. >> susie: the latest gallup poll shows voters want a new congress to deliver more results and fewer excuses. >> jeff: what the midterm election says about the economy, and the needs of voters. you're watching "nightly business report" for monday, november 1. this is "nightly business report" with susie gharib and tom hudson. "nightly business report" is made possible by: this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. captioning sponsored by wpbt >> susie: good evening everyone. investors stood still today, waiting for news on three big events this week: tomorrow's elections, a key fed meeting and the friday jobs report. jeff, the federal reserve kicks off a two-day meeting tomorrow. it's all but certain policymakers will take bold action to prop up the economy. >> jeff: susie, the central bank is expected to announce a program to buy government bonds, similar to what it did during the financial crisis. but even though the fed has signaled its plan, no one really knows the details. >> susie: there are many unknowns. as erika miller explains,

gallup said that they surveyed over 90,000 americans for this one poll.an, where was i when they were calling people about president obama? the survey said that only 44% of us approve of president presides performance. well, i surveyed nine of my friends and 8 of them said they liked obama but didn't trust gallup polls. as far as i'm concerned, obama is doing the best job he knows how. and it's good enough for me. >> bill: well, that's interesting, andy. president bush did the best job he could do. did he not? was that good enough for you? check six. cindy and john mccain do not agree about don't ask, don't tell. >> our political and religious leaders tell youth that they have no future. >> they can't get married. >> they can't donate blood. >> they can't serve our country openly. >> what's worse, these laws that legislate discrimination teach bullies what they are doing unacceptable. >> the government treats lbgt second class citizens why don't they. >> bill: currently doesn't support flipping the policy. that dinner table ought to be interesting. big ma

get a gallup poll monday after month. >> >> they are not going to 30.not going to happen. >> do you remember when i cleaned your clock that we bet that mike huckabee would break 10. >> bill: i don't remember that i do remember when you said the republicans would win the senate and you were humiliated. in totality you owe mike me like 18 dinners. don't give me that morris. if you had to bet, if you were a betting man, all right you? would say the odds of hillary clinton, because i think she is the only democrat that could challenge him, just like ted kennedy challenged jimmy carter, it's the same thing. hillary could raise the money. moderate democrats would listen to her. okay? the odds of hillary clinton resigning as secretary of state and running against barack obama are, what? >> one in three. >> bill: that's not too bad. so you think she is keeping an eye on it? >> yeah. there was a reason she spent election night in cambodia. [ laughter ] >> if you look at a globe exact opposite of where washington is you have to tunnel through to get there. >> bil

gallup said that they surveyed over 90,000 americans for this one poll. mean, where was i when they were calling people about president obama? the survey said that only 44% of us approve of president's obama's performance. well, i surveyed nine of my friends, and eight of them said they liked obama but didn't trust a gallup poll. as far as i'm concerned, obama's doing the best job he knows how, and it's good enough for me. something called the 2010 mercer quality of living survey chose the top 221 best cities to live in, in the whole world. according to this survey, the three best cities were vienna, zurich and geneva. new york city came in 49th out of the 221 cities that they rated. i was born in albany, new york. i've lived in london, cologne, paris and beverly hills. i've lived in new york city for a long time now, and i'll take new york. i forget whether i've ever been to zurich or not. i wouldn't want to live in a city that i forget whether i've ever been to or not. you can't forget new york. despite all the surveys i read, i've never been asked what

. >> bill: gallup poll taken a few days after the election show president obama's rating up a few pointsa new poll just released today says the president has lost three of those points. 44% of americans now approve of the president on the job. 48% disapprove. purveyor of dick morris.com mr. morris. this chris christie thing bothers me. because you have got the justice department, very powerful. when you were in the white house, did you ever see the clinton administration use the justice department to go after somebody for political reasons? >> well, the whole clinton presidency happened pause of just that. clinton was losing ground to bush as the '92 election came out. and the special prosecutor walsh, lawrence walsh, announced five days before election that he was going to indict cap wineberger, the defense secretary in the bush white house, bush administration over iraq. and they never did. he was pardoned. but that announcement five days before election day is the reason bill clinton won the presidency. >> bill: that was iran. you said iraq. >> iraq. >> bill: what did he do in iraq. >

we also know -- and this is not only gallup research. there's an entire body of research looking at the relationship between entrepreneurship and civic engagement and this is borne out by a research as well, where aspiring entrepreneurs are far more likely to say that they volunteer their time or that they have helped a stranger in the past week. one last point on this site about which is extremely important is that the people who are most likely to be creating a business are also the people who are most likely to leave their countries permanently. okay, i promised we would look at business entry items versus is this outcome items, so here we go. in terms of business entry, we see in terms of looking at feeling confident that, you know, i can find the people qualified to do the job i need to be done and my business. we have a pretty strong majority of people -- ofoung people who say so. the picture doesn't look as good when we look at two other extremely important aspects to launch a business. and that's the paperwork that's necessary to

