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hello. i m victor blackwell. welcome to cnn newsroom. four weeks before the election and cnn has a new poll for what americans think of their government right now. views of joe biden has improved over the summer. it s up to 44%, up from 38% in july. but the national outlook on the economy is still bleak. only 22% of americans rate economic conditions as good. most americans have no confidence that biden, congress, really the federal government as a whole, are doing enough to address the economy or the other major issues facing the country. cnn political director david tallian is here to break down the new numbers. let s start with the approval rating. 44%, better than july. still not where he wants to be, under water right now. how could this impact the midterms? take us through the numbers. here s the 44%. you d rather be on the uptick than the decline. biden will take this. but it s not necessarily where a president would like to be this close to the midterm elect ....
and you just watch it and shake your head. it s been kind of painfully revealing to watch, but i think the reason he isn t doing so well is because of those last two debates. don t you think? for his part, speaker gingrich equated romney with president obama calling them the two twins of the establishment and accused romney of running a big lie campaign. we can t beat the money power romney himself. we can t beat the dishonest of his campaign by ourselves. we need witness who are prepared to go out and prepared to stand for conservatism and prepared to tell the truth and we need to run a big truth campaign that beats the big lie campaign. jim acosta is following the romney campaign. let s take a peek and share the video of mitt romney joking with reporters on the campaign flight this morning, throwing bags of chips around, carrying a birthday cake. the images of a confident man. what are his people saying he needs to do as we show the pictures now? can t hear his ....
People who vote for you didn t add up to 1%. kimberly: can i say something significant about this. somebody in the top list is running for president of the united states. pretty cool newt! greg: amazing. kimberly: tied for donald. bob: who is number one? kimberly: barack obama. greg: every president is. right? bob: richard nixon wasn t. kimberly: bush is number two. beat out clinton. what do you say about that? bush beat clinton. bob: i think bush is they love him in retirement. eric: i don t see walter mondale on there. bob: this is getting near the end of the year. we ve had a wonderful year so far. waiting for someone to bring the shot at. 100 shows and nobody braised that. now you did. greg: we are close in age somewhat. in the 70s it was actors, john wayne. remember john wayne was up there. eric: ronald reagan. bob: the marlboro man until he died of lung cancer. ....
bob: no some way it s not bad to happen to him. i think he wins either way. the republicans would say what is your answer. we have a problem here. the economy, look how much better it s gotten than before. the expectations are so low eric: isn t that pathetic? kimberly: he has to peak at the right time. eric: that is what we have to look forward to? bob: reagan in 84, the expectations were so low off of a 10% unemployment he cleaned us. andrea: if obamacare is repealed the republicans will step up like they have done and say rather than reform the system, let s do the small ball and take it on piece by piece instead of a massive takeover. eric: he turned things ....
bob: when people, all the people who vote for you didn t add up to 1%. kimberly: can i say something significant about this. somebody in the top list is running for president of the united states. pretty cool newt! greg: amazing. kimberly: tied for donald. bob: who is number one? kimberly: barack obama. greg: every president is. right? bob: richard nixon wasn t. kimberly: bush is number two. beat out clinton. what do you say about that? bush beat clinton. bob: i think bush is they love him in retirement. eric: i don t see walter mondale on there. bob: this is getting near the end of the year. we ve had a wonderful year so far. waiting for someone to bring the shot at. 100 shows and nobody braised that. now you did. greg: we are close in age somewhat. in the 70s it was actors, john wayne. remember john wayne was up there. eric: ronald reagan. bob: the marlboro man until he died of lung cancer. ....