he's served as ceo of gallup. his most recent innovation, the gallup world poll is designed to give the world's 6 billion citizens a voice in virtually all key global issues. under his leadership, gallup has expanded from a predominantly u.s.-based company to a worldwide organization with 40 offices in 30 countries and regions. jim is also the creator of the gallup path, a metric-based economic model that establishes the linkaj among human being and business outcomes. . this model is used in performance management systems in more than 500 companies worldwide. please welcome gallup chairman and ceo, jim clifton. [ applause ] >> thank you very much, governor. it's a big highlight to be here and thank you for your partnership. by the way, i don't know if you know this or not, dave, i was born in me brace can. i live here in. i have a in new york. a story that follows nebraskans on the east coast. it's not a joke, it's story. nebraska was playing oklahoma years ago, we used to have these big knockout, dragout games. t

since 1988 jim has served as a leader of gallup. his most recent innovation, the gallup world poll, is designed to give the world's 6 billion citizens a voice in virtually all key global issues. under his leadership gallup was expanded from a predominantly u.s.-based company to a worldwide organization with 40 offices in 30 countries and regions. jim is also the creator of the gallup path, a metric based economic model that establishes the linkage among human nature in the workplace, customer engagement, and business outcomes. this model is used in performance management systems in more than 500 companies worldwide. please welcome gallup chairman and ceo jim clifton. >> thank you very much, governor hyneman. it is a big highlight for me to be here. thank you for your partnership. i don't know if you know this or not. i was born and raised in nebraska. now i live here in washington, d.c. i have an office in new york and i go back and forth. this is not a joke but it's a story. nebraska was playing oklahoma years ago and we used to ha

by the way, gallup just gave it as a gift to the country. if you go on gallup.com you have a thing that your schools can just plug in right there to measure how much innovation, energy, and how much entrepreneur energy and then how many are in internships. whatever your internship number three or five e, it's too low. times. >> governor, go ahead. >> let's say we solve the issue on having -- teaching folks how to be entrepreneurs. and then we solve the issue on regulation so we have governments that have found ways to make it much more easier to do business. now, the statement you made, there are certain successful communities, 4.9% unemployment, something like that, and then of course places, small communities like guam, 13% or some other areas where again over 9. the question i have is there, in fact, it's a two-part question. you need a customer. it ultimately comes to you need a customer. and is there enough to, let's

. >>> según la encuesta gallup, san francisco y san josé son de las más felices de américa. >>> sí, yoalidad, hay gente de todos lados, todos están abiertos, entonces, esto crea como un ambiente de confianza, de felicidad. >>> algunso dicen que alguna razón principal es que san francisco les da la oportunidad de ganar más dinero. >>> personalmente el trabajo, porque es, pagan bien, es buen dinero. >>> josé luis pérez, dice que a él es este trabajo que lo hace feliz. >>> no tengo jefe, entro a la hora que quiero, termino a la hora que quiero. >>> entonces, usted es feliz por el trabajo que hace. >>> sí, claro, muy feliz. >>> mientras que en san josé, el ambiente de fiesta, hace que esta ciudad esté en la lista de las más felices. >>>el clima, la gente. >>> según los residentes vivir rodeados de teatros, parques, los hace sentir cómodos y seguros. >>> hoy es domingo, es tarde, y puedo salir a cualquier parte de san josé y sentirme libre, seguro. >>> según la encuesta gallup, aunque san francisco tiene solo un promedio de 160 días soleados al año, el clima sigue siendo una de las principa

the government has 60, gallup does it about 30. the government does it one week and gallup a month.e're talking 140 million people, trying to figure out if the number is 8.5 or 8.1. they're in the same range. i think gallup does a nice job in getting there. the actual details are less -- i'm not sure anybody is picking it up. >> you had some remedial training in moscow. welch -- >> jack? nice. >> you said something pro-business or pro-capitalism and he said -- he didn't have enough exclamation points to ask me what happened to you. >> how am times have i said -- >> i think you told me this story one time. >> yesterday or the day before you were solidly with someone -- >> on the notion of -- >> it was yesterday. >> jobless claims and the effect of long-term unemployment. >> it was yesterday. >> the problem is it ruins your whole schick about the stereotype. >> it wouldn't be the rule without the exception. >> you told me a story, i think it was you, steve, years ago about how in moscow it stunned you because when going to the grocery store here in the united states you look for the b

