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Of his performance, 50%. and for the third straight poll the president's approval rating among democrats is under 80%. that is sort of a yellow flag here for the white house. we'll 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. hart, this is the only way we could get you to show up. >> i'm honored and welcome. >> i can't wait....

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 we'll 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-and-run driver. up next, a new twist as we learn the illegal immigrant accused of killing her father ...

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 don't 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 friends into an e-mail and say, hey, let them know that today's election day, but we could also say,...

Especially his debate, the president didn't 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? what's 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 he's going to do. he's got to simply answer those two questions. yes, he needs to draw contrasts. and i sort of pushed back. i said, it sounds l...

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. where's 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. that's where this is being waged. that's where we need to check with enthusiasm. >> i was listening to liz a few moments ago. it feels a lot like 2008. not necessarily from an enthusiasm point. b...