exists, and also take care of their employees. but this is always tough. i for one am glad that senator gillibrand has been a vocal advocate for standing up for women in a number of places where their needs are not always heard. let me talk about new polling out in iowa. not the horse race poll. we don t talk about that on this show was it s too early. we re going to talk about what democrats are looking for. 83% said they want a candidate who focuses on democrats positive energy, not necessarily on taking the fire to donald trump. 81% want to hear about health care. 80% want to hear about climate change as our first three teams put it, the democratic voter in iowa is positive and very liberal on those two issues. and we saw that in the midterms. democrats took back the house not on a message of trashing everyday. they took it back by talking about health care. it doesn t surprise me that iowa voters would see the same enthusiasm from democrats p
controversy. this is who are people thinking about. don t take this as who will they vote for and who they re likely to support for president. joe biden, you re the only guy ahead of trump in this poll. are democrats choosing a nominee? a good chance to beat trump comes in first. has the right experience. willing to work with the gop comes in third. again if you re joe biden, that describes me. races don t always end as they begin, but if you re joe biden in the beginning those are pretty good numbers in the new poll and these are democrats and democratic-leaning independence and again, this is not a horse race poll and who are you warm toward, and who are you likely to support. you re encouraged by that and bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, cory booker round out the top five there, and i would start as the front-runner. here is the bottom of the pack
horse race poll in alabama, it was a cbs poll a few days ago that showed 71% of likely republican voters in alabama believe that the women are lying. and i don t think you wind up in that kind of situation unless there s somebody out there, in this case steve bannon and his political apparatus, spinning a fairly convincing story, convincing to republican voters, that everything you re seeing on tv is a lie pushed by the mainstream media. patti, to his point, what if roy moore wins? what will that tell you about this messaging, patti? well look, first of all alabama is not the best test case for this. alabama is a very conservative state. you know, a democrat hasn t won statewide in decades. so i don t know if alabama is the best test case. but i will be most interested to see from tonight what women do tonight. i want to see whether they go out and they vote for roy moore, or they, you know, they can t
bill: the former governor of texas rick perry is not a fan of trump. this is donald trump at 24% top left column. wow. the next close competitor, scott walker at 13%. just a specific question about donald trump. why do you believe he s catching fire with many americans? i think polls at this particular point in time, maybe they are snapshots but i know better than to hang my hat on a horse race poll at this time. a lot this is a about a very long process where people will lay out their visions and hopes and optimism for the future.
endorsements but a bit of a dark cloud on the horizon. more on that in just a moment, but, first, his fight for the gop nomination. a new nbc news/ wall street journal poll shows him with a commanding lead over mitt romney. the other candidates trailing far behind. paul steinhauser is in washington. paul, the same poll shows gingrich struggling in a head-to-head race against president obama. tell us about that. that horse race poll and two others indicate the same thing. way ahead in the horse race. look at this, hypothetical matchups next november. president obama versus gingrich and president obama against mitt romney. president obama 11 points ahead of gingrich. among all voters. but, basically, dead even with romney. so, the nbc/ wall street journal poll maybe an electable issue for newt gingrich. you ve seen the democratic national committee go after romney left and right over everything. not so much about gingrich. but yesterday, this is interesting, jessica yellin