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As far as who gets the biggest amount of credit, a grail deal as the poll puts it, democrats overwhelmingly for obama, and independents are about 2-1 for obama, republicans almost 2-1 for bush. 6-10 republicans say president obama deserves some credit for obama's -- for bin laden's death. but 8-10 republicans say president bush deserves some of the credit. i think they probably believe that reagan deserves most of the credit for everything. this is bizarreo, isn't it? >> it is bizarre-o, but i think even though the numbers are at best equivocal for the president among democrats, they are stron...

>> in every one of them, you have talked about this. >> every one. >> and what have you gleaned from those interviews with the president? >> well, i'm so glad that you asked it that way, because the president has got to be given credit for having done exactly what he said he would do. if you go back to the spring of 2007, when he started to say, i will move on actionable intelligence in pakistan if i don't have confidence in the pakistanis doing so, and i then perpetuated that question and would ask him time and again. many people didn't want to believe him. you know, the republicans did not w...

Cannonization. the guy would be on mt. rushmore if w. had done this. carving the stone tonight, right? >> no question. >> the spiking of the ball. >> just like what george w. did, you know, on the aircraft carrier. >> without even doing it. >> it wasn't really mission accomplished. this really was mission accomplished. if it was the republicans, there would be fireworks everywhere. >> todd, do you want to venture a partisan assessment here? >> i think most republicans were quite effusive of the praise of the president. dick cheney couldn't have been more gracious. >> but 80% of the republican ...

31% give president bush no credit. as far as who gets the biggest amount of credit, a grail deal as the poll puts it, democrats overwhelmingly for obama, and independents are about 2-1 for obama, republicans almost 2-1 for bush. 6-10 republicans say president obama deserves some credit for obama's -- for bin laden's death. but 8-10 republicans say president bush deserves some of the credit. i think they probably believe that reagan deserves most of the credit for everything. this is bizarreo, isn't it? >> it is bizarre-o, but i think even though the numbers are at best equivocal for the presid...

And todd perdham is the national editor. do i have to ask what republicans -- secular cannonization. the guy would be on mt. rushmore if w. had done this. carving the stone tonight, right? >> no question. >> the spiking of the ball. >> just like what george w. did, you know, on the aircraft carrier. >> without even doing it. >> it wasn't really mission accomplished. this really was mission accomplished. if it was the republicans, there would be fireworks everywhere. >> todd, do you want to venture a partisan assessment here? >> i think most republicans were quite effusive of the praise of the ...