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Election. keith ellison, i think this is consistent with what his tone and tenor is in the way he has an attitude towards the president and midterm elections. >> juan: jesse, a lot of trump supporters saying hey, look, his numbers are going up. you and i always talk about the poll numbers. "washington post" has him at 40% approval. it was 36% in january. you still have a large percentage, 56% to say disapproval. "washington post" internal. >> jesse: the 40% approval they "washington post" it is ...

Presented actually policy specifics from infrastructure, to school choice, to taxes to give people a reason to vote for him. youre always going to have some of that. but any of this other language, i have no idea. >> all right. >> so, jason, let me just ask you kind of the megaquestion as we close here. obviously, theres some polling, both nationally and in key states, like nationally, "the washington post" poll, the abc poll, rather, that shows the race tied. but there are many more polls that ...

I find remarkable your analysis. tell everybody what you just did and with what result. >> we looked at a bunch of polls for various offices over the past several elections looking at polls during the several weeks before the election occurred. each poll has a margin of error. so you can look at that and also look at how close the poll is to what actually happens in the election. so you can calculate an empirical margin of error and how far are they in reality? the empirical margin of error twic...

Points in california. who cares. its 10% of the country -- megyn: californians and new yorkers and the blue people come out and say yes, yes yes. even fox news had a poll out that showed a big lead for president obama in those critical swing states, in florida, virginia and ohio. yet rasmussen is showing a much tighter race. >> its apples and oranges. its a question of who you are measuring. its not a perfect universe. some of these oversampled democrats. some of them undersampled. you should me...

dont feel as though youre doing enough to control gas prices. >> what did the president say? well hear his response. former "news of the world" editor rebecca brooks is arrested. they arrested the former aid and five other people. it stems from the alleged phone hacking scandal that now closed the newspaper. we begin this hour in depth in afghanistan and a reality check on the safety of american troops there. antiamerican protests are boiling up again two days after a killing spree...

zandi and veteran political journalist ron brownstein of the "national journal" and peter baker of the "new york times." im candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." herman cain and michele bachmann were on this show the day after the iowa straw poll in august. she won, he was fifth, but unbowed. >> this campaign has encouraged and our momentum continues to grow. >> reporter: in an august quinnipiac poll, bachmann ranked third among republicans with 12%. cain just 5%. now in...

countries. the announcement comes on the same day france, belgium, and luxembourg agreed to rescue dexia, a major franco belgian bank. a couple of hours ago, i spoke with cnns senior international business correspondent, richard quest. he tells me that what is going on in europe is very similar to what happened in america back in 2008. >> you really dont want the investment bank to fail. why? because a big investment bank failing of this particular time would cause a ripple of crisis o...

analytics chief economist mark zandi and veteran political journalist ron brownstein of the "national journal" and peter baker of the "new york times." im candy crowley, and this is "state of the union." herman cain and michele bachmann were on this show the day after the iowa straw poll in august. she won, he was fifth but unbowed. >> this campaign has encouraged and our momentum continues to grow. >> in an august quinnipiac poll, bachmann ranked third among republicans with 12%. ca...

Enter the no spin zone. "the factor" begins right now. >> im bill oreilly. thanks for watching us tonight. black and white americans differ over president obama. that is the subject of this evenings talking points memo. a new gallup poll, says 88% of african-americans continue to support president obama but just 38% of white americans feel the president is doing a good job. that is a 50 point differential in the presidents job approval rating which is stunning. so what is going on? lets take the...

Enter the no spin zone. "the factor" begins right now. >> im bill oreilly. thanks for watching us tonight. black and white americans differ over president obama. that is the subject of this evenings talking points memo. a new gallup poll, says 88% of african-americans continue to support president obama but just 38% of white americans feel the president is doing a good job. that is a 50 point differential in the presidents job approval rating which is stunning. so what is going on? lets take the...