bret: right. that s one we need to watches through the course of the evening. here is another exit poll number that was interesting to me. hurricane sandy, fully 42% of those responding to this first round in the exit polling said it was important, it was a reason, one of the reasons for their vote. that s more than one might have thought hurricane sandy didn t effect 42% of the country. those people are going by and large for obama pretty big. the question then arises, okay, well how many people were for him anyway? we don t know. it s sort of interesting. what it tells us, we can t tell. exit polls can only tell you so much. it s interesting. megyn: we have been talking about how these exit polls are not necessarily to be trusted entirely. it would be helpful if we explain that a little bit. brit, you were on the air back in 2004 when we got information in and back then they were saying that john kerry was way ahead, he was way ahead. brit: he was winning virginia and all the
to with the exit polling. the 15% number, i think, could actually be significant because on its face it does seem like a small number. but at the margins perhaps the storm did have a tiny bit of effect, to kirsten s point. but look, you know, this president really hasn t demonstrated much leadership at all, so the idea that he swoops in during a storm and actually does the job that we hired him to do, i mean, megyn, this is why you hire a president. this is the bare minimum of what a president should do in a national crisis or a natural disaster is to do what he did, and maybe it just seems so refreshing that we finally saw him doing what we hired him to do that it kind of got people maybe to take a second look. i do think that the storm threw a monkey wrench in mitt romney s momentum because it disrupted the storyline, and i think that bipartisan photo op with chris christie also kind of damaged mitt s narrative, that he was the only one that could work across the aisle with other
the more they fight that fact, the longer you will have results like this. promoting riskal responsibility only represents the white male brand. the race is over. we are discussing demographics. unwaivering supporter from barack obama, no doubt about it. right! i am from the great state of ohio. we only have a minute. but we are going to have you back. okay. i have a lot to say tonight. is that, it looked like in the early exit polling that president obama was seen as more capable on foreign affairs. he used that in his campaign, taking out of osama bin laden and then libya happened and benghazi. how do you reconcile? i think that people saw him as a leader, i think they you know, i like to say, as you know, i work a lot in africa. people don t care so much about foreign policy until they see a tank coming up their driveway. it is not the main concern of the american people
obama to congratulate him on his victory. his supporters and his campaign also deserve congratulations. i wish all of them well, but particularly the president, the first lady and their daughters. this is a time of great challenges for america [applause] and i pray that the president will be successful in guiding our nation. [applause] jon: fox news exit polling finding most voters think the country is heading in the wrong direction, and yet they gave the president a second term. maybe it s because of this: after four years under president obama, most still blame our current economic problems on president bush. charlie hurt is a columnist for the washington times. does that explain what happened last night, charlie? i think to some degree, it certainly does. because president obama s campaign, you know, four years after running the most positive, soaring, hopeful campaign ran a
it was 19 percent in 2012. steve: what else you have got. right track and wrong track. 52 percent of the ones we spoke to said the country is on the wrong track but voting in president obama? and 46 percent said the country was going in the right direction. gretchen: why, they are blaming george bush. that was effective campaign strategy. i have to look down at all of the numbers. 53 percent said they blamed bush for the current economic problems and 38 percent blamed president obama. steve: it sounds like so many numbers of the exit polling parrot the main stream media. we were handed a tough road can slog. next thing people hear it and they think it.