the numbers from gallup are terrible for the president. what's the new news on this visit from martha's vineyard. anyone rethinking it? >> well, no. they are saying he is going to go ahead and stay for the entire 10 days. it definitely is risky politically. i think we do have to add the context of the fact that look i was in crawford, texas when the pakistani prime minister was tragically assassinated and president bush had to interrupt a vacation. i was in honolulu with president obama when there was an attempted terror attack in detroit on christmas day a couple years ago. that vacation was interrupted. so my point is that presidents can't get away from the presidency. so, he is still going to be working at least a little here. is he going to have an economic aide here briefing him every day. he is going to have a national security aide john brennan briefing him and making sure he is on top of national security. the optics are very difficult for this president right now. the last thing they wanted was on the day that he lands here for th

the worst level since gallup started to ask that question in 1991. analysts say the nation may be headed for another wave election, that could be bad for both parties. >> the president numbers are bad. congress numbers are worse. it at least gives the white house scenario to mobilize people. against congress. >> this may be why we are starting to hear the democrats like charlie rangel urging the president to tell congress get off the summer break and come back to washington and work on jobs. the white house aides are taking a dim view of that. they would haven't a lot of action. they are content to wait until september to get back to the table on the economic issues. >> late today, is up the senate democrats made announcement about their picks for this supercommittee. >> we are waiting for the republicans to do that. harry reid is going to pick max baucus, john kerry and patty murray. baucus is a centrist and works with republicans on taxes and more in the middle. this could signal that they are looking for a deal. "usa today" poll said six of ten am

. >> if you take gallup. one was ronald reagan he came back and crushed my guy. bill clinton was below 40% and came back and won and crushed dole. >> sean: not this late in the presidency. >> yeah, sure he was. >> sean: first of all, reagan the last year of his before reelect, growth in this country was 7 and 8%. >> believe it or not we were still beating him in february of '84. >> sean: where is the beef bob? >> that's right. the one thing i can lay claim to in my entire political"pç1 career. i think perry coming into this race is going to shake things up clearly. but it is also going to move -- there's a divide in the republican party. i'm not looking for an argument. there was the business establishment group who wanted the debt deal and the tea party people did not. they settled on somebody that nobody liked. my question is whether that divide continues ala goldwater in '64. he took the republican party from the moderate and conservative republican establishment. i think it is possible somebody could do

. >> suarez: nearly ten years after the 9/11 attacks and american wars in two muslim nations, a gallup survey shows strong positive feelings among muslim americans about their prospects in this country. close to 4,000 muslims and more than 850,000 other americans were polled. the findings: more muslim americans-- 6o%-- believed they are thriving in the u.s., more than either protestants or catholics, and just about equal to jews. and 93% thought their fellow muslim americans were loyal to the u.s. muslims' loyalty was shared by smaller majorities of protestants, catholics, and jews. for more on this survey, we go to mohamed yyounis, senior analyst at the gallup center for muslim studies. mohamed, more optimistic about the next five years than other americans, even after everything that's happened in the 10 years since 9/11? >> absolutely. it's important to remember that our point of reference is actually late 2008, when the recession was sort of in full bloom and americans generally had much more negative assessments about their current life and life in five years, so we did see that s

tom. >> i just want to again thank pdk and gallup. i also want to thank you, governor, and governor bush. you were among our best education governors in the last decade, and you have been a real champion for the last six years on the job crisis in america. the way you have connected and passion for the crisis with the opportunity around digital learning i really appreciate. i want to talk about a mistake or at least a mistaken impression that came from this poll. a few minutes ago, before i walked in, i got a headline, a blast that said that america does not support online learning, and they were quoting the survey. i did not think that could be any father from the truth. >> 91% -- in my former business, that was pretty good. >> it is the mistaken conclusion. there was one interesting question about will digital learning allow kids to spend less time at school, and parents were split or slightly negative on that notion of kids spending more time at home. then, the report said david parents do not support digital learning. i think pare