and we now have really good studies at gallup, again, that if you have a appy friend, your happiness your happy friend has a happy friend that you don't know, it goes up another 10%, and the happy friend's happy friend don't kkow, it keeps going up. >> chopra: ss the best way to -- to get rid of your enemy is to enlarge the capacity for happiness. >> smith: to turn your enemy into the solution to your problem. >> chopra: yeah, absolutely. and the more yoo engage people.you know, on twitter i send a message ut to almost a million people every day, make one person happy by just listtning to them, by telling them that yoo care or noticing something good about them, and let them do it, and we could easily have a pandemic of happiness aaross tte world. happiness. >> chopra: yes. >> smith: that's my kind of pandemii. that's a good.that's a [ applause ]deal. all right. well, uch more we could discuss. we're out of time. it's just an honor to get to few minutes, and you know, you put me in a better mind just, off the bat, so it's. >> chopra: thank you, thank yyu. >> smith: a great thing. and

dakota has been ranked number one in the nation in job creation for each of the last three years by a gallup poll study. we have created a friendly business climate in north dakota. taxes and insurance rates are low. the regulatory environment is reasonable, and we have the most responsive state government anywhere. companies want to expand in north dakota because of the ease of doing business and because of our well-educated, well-trained work force. why do fortune 500 companies like caterpillar, amazon.com and john deere choose to expand in north dakota when they could go anywhere in the world? they do it because they know that north dakota people are friendly towards business and will work hard to help their employers be successful. our economic success is broad-based. we have thousands of job openings in north dakota today. but almost every day the national media asks me if it isn't all due to the oil boom in northwestern north dakota. i enjoy telling them the county with the most job openings is not among western oil counties, but is the county surrounding fargo, our largest city and on

but according to a gallup poll over record number of americans forty percent now identify themselves as political independence there are many people who have expressed dissatisfaction with the current system but they seem resigned to the notion that those people who are currently in positions of power or not going to want any sort of change and that we're not likely to see change anytime soon for an independent or third party candidate getting on a general election ballot is considered a doomed task in the us ralph nader an independent a renowned lawyer consumer rights advocate ran for the presidency six times harder to get on the ballot in this country by far than any western democracy fifty different state was hundreds of different county laws it's a total nightmare created by the two parties to. it competition is very skewed to party. code to our police and they're all fighting for osha sleep over who's going to go to the white house so they can take up residence and to take the orders from their core group a masters but some analysts say the system works in a way to avoid any rea

and gallup, the gallup organization asked, what do you think of the individual mandate? which is the central pillar of this law. without it the whole thing falls apart. 72%, according to gallup, 72% said the individual mandate is unconstitutional. think about this. this is remarkable. this is remarkable. after debating this for the better part of three years, more than 7 out of 10 americans -- not just here, across this whole country. more than seven out of ten of us believe that the central core pillar of this law violates the united states constitution. so all of the statistics and all the polls that i just quoted lead us to one lesson and that lesson is we have won this debate. we have won this argument. despite years of a deliberate misinformation campaign from democrats, the president, and a lap dog obseek was media, we have won this debate. round one goes to good guys. round two is next. and this is as we learned in 2010 just winning the argument does not necessarily impact legislative outcomes. right? and so we thank and salute the house of representatives for vot

we have had a steady closing in the gallup poll between santorum and me every single week now for the last two weeks. i'm very confident that in the larger state that is going to vote tuesday, georgia, which has more delegates than any other state we're going to win a very, very desistive victory. we've going to do pretty well, i think in tennessee and oklahoma and ohio and a number of other states and i'm happy to continue -- i have basically a big solutions campaign, proposals like a personal social security savings account for younger americans and, you know, i think santorum gets out of the industrial states and gets into states where having voted against right to work, having voted for davis bacon on behalf of unions to cause billions of dollars of extra payments by the government. having voted for every single minimum wage the union has asked for, i think he has a much harder time when we go outside of places like michigan so this is going to be a long nominating process. >> apparently, no one seems ready to get out least of all you. let me turn you to some of the issues that yo

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the sign that frontrunner status and momentum is back on mitt gallup national tracking poll conductedartially after the primaries in arizona and michigan showing romney out to a big lead on the morning caucuses. but ii wasnt all joy for tte romney campaign -- beeause the old rap on him -- the charge that he flip flops on pooicy issues.. reeurraced in a big way. the issse was romney's initial posstion on in the senate that would have allowed heallh insurance plans po deny contraceptive coverage sponsor or employer's a - asked about it on ednesdayy romney said this.."i'm not for of presidential candidates getting into questtons about contraception within a relationship between man and a woman, husband and wife, i'm not going there."romney quickly clarified --saying he and that he actually supported thh proposal which had been introduced by republican mmssouri senator roy blunt -- as a conservative response to a nee and connroversial obama pdministration rule."yeah, i'm in favor of thh blunt amendment."but by then romnny had ooened himself up to the charge ttat he'd tried to do a switche

