. not in an isolationist way. a thoughtful way. but we re not an aggressive power. this war always looked like to me an invasion of another country that never attacked us, overthrowing the government at our will, using our force, forcing the people of that country at gunpoint to do what we wanted them to do. for many years i considered it an aggressive action. the
let s take a look at that question, with you two gentleman. here we are going into a big weekend. it s the first weekend where it really looks like newt is going to be the front-runner, going through right to january 3rd. and all of a sudden we re hearing from all across the board, especially the intellectuals, like peggy noonan and kathleen kathleen parker. a lot of them are starting to write up now, oh, my god, oh, my god, in the modern lexicon, this guy, newt, might win the nomination. well, i think there s a sense, yes, that he d do that, he d be bad for the party. if you look at our poll, the nbc news/washington journal poll, it gets republicans to focus here on the fact, can he really beat obama? and don t forget, the anti-obama vibe, that sentiment is really what s driving republicans more than anything else. they want to beat obama, who best can do that? there s a sense that newt gingrich has this ceiling, it s dangerous to a lot of establishment republicans. but yet, t