at the highest, since gallup has been in business. so it's on an increasing scale. government is continuously a big problem. people see it as a problem going forward. i can only point out, now bob, i know you will jump down my throat any second here. but the tea party has been calling for the smaller government. saying that will save us from ourselves. the other one is big business. how important is that? is it going to be a problem going forward? it comes in at 26%. it's been flat since history of gallup. people aren't saying it's big business or big labor. foreseeable problem is big government. obama is the big government. he is the guy. >> bob: i'm not going to jump down your throat. your numbers, that you recite here are accurate. what i would say is since gallup has begun this poll, big government has always been at the top. this is not the highest. it was 65 at one point. secondly, the businesses come in second. the most important number here, your great and dislike for big labor and they are 8%. don't worry about it. you and greg have to stop worrying about b

to make matters worse, obama is upside down in the gallup daily tracking poll, a couple of days after beckel was down right giddy. only 41% approve of obama. 50%, i don't think so. all right, andrea, what do you think about the numbers? >> andrea: he is in big trouble. he saw a very short-term bounce. democrats were starting to rally around him in payroll tax. the optics of that fight helped him because he stayed out of it. now, he has to deal with an economy he hasn't fixed. contrary to what democrats say, it's still in the gutter.

gingrich's national gallup prospects in the last few days. but still, he's nine points ahead right now nationwide. and that lead that mr. gingrich -- that uncomplicated lead that mr. gingrich has jumped out to, that frankly explains this. >> i think people understand that i'm a man of steadiness and constant tann cy. i don't think you'll find anybody who's got more of that than me. i've been married to the same woman for 42 years. i go to the same church all my life. i worked for one company for 25 years and i left to go off and help save the olympic games. if i'm president of the united states i will be true to my family, to my faith, and to my country, and i will never apologize for the united states of america. >> i'm mitt romney, and i approve this message. >> mitt romney was probably going to run as a family values guy anyway. they all do. but what better time to start the family values part of the campaign than when newt gingrich shoots by you in the polls with his third wife in tow? the thing that has democrats really excited about mit

every year the gallup poll asks americans to name the men and women they most admire. the results just came out. we're counting down the top five for you tonight. number five, on the list of most admired men is businessman warren buffett. this is the first year he's cracked the top ten. number five on the list of most admired women, former secretary of state condoleezza rice. we'll have the next name on the list in about ten minutes. but next, the gingrich campaign reacts to what mitt romney just told wolf blitzer about the state of the race for the gop nomination. t t nk you car o pi up some accessories. a new belt. some nylons. and what girl wouldn't need new shoes? we talked about getting a diamond. but with all the thank you points i've been earning... ♪ ...i flew us to the rock i really had in mind. ♪ [ male announcer ] the citi thank you card. earn points you can use for travel on any airline, with no blackout dates. [ male announcer ] it's easy to see what subaru owners care about. ♪ that's why we created the share the love event. get a great deal on a new subar

gallup. predictions will tell us. >> eric: a poll had romney at the top take over in iowa.ich. bob, you have been talking about this for a long time. gingrich, his time has come and going in iowa. for me when i read that, i'm not sure he meant that the capitol police will subpoena the judges and knock on the door. more like newt being a purist. he has to, saying for a long time. he has to appeal to the conservative base or he is in trouble. >> dana: a lifetime appointment, you can run a risk of the lunatic fringe -- >> greg: how is what newt said different from a certain president that might send security or police to talk to a hot girl. >> dana: has that happened? >> greg: yes, it has. the problem with newt every sentence begins with "you could do this." you could build a hotel on the sun or live under water in giant bubble or grow extra arms in the lab and become a giant spider. the problem is they never become actionable. the ideas guy is never the results guy. a lot of ideas are out there. >> bob: last week he said there is pulsation for the country. i'm not sure i unde

u.s., but around the world through the gallup world poll. that's a private polling firm as we know. there is that serious discussion out in a new national economy finds the panel of well-being that checks, which will be assessing whether or not we should be including some of these measures and to our senses and other statistical gathering data. postcode if you are to include it? to and we're going to use the word happiness, how could you phrase it? >> guest: i would include at least three questions, hopefully four to capture these different components. one captures how do you experience yesterday at how happy were you yesterday? some question along those lines. the short-term fluctuations in people's well-being, how they live their daily lives. then i include how satisfied are you with your life as a whole? or come a question that life purpose. your purpose or meaning in your life? your different dimensions and people may value them differently. and finally possible i would also include another question, which is how does your life compared

