the economy is good or excellent. that may not sound like a lot to you, but that number is way, way up from a year ago and it keeps on improving and shows that americans are getting ever more confident by the day in the economy. so the question is, what s going on here? because usually you see these improvement economic numbers now, and that would boost the president s approval rating. there are two competing theories about what s going on. some republicans including mitt romney s former pollster say what is happening here is voters are delinking the economy from the president. those numbers that would normally boost his ratings are no longer boosting them. we may feel more confident about what s going on, but it doesn t mean we like our president more. it s interesting because during the election, some of the exit polling, they blamed the prior administrations for the economic collapse more than they blamed the president. maybe they re not giving him the credit as it s coming back a
the americans now say the economy is good for excellent, that may not sound a lot to you but that number is way, way up from what it was a year ago and shows americans are getting more confident by the day in the economy. the question is what s going on here? because usually you see these improving economic numbers right now and that would boost the president s approval rating. there are two competing theories what s going on with the economic numbers. some republicans say voters are delinking the economy from the president, those numbers that would normally boost his ratings are no longer boosting him. we may feel more confident what s going on but doesn t mean we like our president more. during the election some of the exit polling blamed prior administrations for the economic collapse more than they blamed this president, maybe they re not giving him the credit as it s coming back just like they didn t give him all of the blame. the other theory which is interesting, christine,
who is going to play well with a national audience to the extent democrats can make a focus on him. democrats tried to build and successfully build if you look at the exit polling numbers this idea of a republican war on women during the 2012 campaign. sanford, given his personal problems leaving his wife to settle with maria belen chapur we re showing in the background over his left shoulder, none of those things play well with female voters. you ve seen a democratic aligned super pac with ads featuring a republican female voter in the district saying mark sanford s not my kind of guy. look, this is a problem the republican party didn t want to have. you said the house campaign committee washed their hands. they absolutely did. they essentially said, once the trespassing stuff came out, they said, okay, we re not giving him any money, but he s still going to be a republican, a member of that conference. john boehner, eric cantor, everybody else, at least for a few days is going to hav
party? to be swearing in mark sanford as a member of their caucus? this guy? i wrote a piece today on the the fix on the blog arguing this might be a short-term loss for democrats but a long-term gain which is you have a guy in mark sanford who is not someone who is going to play well with a national audience to the extent democrats can make a focus on him. democrats tried to build and successfully build if you look at the exit polling numbers this idea of a republican war on women during the 2012 campaign. sanford, given his personal problems leaving his wife to settle with maria belon chapport we re showing in the background over his left shoulder, none of those things play well with female voters. you ve seen a democratic aligned super pac with ads featuring a republican female voter in the district saying mark sanford s not my kind of guy. look, this is a problem the republican party didn t want to have. you said the house campaign committee washed their hands. they absolutely
to be swearing in mark sanford as a member of their caucus? this guy? i wrote a piece today on the the fix on the blog arguing this might be a short-term loss for democrats but a long-term gain which is you have a guy in mark sanford who is not someone who is going to play well with a national audience to the extent democrats can make a focus on him. democrats tried to build and successfully build if you look at the exit polling numbers this idea of a republican war on women during the 2012 campaign. sanford, given his personal problems leaving his wife to settle with maria belen chapur we re showing in the background over his left shoulder, none of those things play well with female voters. you ve seen a democratic aligned super pac with ads featuring a republican female voter in the district saying mark sanford s not my kind of guy. look, this is a problem the republican party didn t want to have. you said the house campaign committee washed their hands. they absolutely did. the