gallup shows republicans up 15 points, fox news says 13, cnn says 10. cbs says six and "newsweek" reports democrats ahead by three points. he explains the distinctions. in this polling pluralism, what are americans supposed to take away from all this besides confusion? >> listen to the battleground poll. >> i can give you an example inside the battleground poll. we saw this as a standard in the last election. a lot of people were speculating what the electorate would look like and they began pulling samples not on what they knew the electorate would look like, which was not much different. but what they assume that the electorate was going to look like. we screen out people and say the are definitely not going to vote and include everyone else. internally, will lead to is modeling that takes into account how intense they are about voting, how intense effort can't it, the older they are, a higher propensity, the more educated, the higher the propensity to vote. if youif you are college-educatu will come out much higher. we thought it would come out aroun

according to a gallup poll, shoppers say they will spend almost $100 more this year on christmas giftsthan they did last year. >> consumers are ready to spend. they're ready to stop thinking about the recession and get out there and make purchases. >> reporter: enter the popups which are no longer just for traditional retailers. take "wired" magazine for instance which has managed to dreck its readers from the printed page to this brand new popup store in new york. it will be open for just six weeks sell issing the latest gadgets to consumers. >> i think when you get to experience and play with it a little more, you tend to want to -- >> reporter: this wasn't here three months ago. >> this wasn't here two weeks ago. >> reporter: retail consultant paco underhill says by editing the choices on the shelves, successful popups are a barometer for social change. >> we have reached the epogee of the big box. i don't think we can grow the box any bigger. popups i think are a very important bellwether to the speed at which our lives are lived. >> reporter: a pace that, like many popups, are her

in the process of researching, came across a gallup poll that indicated people were asked to volunteers and name of the person they most admired, most influential of any living person in the world and glen beck came out ahead of the pope. not to mention every living former president, narrowly edged out by nelson mandela but only narrowly. i got to find out what this guy is all about. the fact of the matter is he is a radio guy with ten million listeners a week, has two million on fox news which is a huge but he is so much more than that. he is a movement leader. i am sure we were all on the 20 eighth of august, even if you weren't, you saw the pictures that you knew that this is clearly a man whose aspirations go beyond broadcasting to being a real movement leader. i call him the first true demagogue of the cable news here. >> host: that is how he differs from bill o'reilly or rush limbaugh. they command higher ratings but that is a class by himself. >> guest: o'reilly gets more viewers but he is in prime time at 8:00 p.m.. to get three million people watching your cable news shows at 5

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people in serbia are getting less enthusiastic about their country joining the european union a new gallup poll highlights concerns over signing up to an alliance with having trouble keeping itself together as arafat explains the basics that people are worried about with prices in the shops already rising due to. its government's eyes are firmly on the west in just a few days time so if you will be presented with a questionnaire by the commission and what's seen as an important step in serbia's bid to join the e.u. for us citizens as was the case for the rest of the continent being part of the e.u. is the certainty for peace and stability a normal life better away from the prairie political rhetoric and the media monks the public in serbia is the first the different in fact a recent monitoring report found that more than half the respondents now viewed. negatively on the other will only listen to the politicians and so focused on joining the. e.u. gives. and it seems that government is being dictated to by the e.u. what you do around impose crisis here are many e.u. countries and they're f

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martha: there is a gallup number out this morning, that is disturbing, 17% approval rating for congressnd i know that, you know, the senate is an institution that you love. you have been at this for a long time, as i mentioned before, senator hatch and i say that out of respect. what is your sense of -- >> thank you. martha: -- of whether or not anything will change with the whole movement, tea party movement, anger over health care, is anything going to be different come january? >> i think, things are going to change. we will have, seems to me, an earmark moratorium, and, i am for an earmark moratorium and there will be -- >> mitch mcconnell disagrees with you, sir. what do you say about that? >> well, i don't think it is totally -- he totally disagrees with me, i voted twice for a moratorium on earmarks, and, i intend to vote for it again. on the other handle, we have to make sure that this earmarks that are essential to our country and to especially states that have to have them in order to continue economic programs that are already -- >> how do you draw the line, senator? everybod