. >> only 6% of the amerirican people on the gallup polls and i don't want members of congresss reelectedpercent of the american people on the gallup polls say i don' want members of congress reelected. >> in exchange for -- they want to get something out of the administration if they're going to do get the payroll tax cut. >> it sounds like it is going to be a last minute -- but in any normal year -- doing this show for a long time -- they are just so crazy and screwed up. >> they d it last year without big fan fail -- fanfare. >> i think t republicans are smart and tying it to the keystone pipeline which is a purerely political decision, meaning a dision abominate that would help win in his reelection in which he postponed for a year approval of a pipeline t the state government had approved and studied for ree years. i think republicans hold onto it as a jobs action because it would crereate a lot of jobs, it putsts obama in a really tight spot. >> don't let the epa turn the lights off on the american economy. the epa is finalizing the most expensive rule in history - threatening ameri

. >> a new gallup poll shows congresses' approval rating has hit an all-time low.p senator in chief frank newport suggests that 2011 will be remembered as which the american public lost any remaining faith in the men and women they elect and second off to washington to represent them. norm, what interests me about this low approval rating of congress is how does it affect the upcoming congressional election for the body -- and does -- is it your sense that it applies to both bodies equally, senate and the house, or do you have a sense that the public is distinguishing here? >> i think the public will distinguish now with the latest move. we have finished a manuscript for a new book which is called "it's even worse than it looks" and it is true. this has been bad. no wonder people are angry. the latest action by the house republicans is going to crystallize things and with senate republicans, prominent ones criticizing them, i think it gives people a focal point, other than the diffuse anger than they've had. >> it looks very dangerous to be republican control. it l

gallup poll show what is is most important to viewers in iowa. social issues. iowa used to be dominated by social issues. that is what rick santorum and others are running on. gotten no traction on it for good reason. this raises another question to take us back from loser like perry to newt gingrich. this is the first time i have seen the republican party at the presidential level led by the grassroots as opposed to the establishment. i'm not sure it has establishment anymore. people against gingrich are those who have known newt a long time and can't stand him. if they haven't figured out the grassroots of the conservative movement running the party, they are missing something. >> eric: in 2010 should have given them a heads up. you have brought out a poll out two weeks ago and said the tea party, look the support is wayneing. i don't think it. it's just they are waiting for right candidate to get traction. >> kimberly: bring back grassroots, eric? >> bob: i said they were waning in the general electio election. i don't think they wayne in the

some are repeats from the "usa today" gallup poll. first man, president obama is at the top of the list. george b. w. bush is in second. graham has been on the poll since 1946. warren buffett comes in fifth. newt gingrich and donald trump are tied for sixth. secretary of state hillary clinton is top of the list for women. oprah winfrey number two. michelle obama is third and fourth is sarah palin. fifth is condoleezza rice. forget about keeping up with the kardashians. an irish pop star shocked her fans with a shorter marriage. bigad shaban has those stories and more in today's eye on entertainment. >> reporter: sinead o'connor's latest marriage ended faster than kim kardashian's. ♪ and i see all of you >> the irish singer announced she's splitting with her husband after just 16 days of marriage. o'connor tied the knot in las vegas earlier this month with a therapist she met online. on her web site, she called the wedding a mistake and said her husband was under intense pressure to end their relationship. ♪ >>> as one marriage ends, a

gallup has revealed its hit parade. most admired people, here is the top five, barack obama at 17%, bush, clinton, graham and warren buffett he got in with 2%. his f first appearance. let's talk of the lower five. this is fascinating. tied in sixth place, newt gingrich, donald trump and pope benedict. he is tied with trump, not iowa but it could be a late poll but the most admired man, newt is probably insulted with that preferred to be tied with napoleon. most admired woman, in this hit parade. number one is hillary clinton. oprah is in second place and michelle obama, sarah palin and condi rice. and then lower five, tied, bachmann, ellen degeneres and majesty the queen. she has entered the iowa caucuses. if she gets a good fourth place finish it will give her strong head wind. what do you make of this list. >> if occupy wall street, it's an interesting list. i got a couple of folks i think we should probably add to it. some real american heroes. one is congressman paul ryan who i think has been terrific. then gabby gi