gallup and show them on the screen, gallup released some republican primary data. rick perry, 29% ahead of mitt room romney, by 12 points. it's a flip-flop. sustainable? what is this? is rick perry the new front-runner? >> there's a case for that. this is a new poll, this is a poll less than two weeks since rick perry made it official. it shows rick perry is the national front-runner. a couple of caveats, the nomination isn't decided on a national poll, it's decided on who wins the contests in iowa and new hampshire, so that's important to take into consideration. of course, rudy giuliani, remember, was the national front-runner -- >> you read my mind. >> -- around this point. >> and hillary clinton, by the way, was the national front-runner far later into the fall in 2007 and we know how that turned out. >> maybe if i'm mitt romney i'm feeling pretty good that you aren't the national front-runner just right now, but what it does do it forces mitt romney to almost abandon the nominee-in-waiting strategy he's had where he's campaigning more against barack obama than

according to gallup, mitt romney would beat president obama by 2 percent in a matchup right now. this as the former massachusetts governor takes aim at the president's polices during an interview with our own neil cavuto. listen to this: >> when i go across the country and i sit down with various small business folks, they tell me this has been about the most antibusiness, antiinvestment, antigrowth administration they have ever seen. we need jobs right now. and the president and lauren and other people are saying give us money from rich people. look, people don't want a check. they want a job. martha: meanwhile, texas governor rick perry ties president obama in the latest gallup poll, they're both at 47 percent there. let's bring in brad blakeman, former assistant to president george w. bush and rich lowry, editor of the national review, also a fox news contributor, gentlemen, welcome, good to have you both here. rich, when you look at these numbers, as i said, my first reaction was there are a lot of contenders in the gop field, this is anybody's game at this point. >> i would

as rapidly as it needs to grow. >> reporter: a new gallup poll shows the president approval rating dipped to 39%. the lowest number in more than a year. the midwest swing gives president obama a chance to talk to the same voters his republican challengers have been courting. texas governor rick perry is introducing himself to more eye wan -- iowaens. >> sometimes it takes me a while to get into something, like this presidential race, but let me tell you, when i'm in, i'm in all the way. >> perry made the iowa debut in waterloo last night, the birth place of michele bachmann, the congress woman was there fresh off her straw poll win. >> we see this as the very first step. we don't see this as the ending. this is just the beginning. >> reporter: but the straw polls signaled the end for former minnesota governor tim pawlenty's bid. >> he may throw his support behind perry. the two worked together as governors. president obama is not expected to take on any of his g.o.p. rivals by name, but aides say he will use this bus tour to point out the differences between his take on the economy and th

gallup released numbers yesterday on the 2012 field, comparing barack obama to some of the people. let's go through them. mitt romney, president obama is losing to two points with mitt romney, tied with perry, up two points on paul and up four on bachmann. is this more about the candidates on the republican side or does that tell us about barack obama? >> it tells us about the bad month of august obama has seen. of course -- >> pollsters tend to stay out of the field in august because so many people are on vacation. i give you chuck todd. >> just last week, gallup came out with president obama's approval rating, 39%. these numbers aren't terribly surprising. good news, president obama has a long way to go. we saw harry reid pull out a victory in nevada where he was down considerably more than this. bad news is you have these republicans who right now, it sure looks like a game. >> it certainly seems unlikely that michele bachmann and ron paul are goranering 45% based on their own policies. mark murray, i made one plug, i will make a second plug. read "first read" in the mornings. >

gallup shows they're neck in neck with the president. all are within the margin of error and against michele bachmann the president leads 48 to 44. he leads ron paul 47 to 45. the president's in a dead heat with rick perry and against front runner mitt romney he's behind 46% to romney's 48%. we have karen fin yi and a former aide to john boehner. >> how much trouble is the president really in? >> realistically speaking these are not numbers that you are not very happy with. again, as you pointed out in the intro, it is a snapshot in time, particularly because it's one thing to poll these head to heads in the abstract. it's really a different thing when you've had a head to head season of campaigning and then you poll. as of right now you're comparing the two without being able to compare them on the issues. obviously that's what the campaign is for. i think until we have that it's going to be really hard to tell what people really are thinking. >> mitt romney announced he's going to unveil a jobs plan the same week that the president say

