progress on those issues. alan colmes is host of the alan colmes show and my guest now. >> welcome back. megyn: thank you v.. it's a pleasure to see you again. 70% say he has failed to solve our problems or made them worse. poll change. >> polls change all the time. megyn: over a year before the election, but if you're advising president obama, how do you get him to turn this around? >> >> i would say stay the course. my advice is, hey, did you see that republican debate last night? you're fine. megyn: you weren't threatened? is. >>59% don't blame obama for the economy and 61% say he inherited the economic problems from george west w. bush, so i can sw you polls that would mitigate -- megyn: i think you're right, but the thing that interested me more was the independent numbers because everybody looks at those. he's losing some support on the left, i'm sure you've seen that. >> but where are they going to