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Analyst. we do think this is connected to all things. so lets go back to our poll. two members of our bipartisan polling team, fred yang and republican pollster michael roberts of public opinion strategy. so michael, lets remind people of these numbers again. favor overall, 25%, oppose 57%. with a fairly high no opinion, i want to ask both of you this. what do we make of the nearly 20% who wouldnt give an opinion on this? mike, im going to start with you, then fred. >> i think youve got a 2-da...

All of this to say, do not dismiss dr. carson in this race. joining me now, two member of our bipartisan polling team. bill, let me start with you, its your party. ben carson, look, ive had plenty of people throw herman cain at me, rudy guiliani at me, hillary clinton polls at me. meaning each one of those polls, our poll at this point in time, had people that ended up not winning the nomination on top. should we just toss carson aside, or is this more real than we might think? >> well, first, i...

Approval numbers are up and doing well and welcomed by the party and outside, i think she would be wise to embrace it still. >> lawrence, very quickly. its an easy way to look at this. one half of our "wall street journal" polling team will say presidential job approval might be the single most important number even in 16. i can tell you if it is 48 or above for obama, advantage democrats. 45 to 48 range it is a coin flip election and under 45 advantage republicans. thats the bottom line. i thin...

Would be wise to embrace it still. >> lawrence, very quickly. its an easy way to look at this. one half of our "wall street journal" polling team will say presidential job approval might be the single most important number even in 16. i can tell you if it is 48 or above for obama, advantage democrats. 45 to 48 range it is a coin flip election and under 45 advantage republicans. thats the bottom line. i think that as long as it goes to that number if the president is sitting where he is at. 47 to...

Straw poll. and ipo participating%deñ. some people like to say the straw poll doesnt matter, why are we doing it? im here to tell you we douz because we believe you matter. at cpac, your voice is heard and your opinions count. id also like a give a special thanks to kevin quinnly and nate land, part of our polling team in this effort. before we get to the winners of the presidential straw poll, wed like to review with you some of the demographics from the poll and in keeping with the spirit and...

Of his performance, 50%. and for the third straight poll the presidents approval rating among democrats is under 80%. that is sort of a yellow flag here for the white house. well get more into it in a minute. a third of americans, 30%, believe the country is headed in right direction. 6 2 persian say the nation is on the wrong track. he had to come to cambridge to find democratic pollster peter hart, one half of our polling team, a visiting lecturer at the harvard kennedy school of dwoft. mr. ha...

Principle stands and sometimes have you to take a short-term political hit to move the country forward. >> speaking of honesty and trustworthiness, we just got fox news polls in moments ago which well bring you shortly. wow. this is not good news for the white house. gentlemen, thank you both so much. we recently brought you the powerful story of the phoenix police officers who went beyond the call of duty for a 5-year-old girl. look at this picture. who lost her police officer dad to a hit-an...

Person. and it could have been with the analytics team, regular polling team, through door knocking. but every time you had a contact with anybody in america, that was cataloged. is that fair to say? >> yeah, and i think that there are interesting applications of both cataloging those interactions, but also realizing the data you dont have. so when we would ask someone to share the fact that early voting started today in iowa with their friends on facebook on iowa, we could drop those facebook f...

Especially his debate, the president didnt really carve out his achievements, auto industry, bringing the economy back in the 7% range rather than the 10% range, doubling the stock market. there are a lot of things to talk positively about. is he going to do that tonight or just let that pass? whats he up to on that? >> i had an aide bluntly admit to me that, look -- and they said, his job tonight is simply to say why he wants a second term and what hes going to do. hes got to simply answer thos...

Democrats playing missouri and even west virginia at one point or throwing money down to get the other side to spend money or compete and while republicans were looking at places like washington too. wheres new mexico? >> robert, one of the things john cohen head of the polling team said it is fascinating the split between the engagement of young voters in swing states and voters in non-swing states. thats where this is being waged. thats where we need to check with enthusiasm. >> i was listenin...