gallup, overall approval rating, 39%, and then 26% and gallup a new number, 11% of the country -- >> right. >> so the good news for the president, he has plenty of time top recuperate. he didn't get knocked down. he's still standing. bad news, quite a hole to climb out from. >> now, the president announced he was going to announce a jobs plan after labor day. let's go over this talking about has he's going to announce when he returns from this vacation. >> i wish that the speaker had taken me up on a grand bargain to deal with our long-term debt and deficits. we still have the opportunity to fix that. it's not too late. i will be putting forward a plan that will be very similar to the plan that i put forward to the speaker. >> so it seems like from that we're going back to the idea of a grand bargain. this big tax cuts, tax increases potentially spending cuts. can that go through congress? >> it probably might not go through congress, but the white house sees it as a winning political argument. we talked about taking a gut punch the past couple of month, but they believe this long-te

and as you said the new "usa today"/gallup poll said that 51% of the respondents say that the president should not be re-elected but he faces an unnamed responder. and also congress is getting a lot of the blame. so we are starting to see the themes come s coming out in 20, the economy and the downgrade. >> and now in several swing states the gop candidates are hammering him on the right, but take a listen to this though? >> the fact nthat we cannot dea with the issues is because of lack of leadership. and the leadership starts at the top. >> for the first time in the history of america lost the aaa rating and it happened under president barack obama. >> well, we have a president who is asleep at the switch. >> what is interesting is that as we watch everybody out there on the stump and congresswoman bachmann who voted no about the debt deal and is fine to go out there to talk about who is to blame, and any way that the president is planning to get a hold of this while he goes out on the campaign trail? >> well, there is certainly enough blame to go around. you heard the president yeste

seven that leaves just fourteen percent who actually approve of congress' performance and a grandee gallup poll shows president obama's approval rating at its lowest point just thirty eight percent like i said not a good sign for them or for us so one reaction of course is to get angry another could be to turn that anger into comedy take me to influence month in his recent video over the debt ceiling debate. the student government the united states government know what point six trillion dollars be no more critical it will be cut off a long time before it all of us feel to do is perilous. so you do some we voted for your because we were both gay rights marijuana legalized all of these other things a little concerned about how can we get rolled more money for schools to pass this can't even balance a checkbook a checkbook b. this is something every american has to go through every week we've got to figure out what we're going to pay what we've got to put off a little bit. our well we love that video so much that we does that here some more so joining me is comedian felonious monk thanks so

with me, chris solizza. >> love it. >> the daily gallup tracking poll i hate. it's almost like an ekg. but the upside of it, they get all of this data state-by-state data, so they're able to do a month-long look. >> this is six months. >> six months. so they're able to do an average. >> it's a lot of interviews. >> a lot of interviews and a much more credible thing. here are the states on here. most of them are not surprising. i would say the most surprising is arizona. how seriously do we take it? is this one of those states that's a not there yet but? >> not there yet but. in 2008, i think if john mccain, arizona senator, had not been the nominee, given what we know about the electorate in 2008, we could have seen barack obama win. >> like indiana or north carolina. >> or a north carolina. i don't see it happening this time. yes, the latino vote is big in that state. yes, we expect it to go heavily for him, but i don't think it's there yet. >> iraaarizona, it's going to g before texas becomes a swing state. let's go on the other side of, of these ten, and let

