with us now, jonathan altar jim saider.t up and speaking of such things, republican strategist, essy tufts. which also comes with a very powerful mouth. some of the polling news out of the day, specially the racial devid. if you look at the data, it's fairly blunt. overall, the presidential approval rating, 45%. nonh nonhispanic blacks -- you were saying these drive you raicrazy. >> they do. it doesn't really tell us anything. this is not a conversation starter. it's a conversation ender. we don't know why non hispanics and blacks still approve of obama and we don't know if all of obama's critics are white racists. i think a lot of media organizations trot these polls out in an attempt to tell some story that isn't there. >> the whole story about the left and liberals and democrats deserting obama is overblown. you can see his numbers are still holding up there. in fact, moderates still 54%, still support him. we're at numbers that basically clinton was out. reagan was a little under. george herbert walker bush was the only