>> at gallup, we're behaviorists.ge. back at this point in '308, we had hillary clinton 20 points ahead of barack obama among democrats. john mccain was an asterisk. mitt romney was ahead of john mccain in november shall december of '07. of course, giuliani, fred thompson. go back to '04 shall the democrats, john kerry won. he was almost an asterisk. joe lieberman held higher than he did. in answer to your question, we'll see how much changes between now and january 3rd. but everything can change starting in january. these are very, very temporary positions. >> okay. susan, numbers aside. you participated in a focus group this week hosted by peter hart in battleground virginia. people gave gut reactions. here they are for strengths. proven track record, knows how the system works. negotiator and doer. weaknesses, more or less and marriages. what does gingrich have to do susan to maintain his front-runner status looking at the way people feel about him. >> it was interesting in the focus group among republican voters i

but if you look at his polling numbers, 41% approval in gallup up to 43% now. but still shallow by historical standards. in the modern era only jimmy carter had lower or near lower or near as low public approval ratings according to gallup at this stage of his presidency. everyone else was higher. jordan her better walker bush was higher at -- george herbert walker bush was higher at 56% and not predictive but is the white house confident that it is working and changing people's minds? >> one of the things that you hear them talking about at the white house is this sense that his number, overall job approval number could be lower and it's not lower. that's one. that for an economy that is this bad could be lower and they look deeper into the poll responses to particular kinds of policies. when john is describing public support for the payroll expansion and unemployment insurance which is very important to people who have no jobs and in red states also by the way also, the support there for whacking millionaires, to add a is your tax a. short -- sur tax, a short

only 11%, according to gallup, approving of the job congress is doing.aul is joining us on the republican line from pittsburgh. welcome to the program. caller: i sort of think that the low ratings are deserved by the republicans, the democrats, even the independence. all of them. -- independents. all of them. the one thing that they failed to do, all year long, was cut spending. all you hear from any of them, all day long, is how we can spend more money. the money we will spend to extend this unemployment compensation and payroll tax deduction is money that will probably be borrowed from china. we are selling short the social security trust fund, the money that should be going in to them. the real failure is a failure on the part of our politicians to talk about the one thing that is killing this country. spending, spending, spending. the answer from the democrats? keep raising the taxes. we have developed this class war fort -- warfare led by the president. this is where we are at. 25 years from now, we will not be having this discussion about social se

so we've seen the congressional approval is an all time low right it was eight percent now a new gallup poll has basically shown that legislators are the least trusted profession people think they have less integrity than car salesmen telemarketers and lobbyists how much we ever feels when it's a really sad day in america where instead of saying he looks like a sleazy car salesman about a congressman you now have to say about car salesman he looks like a sleazy congressman exactly that they've passed at this point you know the deer that lobbyists during the scandal congressman are even less trustworthy than lobbyists or about saying they're less trustworthy than the people who are paying like giving money to their campaigns to do what they say and you see gallup poll you know over the past ten years i think it is the congressional approval ratings have just sunk in so you can suck in their disfavor polls have risen to now we're at an all time high and they're the least trusted people basically of all time and you know it's really sad because labor sell for not trusting them they're not

poll, not a robo poll, a gallup poll, tea party people identify themselves as tea party republicans,r romney. 30-point spread. these are the type of voters you would assume will go to a caucus like iowa, and it has nothing to do with the infrastructure. they are going in there with what they have in mind which could help gingrich if these numbers are real and hold up. >> more than, that reverend, some of these people may have told folks that they were for them, that they were for a different candidate. that candidate may take them to the iowa caucuses and they may walk across the room and caucus, for example, with nutriknew. look, at the end of the day here, the most telling figure in that poll is not just the conservative figure. it's the moderate liberal figure. >> that's right. >> the only place where gingrich comes close. he basically -- where romney comes close, he basically ties gingrich is with moderates and liberals. guess how many of those there are in the republican primary and eslegsly in the republican electorate? if i were romney, that's why i'd be worried. that's why he