they can have both. >> i want to say thanks to pdk and gallup. i also want to thank you, governor, and governor bush. you or the best education governors in the last decade. you have been a real champion for the last six years on the drop out crisis in america. the way you have connected a passion for the crisis with digital learning i really appreciate. i want to talk about a mistake, at least a mistaken impression that came from this poll. achaemenids ago before i walked in i got -- a few minutes ago before i walked in i got a blast the says america does not support all light burning. they were reporting this survey. i do not think that could be farther from the truth. there was one interesting question about will digital learning allow kids to spend less time at school. parents were split or were slightly negative on that notion of kids spending more time at home. [laughter] then the report said, maybe parents do not support digital learning. au contraire. i think parents appreciate the custodial aspect of school. [laughter] what parents and t

last week h hit 39% in the gallup poll. no president has hit 39%. hit under 40. i at this point and been reelected since 1948 and try as he might i don't think barack obama is going to be able to pull it off. >> bret: karl rove and bill burton, thanks for being with us. up next, presidential politics with rick santorum. we'll be right back. also get a free flight. you know that comes with a private island. really? no. it comes with a hat. you see, airline credit cards promise flights for 25,00miles, but... [ man ] there's never any seats for ,000 miles. frustrating, isn't it? but that won't happen with the capital one venture card. you can book any airline anytime. hey, i just said that. after all, isn't traveling hard enough? ow. [ male announcer ] to get the flights you want, sign up for a venture card at capitalone.com. what's in your wallet? uh, it's okay. i've played a pilot before. oh, there's a prize, all right. [ male announcer ] inside every box of cheerios are those great-tting little o's made from carefully selected oats that can help lower cholester.

and gallup has new numbers out tonight that are stunning. if you're on the president's re-election team you have to look at these and say whoa, you think he's got a political win, you think they think they have a political win on the job numbers. the opinion of the president's handling of creating jobs, 29% of americans approve, 65% disapprove. his overall handling of the economy, 26% of americans approve. 71% disapprove. to get 65%, 71% disapproval, that's not just republicans, that's a lot of democrats and independents. >> absolutely. and i hear you make this point all the time which is you've not seen a president get reelected with unemployment where it's at. these are the numbers republicans are pointing to and these are numbers that concern the president's advisers. what they can point to is that the republican brand went down after the debt talks. americans do not like gridlock and fighting do not like gridlo and fighting and that hurt the brand for republicans and that the president remains personally popular in their view. those are

alex, if you get on the global warming, a good issue with the republican base, but look at this gallup poll. do you believe increasing earth's temperature is due to human activities? 352% say yes. natural changes 43%. so a majority of americans say humans are contributing to global warming. governor perry clearly questions and disputes that. if you look at breakdown bipartisanship it gets fascinating. global warming seriousness. is it exaggerated? 22% of democrats say. so 43% of end participants and 67% of republicans. so what governor perry is saying has clear appeal to republicans. but is he risking his potential support among independents and even conservative democrats by saying that? >> in all these issues you have to say what he believes. that's what he believes. it's even worse if you're inauthentic. but that's the concern about rick perry, one is that he appeal to the base but in a general election he could become george mcgovern. or even barry goldwater. candidates with intense support but unable to reach across the middle. and you ack sent that when you shoot from the lip as

in this polling, your dad gets 4% in the gallup poll. the top six, you've got perry with 29%, romney in second with 17%. ron paul's moved up to 13% of the support. bachmann falls to 10, and you have herman cain and your dad newt gingrich tied. how does he turn that around if you consider he's campaigning in places like hawaii, last weekend, which isn't exactly a battleground state? >> he's in new hampshire today. he's in manchester, and he'll be in georgia this weekend. big georgia fish fry in perry, georgia, and he'll be in georgia for the weekend for that. he is campaigning in the first state. i think there are a couple things. one, the last poll shows there's still a lot of fluidity. you mingsed perry coming in, romney moving down, bachmann moving around. you're seeing a lot of movement between the people. a recent cnn poll, if you look at those that are running, dad's at 8%. so a much different number. but we're really in, i think, the kind of fun and games, kind of the entertainment stage in terms of most people aren't really watchi

