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And why we see some of these sagging approval ratings for the president. >> yeah, i like that as a kind of monocausal theory here. first of all, it jives with just my own personal, like feeling thermometer. i was feeling really psyched in may and june and then really upset that delta was reeking havoc in august and september. in some ways, thats a positive story for the white house which is to the extent you can get the country vaccinated and commune suppression suppressed that you have a june n...

Approving of his job. a better situation that formal president donald trump ever had in his presidency in our poll. >> we should point out that 60% of americans approve of withdrawing from afghanistan, its just the way he handled it is only 25%. and its a fascinating partisan divide. 88% versus 88%, democrats and republicans, approval and disapproval of the biden record. we also see a really sharp partisan divide on whether they want democrats or republicans to run congress. >> andrea, even furt...

Hurt him more than other cand daits. but, look. these still on our nbc/"wall street journal" poll the most popular republican candidate in terms of feeling thermometer. for someone to dismiss him, is premature. but donald trump is jgenerating heat with his rhetoric. ted cruz is generating heat with his ideology. theres room for maybe one more person. its either marco rubio or ben carson fighting for that third spot. >> weve got 50 days to go. a lot can change. >> you mentioned the national secur...

It. and people are a little shocked about what just happened. so no surprise. >> fred, we talked about this before. sometimes people wont say to a live caller what they might call on the internet, because there was an internet flash poll that indicated a higher number of republicans were supportive of trump. that is what some people will ask me, could this be one of those case where is that the undecideds maybe doesnt want to tell a live poller what they think. >> i do think theres some of that....

Former secretary of state hillary clinton. senator elizabeth warren and president obama round out the top four. governor christies position dips when only republicans are polled, drops to eighth behind the list of candidates behind the partys presidential nomination in 2016. first thing is first, what on earth is a temperature meter or whatever were calling this? >> yes. so they call this the feeling thermometer. were into feelings and we ask you how do you feel about these politicians. so 0 is ...

Pro-obama than they do pro-romney from october. up for grab voters now the job approval rating of the president 48% to 41%. the feelings to the president 46% to 29% positive to negative. but look at this. mitt romneys feeling thermometer was 22%/49%. this is about 10% of the electora electorate, people undecided or only lean obama or lean romney. you look at those numbers and it tells you what, fred? >> i look at those numbers and its going to be a very close election. every pundit, pollster, an...

Policy but they liked him or had good feelings towards him. this poll shows 47% has a positive feeling towards the president and 40% say they have negative feeling. take us into that number. >> those are the worst numbers on his feeling thermometer we had since he was president. one thing that is important to point out that we surveyed president obama on a host of professional and also personal issues and he still remains likable and his likability number has gone down over the past few months b...