. >> the gallup poll shows 85% of s want president obama immediatess to take on the rising gas prices20% said they will make e changes if gas prices over $4 a gallon. the national average is getting at $3.76.hat >> here is your metro weakened alert. work will cause delays on the five metro lines. the oneline will be most affected. shuttle buses will run between circle and van ness. you can expect 20 minutes delays every line but the green mind. -- green line. be a very niceto weekend. in other warmup coming our way next week. -- and other warm up coming our week.xt this is arlington, looking across the city. nothing but clear skies. it is going to get chilly tonight. the winds have been gusting. 46 degrees on the boardwalk. the beaches are going to get crowded. t of folks are waiting for the warmer weather. 67 degrees at reagan national airport. around a winds blowing of tree pollen. 741 is the count. the wins will be able letter tomorrow. -- winds will be a little tomorrow. pittsburgh, 34 in detroit. the coldest air will shift to the east. us tonightill help theuse that will keep tem

you have nbc/"new york times" -- >> i will say the gallup -- joe, the gallup track has seemed over the last couple of years to be quite volatile and i will say when they had obama on the down side, the obama people were very scornful of that poll. >> so now they like it. >> no, no, but i'm saying that that is reason to question -- if you've got a series of polls. we saw abc/"washington post" yesterday showing obama ticking down a few points. if you've got a couple of other major polls ticking down and gallup ticking up, i go with the ones showing him ticking down. >> i will tell you, john, just to give you fair warning. if you're not doing better when there's three guys tearing themselves apart when they actually do choose one and if it were to be romney and you start focusing on him and he starts being able to just direct his fire at president obama, i would think it probably would -- this is like the best of times for the current administration. it's only going to get worse from here. but then it swings back and forth. >> but then does it make it all that much more important? this co

there's gallup.em to agree that obama seems strong at this moment. >> we have seen some up and downs. >> what you see though is -- a lot of people have looked at those two polls and said there were fewer democrats. and that's a fair point. but you'll have that sometimes. you'll have variation. 10% of democrats do not approve of the president. and that's millions of people. so you can get one of those. >> let's broaden this out as you have in your piece. you were looking at the democratic party overall. we're looking at the house races. this is where this might become relevant. >> the democratic brand has opened up the greatest margin since april of 2009. that's a significant change. when you went into the elections, they were about the same. with a little bit of enthusiasm boost on the republican side, you saw a surge at the polls for them. if you get enough of a gap on the democratic side where people are leaning in that direction and plus some enthusiasm for the incumbent with a lot of money, you c

that is the highest he has been in the gallup poll nine months. it suggests to me that they took into account the weekend. if you look at the cbs or abc poll, they started polling last wook -- last week, wednesday, thursday, friday, the key is friday, the jobs report came out friday. which was is sixth straight good news of jobs. we had high job growth and signs the recovery is afoot. the news of the middle of last week which proceeded the jobs report, was heavy on the crisis in iran, that may be what is at play in the early polls and the jobs caught the gallup poll. >> there's something to the gas prices, there's an effect that it has on gdp. it was early in the morning, it was talked about that the rise in the price of fuel has a ripple effect in terms of the other commodities. >> sure, it raises the price of food. >> and we have the times poll that said 54% of americans think the gas prices are something that the president can do something about. more telling, 39% of americans approve of how he is handling the economy and 54% disapprove. this i

. >> gallup showed the exact same thing about the democratic primary in 2008. 56-35, democrats said the primary was doing more harm than good in march. in april -- >> that wasn't reality. >> that that's my point. >> it feels worse than it does after it was over. >> turnout wasn't down like in the republican system. >> let's check in with wolf. >> let's look at tennessee and oklahoma first. the votes are starting to come in. we have not made a projection in neither of these states, although santorum according to exit polls is ahead. with 1% of voters in, santorum is showing that lead, 48% to 23% for mitt romney, newt gingrich, 26%, 6% for ron paul. oklahoma, very early. you see only a handful of votes coming in. not able to make a projection in oklahoma or tennessee for that matter. wait and see. both of the exit polls in both of those states showed santorum i had. let's look at ohio. real votes coming in. several,000 right now. mitt romney maintaining his lead at 40%. 10,578, with rick santorum at 9,770, newt gingrich, ron paul in fourth place. let's go to john king. in this kind of sit

