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Countries like russia, but we're very inwardly focused. >> it is, the more connected we are around the world, we know more about what's going on, yet we'll be in this era, we'll look at the post-iraq era is an era of america turning inward. >> well, america works on long trends, and we've always had these periods where we get very involved in international, and americans say that's it, i'm exhausted, i'm tired. and this is a challenge for the american president, both in syria last august in 2013, and now in the ukraine and crimea. we have a president who's trying to get american resolve, and h...

this is "the daily rundown." chuck todd. let's get to my "first reads" of the morning. i feel like we've had the first game of the nfl season, the midterms if you want to call it, after last night's special election. republican david jolly narrowly won a special election in florida's 13th district. it gives republicans a big victory and puts up a red flag for democrats hoping a strong candidate and campaign can overcome a difficult national environment. jolly beat democrat alex sink by just 3,500 votes, winning 48.5% to sink's 46.6%. the libertarian candidate pulled in nearly 5% of t...

The economy has to do with your own personal perceptions of how the economy is working for you. and our poll shows it's not working for most people and the family. it's not working for the middle class. that's an important part of the psyche around how the economy is working. you can see that the words that were being used to describe the direction of the country were very negative. and as you said, even consumer confidence is at an -- at least in the last four years, at an high. the disconnect is also because, look, there are less people looking for jobs today, even though the unemployment's ...

It's a dramatic turnaround since then year-to-year. today, the jobless rate is down a full percent. inflation is down, and the dow has climbed more than 2,500 points, and the latest consumer confidence number has soared from 58% to 80%, and yet with all of that, the public's view of america and the economy is the same or worse than it was 12 months ago. our latest poll finds 71% of the people still dissatisfied with the economy, essentially unchanged, and now 63% say america is off on the wrong track, six points higher than this was in january of 2013. joining me now to go deeper into the poll...

Happened over the last four years in terms of our deficit. >> fred, another part of the poll that's interesting, we're able to look republican distric those that live in democratic congressional districts. a few things where there's not surprising diversion, right, in republican districts, the president's rating is 62%, and 56% when it comes to direction of the country. health care law, 56% say it's a bad idea, democrat districts, 52%. that's not surprising. here's where they do agree. they have a negative view of the republican party. does that give the democrats an opening? right now the mid...