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. >> reporter: and luck is on john boehner's side according to the latest gallup poll where 55% of likely voters say they're voting republican tomorrow compared to just 40% voting democratic. an unprecedented 15-point advantage for the g.o.p. >> how does that translate into specific votes when people get into the polls we'll find out. but 55, 60, 65 seats, even 70 doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility. >> reporter: for the republicans? >> for the republicans. s reporter: the last time a party won that many seats was 1948 when democrats picked up 75. in the last republican wave in 1994 the party picked up 52 seats >> i'm joining a lot of volunteers down here at our headquarters. >> reporter: democrats hope their robust get out the vote effort will make the difference in tight races. especially senate races in illinois, pennsylvania, and california. >> the positive change that we know is on the way. maybe it hasn't come to the degree we want it to come. but it is coming. >> reporter: in fact, the democrats are even e-mailing their supporters asking them what time they plan to vote to

. >>> the latest gallup poll paints a bleak picture for democrats. 55% of likely voters plan to vote for the republican congressional candidate. 40% say they'll vote for the democrat. facing an anti-incumbent electorate, worried about the economy, and a surprisingly strong tea party movement, democrats are still trying to rally the troops. randall pinkston is in washington with much more on this. good morning, randall. >> reporter: good morning, betty. well, as you indicate, the pollsters and the pundits have spoken, and now the voters will speak, at the polls, to decide if predictions of republican takeover of the house and gains in the senate will, indeed, come true. democrats are counting on voters to turn out big to save their majority in congress. >> if we show up and vote, we win. it's as simple as that. >> reporter: the party's brightest stars worked the campaign trail late into the night monday, in a last-ditch effort to rally supporters. >> i keep looking for this enthusiasm gap the republicans say exists. and i can't find it to save my life. >> reporter: but by the time pol

the gallup approval rating on seniors is 39%. those are terrible numbers. and we know that there -- the direct correlation between the president's approval rating and the outcome of the vote in midterm elections, even though the president is not on the ballot. the point of view of seniors, they are very dissatisfied with the status quo, dissatisfied with what they call the obama economic policies. and there is almost uniform concern about the debt and deficit. all those things will be in place today and will all serve to explain why we will see high turnout numbers from seniors and move against the democratic party from older voters 65 or older. host: there is an article in the "financial times" talking about funding. it talks about a group called the 60 plus. the organization has spent millions of dollars of tax and democrat . -- has spent millions of dollars attacking democrats. you can read more about that in the "financial times." next call, go ahead. caller: i do not think that i will see much from the beneficiary -- the benefits that seniors are suppo

>> there is a recent gallup poll that found 78% of air travelers did approve of these full body scanners being used at airports. 84% of them believe the scanners would prevent explosives from being carried on board a plane. >> all right. kate amara, thank you. >> 48 degrees on tv hill. the latest on the alleged murder of 10-year-old sarah baker. >> the hearing to determine whether army major nidal hasan should stand trial for the fort hood shooting. >> this is the beltway at liberty road. the roadway is wet. the roadway is wet. be ♪ ♪ [ dad ] yeah! [ cheers and applause ] [ male announcer ] achievement gets points for living life. earn pnc points for your credit and debit card purchases. ♪ find out more at pnc.com/getpoints. pnc. for the achiever in us all. >> welcome back. 51 degrees downtown pier there is some rain and fog out there this morning so give yourself some extra time. most of the rate is around baltimore. frederick counties, it is dry. as you drive into baltimore, you will run into the rain today. a good chance that everybody will see rain at one point or another today. it w

. >>> a usa today gallup poll shows voters are confident democrats and republicans will work together. 64% say they think president obama will make a sincere effort to work with republicans in congress to find solutions acceptable to both parties. >>> the u.s. supreme court has decided no to hear a california case challenging president obama's health care law. the case had previously been dismissed by a judge in san diego. that judge ruled it is premature because no one could show they had been harm by the law. >>> it's going to be a cold one tonight. a frost advisory in effect for the north bay. it's going to be a frosty cold one when you wake up. as you head into work, you may want to get the car warmed up. 35 in fairfield. in the north bay, there's going to be plenty of frost. you'll find frost in clayton as well. definitely a cooler morning and a cooler day. clouds are increasing tomorrow. daytime highs are just going to be in the 50s and low 60s. i've got some rain possible. when we come back, the latest computer model for tomorrow afternoon. >>> police say the man they arrested

