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Of the effect for him here. we looked at independent voters and how much they blamed bush and how much they blamed obama. 58% of voters blamed bush somewhat or a great deal of the state of the economy. only 41% it the blamed obama. it seems to suggest that obama may be getting a bit of a free pass from some voters because the economy tanked under his predecessor's watch. >> john, two other theories about why obama's outperforming. obama's personal rating and the nbc/"wall street journal" poll yesterday is 48% favorable, 43 unfavorable. romney is underwater at 38 favor unfavorable, 44 favorab...

>> strunk and white tells us to do. i would push back a little bit against going forward which i find missing wanting to correct somebody. i don't want to make it about the past. going forward, into the future, don't do that again. it's a nicer way to talk about it i think. but john rentoule, i love the banned list. if everybody would abide by the list, it would be a better world. >> problem solved. >> going forward. >> thank you very much, john. >> my pleasure. >> all right. up next, we'll talk about trouble in the nfl. but first, some cycle birthdays for you. today of's favorite bridesmaid k...

Of ryan. other polls show slightly different results. you're looking at an obama lead of one or two points. that's what it's been for a few months now. does any of this come as a surprise when you consider the state of the economy and unemployment well above 8%? you think obama might be doing worse than this. why is he outperforming himself? in the guest spot, the number cruncher who set out to answer that question. john sides from george washington university and the co-author of the ebook spb the gam double." he's the author of a great blauth monkey cage. check it out if you want to learn an...

Something rotten. >> you know, john, coming up as a writer, i got very used to the phrase vigorous writing is concise. you make it a point that it's not just the words we use but how many we use. and in fact, if we could all be more concise, our writing and speaking would be a little bit smarter sounding. >> well, that's actually one of the topless sons you get from reading that essay by george orwell. if you can cross a word out, then you know, it doesn't do any harm to do so. obviously you don't want to cross everything out because you'll end up with "it the full stop or boy meets girl and e...

For state budget troubles and the remedies. chief remedy number one, squeeze the unions until they choke. there are, of course, different situations in all of these different states that we're seeing anti-union proposals on the table. but the central case on the right is that states are facing budget crises because of the public sector unions. that's the argument. the argument being made by scott walker in wisconsin, by chris christie in new jersey and by conservatives like david brooks in "the new york times." he writes states with public sector unions tend to run into fiscal crises. tend. lo...