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Presidents but of democratic presidents like franklin roosevelt and john kennedy of trying to spread freedom of democracy and the world and standing up against totalitarian forces. and within months, after he left office, that berlin wall came down as he asked it to do out there in the brandenberg gate and the soviet union soon ceased to exist. communism lost its hold on eastern europe. so that was a very low blood shed triumph for the united states and for freedom of democracy. that's a pretty strong record. >> eric: at the sameat the samee had unemployment rate 1982 was bigger than today was...

Laughing? >> i don't agree with you. >> you think this is mourning in america. >> contrary to what john boehner when he accused the president of not saying exceptionalism. the president time and time again during the speech showed a sunny optmistic. this is a morn nothing america speech . people an analyze it see it properly. >> we'll check with jim pinkerton. anduc leto work in the reagan campaigns. when we said morning in america. unemployment declining and fell in 10.8 to sen.2 on day in '84. that is a 50 percent decrease. what we are seeing here that reagan has joined the pantheon of great...

Laughing? >> i don't agree with you. >> you think this is mourning in america. >> contrary to what john boehner when he accused the president of not saying exceptionalism. the president time and time again during the speech showed a sunny optmistic. this is a morn nothing america speech . people an analyze it see it properly. >> we'll check with jim pinkerton. anduc leto work in the reagan campaigns. when we said morning in america. unemployment declining and fell in 10.8 to sen.2 on day in '84. that is a 50 percent decrease. what we are seeing here that reagan has joined the pantheon of great...

Previous year and a half. >> okay. even with the new approach, though, charlie, you say the president is not going to coast to re-election. why? what are the main factors there? >> this is a race against the clock to see how fast the economy can recover, how fast can we get job recovery fully in place, you know, before the november 2012 election? the president reagan was sort of the patron saint of presidents coming back from tough recessions because unemployment was at 10.8% at the time of the 1982 republican setbacks. but it had dropped to 7.4% by the time president reagan won this massive r...

The representative male on the program, the average weekly approval rating dropped below 40%. i think it's about 38.5% among men. what does that tell you if anything? >> well, look, women have always been more supportive of the democratic party than men have. if you look at ronald reagan at this point he had less support among women than obama support among men at this time. his poll ratings were significantly lower than president obama's. but, of course under ronald reagan unemployment went as high as 10.8% and it took three years to get us out of the recession. still he had a landslide victo...