so i am going to read to you a gallup poll.a gallup poll of likely republican and republican-lean republican-leaning independent which show a pretty tepidguys 35% responded that they are enthusiastically going to vote for romney. 34 for santorum and 28% for gingrich. how do you get the partiesy strongly behind the nominee. >> it's 6:40 in california in march. if you were citing that to me in august, i would be concerned. >> i agree. >> we have three different candidates and it hasn't come down to a one on one race. once once it goes one on one which will be no later than june, then it's going to be a clear contrast between obama's policies and lack of a plan and the republican's policies and their plan. and that's when you will see a change in those polls. >> you know, this lack of a plan thing, you are driving me crazy. let's listen to one of the big things he did. >> out of gas and we need someone with new energy. >> well, you've got a few gas bags on your side that can infuse a lot but not the energy we need. the obama campa

the latest gallup poll shows republic voters are actually more enthusiastic now than they were in the8 point margin republicans are more enthusiastic about the election than democrats. compared to four years ago by a 9 point margin more republicans are more enthusiastic than they were in 2008. and then democrats compared to four years ago, their enthusiasm is off fully 34 points. so, when it comes to where the energy and intensity level is, according to gallup it's on the right. the republicans are way more enthusiastic than democrats. >> shepard: state of maryland became the eighth state to legalize gay marriage. signed a bill hours ago saying we are one maryland. that law will not actually take effect until next year and opposition groups say they will try to overturn it in a referendum this november. gay marriage is right now legal in massachusetts, connecticut, iowa, vermont, new hampshire, new york, d.c., and washington state. it's supposed to start giving out marriage licenses to same sex couples this summer but today maryland as governor o'malley put ink to the paper. a cripple

approval rating went just a couple weeks ago he was tired or behind both candidates in the nationwide gallup polls. the president is ahead by double digits in virginia, a double digits in ohio. it is not up to me to decide on this show whether the republican party looks like it is conducting a war against women. you can see swing voters, independence, and women especially feel the way. five is a real problem for the republican party, and it is a wrong they are going to have to go right. >> super tuesday of we said earlier, let me ask you whether or not it is the case this race would already be over were a not for these super pak pimp daddies, pick a phrase, but were it not for these handful of people pumping in all this money, this race would have already been over? >> as you know, you are going to have them on sides, and it is something i think we are going to have to deal with over the next couple years. there is no doubt about it. bricks santorum would be out of the race right now if he did not have somebody funding of super pak. newt gingrich would have left a long time ago if he did not

according to the gallup poll an overwhelming number of consumers, 85%, say president obama and congressd take immediate action to keep a lid on prices. after nearly four weeks of daily price increases, regular gasoline averages $3..76 nationwide, higher in the bay area, where the average price is $4.40 in san francisco. >>> already that time of year again where we spring forward to daylight savings time. standard time ends and daylight time begins at 2 a.m. sunday morning, so don't forget to set your clockses ahead one hour before going to bed on saturday night. fire officials say this is also a good time to change the batteries in your smoke alarms. >>> good afternoon. another enjoyable day over the bay area. your friday looking good. temperatures even slightly warmer than where we saw 24 hours ago. we do have changes. today we're potentially squeezing out the last warm day where temperatures are going to be above normal. cooler and even wetter weather in store for your weekend. stormtracker 2 showing you a little bit of coastal fog lurkinging right off the coastline tomorrow morning.

if you count those who are underemployed and those who dropped out gallup reports real number is 19%. >> reporter: gingrich also argued the president wants gas prices to go up so americans will turn to greener technologies. all the candidates are calling for more oil exploration, a message that plays well here in the gulf. >> the use of drilling rigs in the gulf is the lowest of any place in the world, lowest utilization. that's because of this president and the moratorium he put in place that's illegal. >> reporter: this veegz recovering from a trio of setbacks -- hurricane katrina, the gulf oil spill, and the economic recession, so voters here told us jobs are still their number one concern despite the recent uptick in hiring. terrell. >> brown: among the americans going back to work in growing numbers are senior citizens. as jim axelrod tells us, their return to the workforce isn't necessarily a sign of economic health. >> reporter: when ericka weidner gets her hands on movie tickets, she's not thinking about a senior's discount. she's just worried she's ripping them right. >> thea

