former governor jim gilmore and bernard whitman. it is somewhat unusual for poll numbers to go up after an election when the other party gained so much ground. president bush's approval rating went from 38% to 33%. president clinton's approval rating from 46% to 43%. bernard, you're the pollster here, what do you make of the numbers for president obama? >> the numbers are flat. but we had a couple things working in our favor for the democrats. good job's report and the nation added 151,000 jobs in october that was reported last week. the president's ten-day trip to asia got a lot of positive buzz and i think the president did admit some mistakes. you know, a lot of people in this country accuse the president of being arrogant and he came out after the elections on wednesday and admitted that he had made a tough road of it. had made some mistakes with regard to health care and regard to his tone on getting bipartisanship on things like the economy. so, i think that olive branch, that tone combined with positive news on the job's repo