want to give him the keys. that s not going to work. 18 months in you own it and if you had a policy at the beginning, like reagan with the tax cuts, he bought it as well. and they were hurt badly, the republicans in the mid-term election. 82, as a result of a weak economy. because he owned that economy. i think what is really interesting is that there is in politics by mid-summer, people perception of the economy is fixed and it carries to the election day. even the numbers between now and then change a bit, it s not going to alter perceptions. we heard earlier there is a poll only 12% of americans think the economy improving. it was twice as high a year ago. that s perfect reflection of the real economy. a year ago, the growth g.d.p. was twice what it was in the quarter that is just the past. that s the impression that is settling in. unchangeable between now and november. that s why democrats are going to lose. bret: bill, it was
president biden to ohio. i read that ohio lost about 160,000 jobs during the obama-biden administration. they are losing 10,000 jobs a visit. maybe they should ask the president and vice president to stay away of the job loss might halt. the economy is hurting him badly. he went to ohio, ted strickland, a big gubernatorial race. if you listen to mitch daniels, the republican governor of indiana, speak, one of his big talking points is indiana is doing better than is neighboring state ohio. apparently west virginia with a democratic governor is doing better than ohio. ohio unemployment rate is 2% higher than west virginia, startling. anyway, the contrast, politic in the indiana were democratic policies of ohio which has been like president obama policies, which daniels says, at the national level. i think ohio will be interesting. if republicans win the governorship and the senatorship in ohio, that s a real, as you say, president obama and vice president biden going there so much, it s
julie, start with you. you hear all the lamenting about this, turning this in to a political issue. too late. it s a political issue. someone needs to step up. we heard obama parsing middle distance on this over the weekend and this weekend saying no regrets but not going any further than that. this is a terrible issue for the democrats. someone needs to step up and clarify where the party stands on this. meanwhile, republicans are fighting with each other, too. pat buchanan said newt gingrich went too far on the issue. now we have gone in a parallel universe. bret: bill? still getting my head around the parallel universe. howard dean says building the mosque, where it is going to be built with the intention behind is it a real afront to people who lost their lives on 9/11. i am happy to agree with howard dean. bret: agreed with senator reid and howard dean. i m a bipartisan kind of guy. [ inaudible ] i like that. howard dean becoming an neokahn. he is happy to take a little
committee and whose district includes khan called for him to be stripped of his american citizenship. bret? bret: thank you. you re welcome. bret: with the poll numbers sinking, the president takes to the suburbs to talk up thealing economy. we talk about it with the fox all-stars when we come back. ñññt2xhhx2thxhú
governor in addition, referendum on the democratic, economic policies. bret: julie, other democrat candidates are having a hard time with the economy and the message perhaps. richard blumenthal in connecticut, candidate there, a democrat, said this about the stimulus. i believe that the stimulus was wrongly structured, because it failed to provide jobs and paychecks to ordinary americans. it unfortunately was inadequately designed to invest in infrastructure and roads and bridges and schools. he said he would vote against it as it was structured. that s an interesting talking point from a democrat. it is. it s certainly a theme that emerging in the campaign. you don t see the democrats running very hard on the stimulus. even today, what struck me about today s event, bret, watching the president, how much new stage craft the white house is doing. we saw in the a.p. poll, he got 41% approval rating for the economy, but his overall approval rating was 49%. and the gap, the differen