. >>> a usa today gallup poll shows voters are confident democrats and republicans will work together. 64% say they think president obama will make a sincere effort to work with republicans in congress to find solutions acceptable to both parties. >>> the u.s. supreme court has decided no to hear a california case challenging president obama's health care law. the case had previously been dismissed by a judge in san diego. that judge ruled it is premature because no one could show they had been harm by the law. >>> it's going to be a cold one tonight. a frost advisory in effect for the north bay. it's going to be a frosty cold one when you wake up. as you head into work, you may want to get the car warmed up. 35 in fairfield. in the north bay, there's going to be plenty of frost. you'll find frost in clayton as well. definitely a cooler morning and a cooler day. clouds are increasing tomorrow. daytime highs are just going to be in the 50s and low 60s. i've got some rain possible. when we come back, the latest computer model for tomorrow afternoon. >>> police say the man they arrested

>> there is where a recent gallup poll that asks fliers and airline passengers just that. 70% approved of these full body scanners and 84% said they believed these scanners will prevent explosives from being brought onto planes. >> kate amara, thank you. have a good day. students in virginia high school have a harder time flunking out of class. the school has eliminated the f grade and has replaced it with an i for incomplete. some are applauding this decision. others say by removing the fear of failure, students will be less motivated to succeed. we want to know what you think. that brings us to our water cooler question of the day. what do you think about the idea of replacing the "f" with an "i" for incomplete on student report cards? you can e-mail your response to watercooler@wbaltv.com. again, that is watercooler@wbaltv.com. >> it is 48 degrees on tv hill. coming up, the bloomberg business report. >> big changes coming for the biggest social network. we will tell you what facebook has in store. >> itunes will make a big announcement today. could yesterday becoming today? >> gobbl

a new gallup poll shows that 52% of americans have an unfavorable view of sarah palin. >>> its t hopend is getting a new home this morning. known's museum of natural history is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the dime on's donation way new exhibit today. it will be shown to the public in a new setting called embracing hope. it will be unveiled at 11:00 this morning. that is gorgeous. >> i think that make it look better. the thing about the hope diamond, when you go see it, it is impressive because it is huge but it is just a diamond. that is fantastic. >> that looks great. >> stop salivating because you can't get it. >> a couple million more. >> i'm really not into jewelry that much but that thing is just beautiful. >> that is a beauty. we've got a lot going on in the weather department so we'll jump right in. we'll start with the cold temperatures that we are seeing this morning. if you liked yesterday morning, you might not like this morning so much. 43degrees in the nation's capital. dulles airport is at 35. or to the east is where you fine the temperatures in the 40s. off to t

so this is a new gallup poll.r john baner to g er boehner to get a lot of fans or enemies. >> interesting numbers about the democrats and the republicans. we know a lame duck congress is coming back next week, the big topic, the big discussion, extending the bush tax cuts for the wealthiest americans. they don't see eye to eye. check the numbers out, mark was talking about that gallup poll. we asked what is more important, for politicians to stick to their beliefs or compromise. check this out. republicans and democrats don't see eye to eye. six out of ten democrats say it is more important to compromise, only less than one in five say stick to your beliefs. republicans, four in ten say stick to your beliefs. it seems republicans and democrats don't agree on agreeing, brooke. >> there we go. mark and paul, guys, both of you, big thank you. we'll get another political ticker update for you in 30 minutes. you can always get the latest political news, always working very, very hard to update it, go to cnnpolitics.com

according to the latest gallup poll, unprecedented 55% of likely voters say they'll be casting the ballot for the gop today. compared to just 40% for the democrats. the last time republicans did so well was in 1994, the year of the republican revelation with 52 seats. analysts predict similar gains tonight. democrats brought out their biggest stars in a last-minute scramble for votes. >> everybody's playing politics and everybody tries to turn three dimensional people into two dimensional cartoons. >> reporter: former president bill clinton headed to wf in support of senate hopeful joe manchin. >> harry knows who and what he stands for. and he has never forgotten where he came from. >> reporter: in nevada, michelle obama made a last-minute push for harry reid. the majority lead who are's running against tea party candidate sharron angle in a race most polls show him losing. president obama stayed out of sight on monday giving radio interviews and releasing a video to aol. >> hi, this is barack obama. you've got a chance to change your community and your country. all you have to do is vote

new gallup poll suggests most americans, 52%, have a negative view of palin.a moment ago, my favorite part of this morning, good to see fredricka whitfield. i wish we could show people the things that go on to get you to where you are right now. >> i'm so glad they can't see that part. >> a lot going on while i was doing news there. a little wardrobe shifting going on. >> up to the minute. 24/7 broadcast here. sometimes we do things just as it's all happening. >> and it was just happening. >> sometimes you need to see it sometimes you don't. >> you didn't need to see that. >> how are you doing? >> hello. all of the stuff that you can see, should see, start agent noon eastern time. legal guys. >> legal guys. >> i love to start with them. they are my favorite of the noon eastern hour and the favorites of a lot of people who tune in every weekend, they're so bright, smart. incredible takes on everything from mel gibson heading to court coming up involving, yeah, the battle with his -- should we call her ex-girlfriend? estranged? not sure what the relationship is