. >>> president obama's approval rating falls below 40 percent for the first time with gallup. lou dobbs react toss that. >> michelle malke nevment says the administration was dealt an embarrassing blow last week on its attempt to curtail oil and gas exploration. we'll have a fair and balanced debate on that claim. >>> a 16-year-old goes swiming in a lake and winds up dead, thanks to a brain eating ameba. dr. michael baden joins us live to tell us how that happens. see you top of the 1:00. jenna: america's asking about the economy and back with us, we now have economist mark zandi, chief of moody's analytics. mark, we certainly have a lot of questions, first to the extension of the payroll tax credit and also the extension of unemployment. a lot of our viewers have the question about where we get the money to do that if we're also in a time where we're cutting so many programs. is the money actually available to do that? >> yeah, that's a great question. we'll have to borrow the money, so that would add to the decifit in the near term. but i think we could and should pay for it

but a new gallup poll shows 83% of liberal democrats approve of his performance. michael, what do you make of this? >> there's an old rap player, i'm not a player, i just crush a lot. despite the nastyness, he remains cool and centered, literally in the center. if reagan was the teflon president, it seems obama may be the titanium president. and if clinton was the comeback kid, he's the never say die kid. though he takes tremendous hits from both the left and the right. he seems to appeal to people who thinks look at the end of the day, he had little choice to do what he did. i don't like the deal. it was forced upon him, but at the end of the day we feel he has the best ideals. >> john, are you surprised that the poll says his base is still overwhelmingly with him? >> i'm not exactly sure what you're saying there. >> i'm seeing a poll that says 83%. >> he's lost 7% support from the liberal base. >> 7% from june and up -- hold it. >> al, let my finish. >> don't distort the poll. 7% from june, up 2% from july. read the whole poll. >> he's lost support in the libera

a new gallup poll put the guy willing to say things against the tea party, jon huntsman, put him at 1%. i guess george pataki, get in there to split up the 1% maybe, try to get a piece of that? you cannot go anywhere in national republican politics, certainly not in republican presidential politics as anything remotely centrists. who are they again, they are these guys at the bottom of that list. why is that? mathematically why is that? the tea party is such a new phenomenon and so unprecedent, nobody has dealt with anything like this. maybe there's a fear factor among politics, even though they may be small and unpopular, they are getting more disrespected by most of the american people, politics are scared of the tea party because the tea party is such a new thing, but if you care to look at the data about it, the only other thing that is as clear about the tea party right now, the only thing as clear as that is how not new they are. from the people who have been studying these folks over time, early on tea partiers were often described as non-partisan political. they were partisans

forest, how do you explain this kind of character now caught in the gallup polls. the front runner in the republican primary possess. >> david barton is a major player in the texas gop and now in the national stage. he was a vice chairman on the texas primary for nine years. he is nearly constantly on tour, speaking to church groups and political organizations. it is wildly unorthodox view of history saying founding fathers were conservative, evangelical christians, very much like david barton. so rick perry knows who david barton is. pretty much everybody does in texas who is engaged in politics. so yeah, i mean, i think rick perry knows who david barton is. and he knows david barton's views and he is more than just comfortable with them. he has his own politics and policies. >> i think it is important that we understand that the host of this is a big financial supporter of perry. look at this, i think he contributed over a million dollars and he is called to action retreat. there is a host and there is more than 1 to 3 million to perry's campaign. and you are tel

now, for the top story tonight, new gallup poll saying a number of republican challengers might defeat president obama in 2012. among register the voters mitt romney gets 48%. the president 46%. governor rick perry ties the president 47%, to 47%. ron paul very competitive. ron paul 45%, obama 47%. bachmann very close. obama 48%. bachmann 44%. what about this g.e. deal? i mean, is it me? is it me, mr. rove? you can tell me. is it me? >> look, american companies have the right to partner with whomever they want. i'm worried about two things on this. we know the practice of chinese companies is to require as a price of doing business with them, of being their partner. that you surrender, that you turn over valuable technology. that you, in essence, help their economy along by giving them your intellectual property rights. second of all, g.e. is talking about partnering with a company that does a lot of work with the chinese military. so, g.e.'s sophisticated avionics is going to be put into the hands of a company in essence supplies the chinese military including air force and navy with v