. >> a recent gallup poll shows 57% of americans want the government to approve the keystone xl pipeline. 29% of those polled are against it. house speaker, john boehner, said the president's event yesterday was nothing more than a photo op. >> the only recent action the president has taken on energy involved lobbying senators personally and successfully. to prevent construction of the keystone pipeline. there's a big gap between whey the president promises and what he talks about. i think honest, hard-working taxpayers deserve actions that match boards. >>> analysts say construction of the southern pipeline wouldn't be finished until 2014 at the earliest. still ahead at way too elderly, the ncaa sweet 16 is under way, with syracuse fighting for a spot in the elite eight. how the orangemen are faring without their big guy. plus, pat robertson weighs in on tim tebow's future. >>> a whole lot healthier from this moment on. ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states of america, barack obama. [ degeneres ] what's more beautiful than a covergirl? two covergirls. that's right. ge

it feels to so many of us that it's hurting republicans rrk but a gallup poll shows that republicansemocrats. and as for if romney's performance is a sign of things to come. hillary won in three states, and barack obama won. it's not an indication of what is going to hap in in the general, and the final point i make is where romney is running well in ohio and where he's running weak. the assumption is he's not going to do well in the fall. >> look, first of all, eric knows better than i know in terms of whether republicans will land in the conservative base, but given the turnout across the board, and airy and i have different numbers, but the republicans are not turning out. they're not enthusiastic about the choices they see on the ballot. they're not participating in the preprimary or pree caucus activities that normally indicate that there's some enthusiasm in the party. i think this is a weak field, and once again tonight, we see ohio. voters are basically holding their nose. >> turnout has been up in ohio this year versus 2008. >> it was down in georgia. >> about 100,000. >> oh

you have a president that's generally been under 50% gallup approval. he's actually under 45% approval in 12 battle ground states right now in the latest polling. mitt romney has weaknesses. but he would not be running against bill clinton. he's also running against a candidate that has significant problems appeal to go white working class voters, significant charisma challenges of his own to some extent. these are both serious, credible candidates that could win assuming that's the match-up. >> i think president obama has a couple things going for him. one is 71% of the people like him. mitt romney... in the final analysis before they vote for you, they generally have to like you. but michael is right that presidents who are under 50% in the gallup poll in positive job rating have a tough time getting re-elected. michael worked for one of the few who did, george w. bush, 48% in 2004. generally speaking if you're at 45% you're not going to get a second term. >> woodruff: we're giving you all a second chance. we're looking forward to having you back on t

that's off the gallup poll. let's talk.ohn lonski, and we welcome back my pal, cnbc's rick santelli. so, rick, you think the gallop crowd is right? wall street's optimistic about a couple hundred thousand new jobs and maybe a steady unemployment rate. do you think the gallop guy's right we'll jump to 9.1? >> in an apples to apples comparison, keep in mind that they're talking about i non-seasonally adjusted rate and if you look back at the mid-month move which moved higher, and you factor in the seasonalities, you're talking about a half a percent lower if you adjust it. the same is true for the government, actually. if you took that 8.3 last month and looked at that time nonseasonally adjusted it would move to 8.8. i think the long and short of it is is i do think the mid-month trend of moving higher is accurate and it goes along with the employment indices and the survey, but for me, the issue is the total amount of employ and the shrinkage that we've seen in the counting of the unemployed. why is jobs important, larry? t

a 2001 gallup poll of americans found 70% support medical marijuana, but even in liberal d.c. some residents are skeptical. >> i don't think they should do that because that's giving everybody a reason to do it. >> reporter: under the d.c. health department's timetable cultivators will be all inned friday. dispensaries will be named in early -- will be named friday. dispensaries will be named in early june. the first medical marijuana sales possible in d.c. could happen no sooner than august. >>> if you thought you saw batman in silver spring last week, your eyes did not deceive you. montgomery county police released video of a batman impersonator pulled over for a traffic stop and it didn't take long for the jokes to start especially when the dispatcher asked if the officer needed some backup. >> you can send me robin, if you wish. >> lenny robinson was driving his lamborghini bat mobile without proper plates. robinson may not be a real superhero, but he is using his powers for good. he dresses up in the bat suit to visit children in local hospitals. police eventually let him

you look at the gallup numbers, i closed the gap on santorum dramatically in the last two and a half weeks. this is the seventh time that you and i have talked about it. this is the seventh time i've been through the up and down cycle. we survived donald trump, and perry and cane again, and now santorum. so we're going to -- twice i've been the front-runner. by focusing on big ideas like a national energy strategy and american energy strategy with 2.50 a gallon gasoline and an ability to say no future president will ever again bow to a saudi king, i think i'm begining to come back to my job which is a visionary skefrnative who offers bigger, better solutions for the future. that's what i do best. and twice that's put me in the lead nationally, and now i have to kert that to delicates. >> bob: i take it you're thinking if you win in georgia, that gives you a good chance in alabama. >> and so you don't see this thing ending any time soon. do you think there's a chance anybody else will get in the race? >> i think it would be very hard for anybody else to get in the race. we chatted bri