so despite a new gallup poll showing a majority of americans disapprove of palin, 80% of republicansw her favorably. >> would you like to sing at an inauguration? not necessarily mine. >> reporter: andrea mitchell. >>> if you don't plan on staying home and watching palin's new show, how about a movie? big surprises at the box office. early estimates show "unstoppable" to be popular with moviegoers. it stars denzel washington in a race against the clock to stop an unmanned runaway train. take a look. >> oh, jesus. >> you're going to get us killed. >> hey! [ train horn blows ] >> jack! >> oh. joining me now in studio dawn yanek editor request "life & style weekly." >> they're neck and neck right now. each earning $25 million this weekend. it looked like "megamind" was going to dominate. this is kind of unstoppable on its way to the number one spot. of course, it stars some of the "life & style weekly" faves, denzel washington, chris pine, rosario dawson. not the first time that denzel and tony scott did a train movie. they did "the taking of pelham 1, 2, 3" last year. >> can the same b

the gallup poll came out today, her unfavorable rating is 52%. her favorable is 40%.it's ever been. so, yeah, there's a strong concentrated group of people on the republican side who really love and adore sarah palin. but when karl rove and other republicans, alex, he danced around it but even he knows, at the end of the day, sarah palin would be a disaster for the democratic party and paul begala is at home saying, please nominate sarah palin for the republican party. >> i don't know that it's something you'd call a reality show because she's had an unreal life from third place finisher in the miss alaska path to governor of alaska, running for vice president and now a celebrity but she. >> that's reality tv. >> she does have a tremeb disamount of political power. she's created this past year the republican feminist movement. you know, inspiring a lot of women, hey, we can't leave our children with less opportunity and more debt than we have. she does have enough power to raise money and help get candidates through primaries but she's the biggest fish in a small pond

a new gallup poll shows number of americans viewing her unfavorably hit a new high.e than half american, 52% view her negatively making her the most divisive of all potential candidates in the 2012 republican field. but is a reality show the way to prove presidential readiness? karl rove said, no in a recent interview. there are high standards that the american people have for the presidency, and they require a certain level of grauv tass. gravitas. palin's response. >> those standards have to be high for someone who would ever want to run for president, wasn't ronald reagan an actor? >> reporter: despite media coverage of her children, cam rathers inside her home, and bristol seen on abs's "dancing with the stars" is absent the first episode, the feisty sidekick piper takes center stage. >> mom is super busy. she is addicted to the blackberry. >> reporter: and cameras catch a teenage boy trying to sneak upstairs with palin's 16-year-old daughter willow. >> see this gate? it's not just for trigg. it's for no boys go upstairs. >> reporter: interesting moments. huh? la

. >> bill: when president bush left office, his approval rating was 34% according to gallup.ome right back, i will ask the president whether there is tension between him and dick cheney. he deals with that a bit in the book. the conversation continues in just a few moments. >> bill: president bush deals with a lot of permanents in his book "decision points" among them vice president dick cheney who had a disagreement with the president over his refusal to pardon the right-hand man scooter libby. >> bill: one of the parts about the book was dick cheney being mad at you for not pardoning scooty libby. is he still mad at you. >> i don't think so. >> bill: do you talk to him a lot. >> he was sick i'm pleased to report is he coming down to the ground breaking off you are library at msu. >> bill: you guys are pals still. >> having lunch with him and looking forward to seeing him. >> bill: he was a powerful vice president, correct. >> i don't know how you compare him to other vice presidents. >> bill: you listen to him, right. >> of course i do like i listen to a lot of other adviso

. >>> a new gallup poll says 52% of people hold a negative view of palin.howing since the organization started tracking palin's popularity. >>> and president obama is on the final leg of his four-country asian tour. he's in japan this weekend for an economic summit. as cnn's dan lothian reports, this has been a difficult trip for the president. >> reporter: well, president obama has been pushing the trade agenda making the case to these world leaders that everyone can benefit from expanded trade. mr. obama pointing out that seven of the top trading partners with the u.s. are part of apec, also pointeding out that 60% of u.s. exports come to this region. the case that mr. obama has been making on this asia tour is that the global markets as they open up, there's more opportunity for u.s. goods creating jobs ak bat home, but some here are worried that the united states is coming with its hands out looking for jobs back at home, and they wonder, what are they getting in return? mr. obama addressed that issue speaking to business leaders today. >> i make no apo