10 years, they expect the largest internal migration in history there is a downside to all of this gallup and growth and you can see it, a thicket ago, bikes dominated the streets. today, everyone would like a car. -- a decade ago, bikes dominated the streets. the government has limited car ownership but in that edict might be too little, too late. the growth model could derail all of the economic gains of the past two decades. and this is a part in the heart of shanghai. three years ago, this is little more than an urban jump that was left behind when the world expo site was left behind and gutted. kongjian yu is the founder of turenscape, one of the most acclaimed design firms. he is an advocate for environmental sustainability and was brought in literally to change the landscape. >> every contaminated water and soil. in china, 75% of the water. all of the major leagues in china and the rivers, this runs through the city's and they have been contaminated. we decided to make this park a demonstration. how can you clean the water? you use the landscape. you use vegetation. do not use sewa

you rightly noted the gallup numbers. 26% approval on the economy. look, there are definitely things out there that will hatch on to. there will be some things to go after. is buzz fundamentally this election is about the economy. >> that's a political argument. i'm trying to figure out who this guy is. let me go back to julie. why does he use these terms, i don't like the voting rights act, i don't like the constitutional basis for the civil rights act? i'm talking up secessionism, i'm a states' rights guy? why does he talk like that? i just want to know why he uses those words over and over. >> he believes in that, chris, and you're right, he has interesting points. rick perry, unlike mitt romney and other candidates, hasn't been vetted nationally. he has it answer these if he is going to be taken seriously as a candidate. he's only been in texas, not on the national stage. we're going to hear what he thinks, we'll see him respond, and it will be a fascinating process. he hasn't been through that wringer of the national vetting to run for president

he's not only not leading but rick perry is ahead of him by 12 points in the gallup poll that came out today. and we've got geared to make jon huntsman a 1 percenter. i mean, to have ron paul polling at 13%, and huntsman at 1%, all of the republican dynamics working in that direction makes it hard for me to believe that the adults in the republican party are not thinking that you guys are about to do a christine o'donnell. >> makes a lot of people was in because you see stories in the wall street journal and conservatives press of paul ryan, who's shut down the rumors and governor christie of new jersey and others stepping in, so it does make people nervous. but i think i think the reason perry has surged ahead is because there was a feeling that the field wasn't complete. i don't know if his lead over romney is one he can sustain, but he certainly has generated a lot of excitement, and it's not just from tea party-like voters. >> what way was the field complete then complete with rick perry. somebody who didn't believe in evolution or global warming, the only thing you get with him is

obama is now at 39% approval according to the gallup poll. i just put a video on dickmorris.com where i analyze that. when you go to the gallup numbers the internals and say could you approve of his per -- do you approve of his perform on the economy 26th%. job creation 29%. federal deficit 23%. what other issues are there? from the economy you are scoring in the mid 20s and your job approval in the high 30s. i think obama may look back on august of 2011 as the days when his approval rating was high. >> sean: i read the poll are talking about. i went over important states. for anybody in a presidential election. one is florida, 29 electoral votes of the must-win state for obama at this point. right now he has a 51% disapproval rate in florida. a state that he won 51-48. in michigan right now he won 57-41. gone democratic in the last five presidential elections. he has a negative job approval rating. 65% of that state. pennsylvania, same story. iowa, same story. these are must-win states for him. >> look at the states where unemployment has in