. >>> president obama's hawaiian holiday got a little bit brighter a new gallup tracking poll shows his approval rating has jumped to 47% with 45% disapproving. that's the first time his numbers have been in positive territory since july. nbc's kristen welker is live for must honolulu where the president is vacationing and where it is very early in the morning. thanks for getting up. i assume -- probably still too early for the president to have seen these numbers but this is a very good sign for the president, i would add the gallup number also, "washington post" poll showed 49 and disapprovaled a 47 a couple big polls were he is above water. what do they attribute it to? >> good morning, chris, white house hasn't responded to numbers yet, generally don't make too much of any given polling number but you are right, these number russ significant, positive, show that the president has rebounded from that bruising debt ceiling debate. they also come on the heels of some other good news for the president. as you know, he just won that victory in the payroll tax cut fight which is, of cours

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but here is another one only eleven percent of the country approves of congress the lowest since gallup began this poll and americans are disillusioned with their options for president in two thousand and twelve fewer than half of people in a usa today gallup poll say there is any candidate running republican or democrat who would make a good president at all so given this i asked max kaiser hey you know aren't these futures options at least a way that citizens can get something out of american politics. that's the most cynical thing i've heard all of their lord while some ocracy doesn't exist there's no representation old democracy in washington so let's turn it into a giant roulette wheel and it will make the lottery and make a few bucks on the collapse of the american empire wow that sounds fantastic and happy new year oh what was this is what has come to an america that there's no hope for a democratic election the elections are already rigged are you putting the potential of securitizing election rigging and putting into the hands of the john corps in the world we're going to secur

christmas came early for conservatives who hate government this week a new gallup poll came out showing sixty four percent of americans fear big government so needless to say g.o.p. t.v. a k. foxx so called news jumped on the story and plastered across the airwaves all day long fact i was invited on the fox business channel to talk about it and i actually agreed i fear big government to at least the sort of big government george w. bush and the republicans brought us. so first off what do you fear more most big government or big business hey dave i'm actually have concerns about both the i want to government this big enough to make sure that my food is safe that my roads work that the car you know that when i travel over here i don't get you know the streets are functional that the police are working that the fire department or the army but i really am not all that enthusiastic about a government that is looking into my e-mail or my personal mail without a warrant from a judge or you know there's got drones circling the sky watching all the way back to the george washington administrati

we did a study with a gallup poll and a jackson health, which interviewed doctors and found that the best estimate was that a hundred billion dollars a year is defensive medicine. -- $800 billion a year is defensive medicine. $800 billion, that is about 25% of all costs. if you're serious about health costs, one of the key things is litigation reform. gov. perry is a good friend of mine. the malpractice reforms in texas were quite important and effective. >> mr. speaker, thank you for standing up. we appreciate the in th youre race -- that you're in the race. thank you for welfare reform. i am the chairman of your south carolina social conservative coalition. . . policies pushed by the nation called health and human services and education of the united states. they are indoctrinating the next generation and to give us a chance to push back. as a result pregnancy rates across the nation among teenagers has gone down almost 50%. you don't hear that on the evening news, so thank you for that. but there is a culture war and i wonder, if you given any thought to the effect in education ha

gallup said it best, 86% are disappointed with the governance they see. >> how do you get past the questionsf what makes you think this will work? you have to draft snb and get somebody from across the aisle on a ticket. what makes people take this seriously enough to say, hey, this is a viable third way? >> sure. this is absolutely serious, and the challenges that we're facing right now in this country are extremely serious. 50-state ballot access is as real as it gets. by christmastime 294 electoral votes are in play, and there's going to be a third ticket on the ballot in all 50 states. so we look at where the country is at right now. people are craving stable solutions and they don't see it out of either of the parties. this allows the american people to self-correct and support tickets we've never seen as americans. a democrat with an independent, a republican with a democrat. we've never seen that. >> this is happening now. we've had more than 2 million people sign our petitions to put americans elect on the ballot. people come on to our website, people that are registered voters in th

but there's a new -- there's new, you know, a new report came out recently from gallup that had some very interesting statistics. and that one of them was that while we talk about income equality and the president is certainly advancing that narrative, the american people really don't see it that way. the majority does not feel that income equality is the big problem that it's being advanced as. and the other thing, the other kind of interesting thing that may influence how the election goes, the general election specifically, is that democrats, more democrats think that big government is the problem. suddenly, they're seeing government as the problem, rather than republicans. so that's just an interesting thing to watch. >> david, i actually think it's not just anger. it's cynicism. in part because almost everything that they've been told in the last five years turned out not to be true. and if you go back farther than that, about how iraq and afghanistan would work out and how swiftly it would work out, and then when the recession began, we can work our way out of that, and they we