look at economic indicators, economic confidence, in gallup, latest numbers, the lowest of the obama presidency. people don't think the economy is heading in the right direction. >> okay, you made your point. steve? >> listen -- >> jobs? >> it's jobs, it's the economy. the question on election day, whether people feel like thing are getting better or whether people feel like -- same thing we're getting worse. it's going to be a very hard day that day. >> i think they look at the back story and the future is the future. you have kids, wives, children to raise. a lot of people got retirement living to get through. you need certain things. who's your best bet for president? enlightened self-interest. vote for, let say, romney. the guy from texas. rick perry? >> elections are about two things. referendum on the future and on the incumbent. >> talk about the future. >> you don't get to do that. >> why is your guy better than obama? >> when running for re-election it's a referendum on the track record whoever's running. >> pretend i'm asking the question. what does your crowd offer for the

he is at 40% now with the gallup numbers. if you drop ten points, there is something wrong. if you drop ten points in the midst of what the public is beginning to perceive as a crisis. how could he win later? he has enough out of this deal to identify himself with someone an interest in deficit reduction and the ability to cre it a compromise and avoid default. so, in the long-term, he can win but right now, he has to be a net loser. >> republicans? >> republicans, forced an argument. in the initial part of that argument, they required the president to do something he didn't want to do, tie a debt ceiling extension to deficit reduction. that's a win. but, in the process, they lost ground with independents and their base may find this deal less satisfying the deeper they look at it. winner now, potential loser later. >> what about the tea party? >> tea party won on direction but probably lost on details. they forced an argument. republicans carried out that a debt ceiling would not be done. oen a drexel side, they forced a new direction. on the details, they will be less sati

and gallup. i also want to the thank you, governor, and governor bush, because you were among our best education governors in the last decade and have been a champion on the dropout crisis in america and the way you've connected the passion with that crisis with the opportunity around digital learning, i really appreciate. i want to talk about a mistake or at least a mistake in an impression that came from this poll. few minutes ago, before i walked in, i got a headline, an e blast that said america doesn't approve of online learning and they were quoting this survey. >> 91% is pretty good. >> here's the mistake in conclusion. there was one interesting question about, will digital learning allow kids to spend less time at school? and parents were split or slightly negative on that notion of kids spending more time at home, and then the report said, well, maybe parents don't support digital learning. i think parents really appreciate the custodial aspect of school, right? and as the governor said,

new numbers from the "usa today" gallup poll. asked if registered voters think most members of congress deserve re-election, only 21% said yes. 70% said get rid of them all. then you asked them, when it's your member of congress, here we go again. more slightly forgiving. more than slightly. 54% said their own congressperson deserved re-election. just 34%, about one-third, said that member of congress shouldn't be remembered or brought back into office. similar to what we've seen before in wave elections. susan, analyze this. the fact that 54% said i'll keep my own person in congress, man or woman, democrat or republican, is not enough to prevent a wave, right? >> no. about where things were in 1994 when we had a big wave. democrat plus the house and senate. about where we in 2006, things went the other way. seems like an okay number. it is in fact a terrible number when it comes to re-election for congress. for your own member of consequence. >> what does this tell you? to ron in a minute. seems to me there's no such thing as bo

the gallup daily tracking poll has him bouncing between 39 and 41% and all the other polls have his job approval rating down to about in the lower 40s. and the american people are upset and they are angry and they are frustrated, and they are anxious. is the proper word. and so i think that they would -- if president obama were to come in for his review, they would say, buddy, you've got some work to do. >> undoubtedly. and i was looking at those poll numbers, i was thinking to myself, even as someone who is generally supportive of this president, it would be hard for me if a pollster said, what do you think about the economy, you'd have to not be paying attention to the realities of the world to give anyone a good grade on that. but that said, what do you make of senator coburn's comments about president obama? i honestly haven't been able to bring myself off the ceiling enough to make a cogent response to this. >> when i saw the comment, i thought, advantages as an african-american male? please, senator coburn, point out what those advantages are, because there are a slew of african-a

, and in 2003, you had a gallup poll that found that -- i think it was 53 or 52 percent saying there was a need for a third party. so america constantly flirts with the idea of a third party presidential candidate. what i think makes this different, if you look at the gallup numbers in particular, is what -- where the ideological hunger for a third party candidate comes from. back in 2003 it was overwhelmingly from the left, a two -- 52 percent wanted an independent candidate and today it's even, you have 52 percent who want a independent constant date and 51 percent of conservatives. that's a pretty dramatic swing. martha: indeed it is. crist han, your -- chris han, your initial take. >> third parties are like jello, there'sal room for another candidate, but it rarely fulfills you. i think what we're going to see here is there probably will be a third party candidate coming from the right, based on some of the numbers i've seen both in what caddell's study showed and some other polls that have been out there. there is definitely angst among republicans. we see this every couple of w

a mere 26% of americans agree with his handling of the economy, according to the latest gallup poll. >> we need jobs bad. >> reporter: in atlanta, a small army of the unemployed come here for jobs. >> i want to get a job to support my family. >> reporter: the event sponsored by the congressional black caucus. >> they're all looking for work. they want a job. >> reporter: for the white house it is an uncomfortable contrast. americans working to find jobs as president obama kicks off his vacation on exclusive martha's vineyard. even at this getaway, he can't escape the criticism. >> i don't think he is doing particularly well on the unemployment situation. >> reporter: the white house is working on the economic plan he is unveiling next month. this is one presidential vacation with plenty of baggage. forecast for the president's time on martha's vineyard, cloudy skies with some storms ahead. lynn. >> all right, brian mooar from washington. thank you. >>> well, u.s. officials tell nbc news intelligence reports indicate libyan leader muammar qadhafi is making preparations to leave libya.

a new gallup poll finds just 13%. like one in seven, approve of the job congress is doing. one in seven. you see people, six out of seven don't like this congress. tying the record all-time. 84% disapprove. that's a record high disapproval for the congress. we'll be right back. ♪ [ jim ] i need to push out a software upgrade. build a new app for the sales team in beijing. and convince the c.e.o. his email will find him... wherever he is. i need to see my family while they're still awake. [ male announcer ] with global services from dell, jim can address his company's i.t. needs through custom built applications, cloud solutions and ongoing support in over 100 countries. so his company sees results. and jim sees his family. dell. the power to do more. >>> now we'll have some fun. welcome back to "hardball." how strong of a candidate will governor rick perry of texas actually turn out to be? he certainly caused a lot of excitement since his official announcement on saturday. already some of his controversial statements on the trail out there are raising eyebrows. he said, b

a "usa today"/gallup poll. which i think indicates that the american people may have a higher economic literacy rate than congress. it says that 41% believe that the debt deal will make the economy worse. 33% say it will have no effect. only 17% were tricked into thinking that the debt deal will make the economy better. where do we go from here, bob? and given that the deal is done, what maneuvering room is there for the government on the economy? >> well, lawrence, hopefully -- remember congress is now back home. they are hearing hopefully very loud and clearly from their constituents that jobs and wages and growth have to be front and center. now, that may mean -- and i'm being perhaps a cockeyed optimist here. that may mean that when congress reconvenes in five weeks it is possible for the president to go back and say, we need a jobs package now. you mentioned economic literacy. the public knows what's going on. the public knows that consumers are 70% of the economy. consumers cannot spend. they are worried

a new gallup poll showing that he will run second to mitt romney knocking michele bachmann to fourth, and now over to the political panel. joy ann reid is a managing editor at thegrio.com, and with us from washington michael sheerer is the correspondent from "time" magazine, and you have a column with the headline why rick perry is the second coming of george w. bush, joy ann? is he really? >> well, yes, because he sounds and gestures and kind of acts like george w. bush and it is uncanny because if you are listening to him speak and not watching the tv, it sounds like george w. bush, and aside from the similarities and he was george bush's lieutenant governor and the longest serving governor of texas in ten years, be he has a lot of symmetry with bush and heavily courting the evangelical vote, and that christianity is central to the campaign and same as bush. on the downside, soft on immigration law. so he was not supportive of having an arizona-style immigration law in texas and on the negative side, he faces the possibility that the tea par whoi loves him says i'm for the secession