good morning to you, scott rasmussen. >> good morning. bill: i'm fine.s going on, do you think? >> right now raising cain has everything to do with the fact that a lot of republicans are looking for somebody to fill the role of i'm not mitt romney. romney, clearly, has the support of the base of the party. a month ago rick perry was in that role, two months ago it was michele bachmann. now it's cain's turn. bill: if it changes that often, is there anything in your numbers that tells you cain has staying power? >> nothing in the numbers, what we have to see is how does herman cain perform now? rick perry came in as a front runner, and he stumbled in the debates. herman cain is facing some challenges about his 9-9-9 plan. people are starting to raise other questions on other issues, is he up to the job. he has a platform now to make the case that he is the candidate. but it's entirely up to how he performs going forward that will determine it. bill: i golf -- i gotcha on that. you also went to iowa, and in that polling cain got 40% of the vote. he was stil

joining us now is scott rasmussen of rasmussen reports. t poll with the very next poll, which actually says that the fewer people agree with our initial u.s. military involvement in libya. more people say obama's response was good, but fewer agree with our initial involvement. how do you make sense of that? >> there is two different time frames. he's got a nice bounce in the polls from the last week because the mission was accomplished. gadhafi, people expected that he would be removed there power. people were waiting for this. it put a nice way to wrap up the military aspect of this. the other question about the decision to get involved, the president never convinced the american people that the national security interest of our country would stay here. one in four ever believed that. americans overwhelmingly say there is no reason to send u.s. troops abroad unless our interests are at stake. >> gregg: scott, let's switch to campaign 2012. how is the president stacking up against some of the leading gop candidates? >> the top two candidate

lots bring in the pollster himself, scott rasmussen. he joins us from new jersey. okay, scott. let's talk about this extreme measure here. the american people are watching this whole process play out in washington, waiting for the debt commission, super committee, the jobs bill road blocked in congress. and yet, the republicans are almost seen as extreme as the democrats. >> look, voters are unhappy with both political parties. they know the economy stinks. they think there is plenty of blame to go around. you mentioned 51% say bush got us into the mess. but 50% say the obama policies made things worse. voters right now are just looking at washington as completely out of touch and three out of four people say you know what? we don't think anything will get done on any of the pressing issues before election 2012 has come and gone. >> laura: scott, let's talk about what happened since the president has gone on the, quote, offensive. a lot of democrats are happy he's taking the fight to the republicans. he's no longer no drama obama. he's in the fight. but that's been about five,

scott rasmussen of rasmussen reports joins us now.hanks for being with us. >> happy to be with you, patti ann. patti ann: if it doesn't as we mentioned, there's an automatic trigger for steep cuts in certain areas. >> well, but they trigger doesn't take effect until 2013. so that gives congress plenty of time to change their mind on that as well. the real story of this poll is skepticism and cynicism. if a deal is reached, and if they somehow came up with a plan to raise taxes on the wealthy and cut spending, three out of four americans, 72% say they think middle class taxes will go up as well. so they're not buying this argument that they're hearing. in fact, and patti ann, i can't begin to overemphasize the cynicism. most americans say they don't expect the president or congressional republicans to put forth a serious plan before election 2012. and most say if a deal is reached, it will raise taxes too much and cut spending too little. patti ann: that leads to the next question. you asked folks what worries them the most that the go

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scott rasmussen is here. what do you attribute that virtual tie to?blican party to find a challenger to mitt romney. he's clearly going to be a finalist in this race and every month it seems there is a new challenger. right now herman cain has the chance to make his case. why should he be president of the united states and see if he can convince enough republican primary votator stay alive. the other big story here, a name you didn't mention, rick perry, a month or so ago he was on top of the polls. had some tough debates, tough discussions about illegal immigration. now before a single vote has been cast, we're seeing him sink into single digits. >> i think he's this year's version of the why rudy guiliani crash and burn. if you get rid of all of the other candidates, bachman and perry and huntsman and even newt gingrich and you just have cain and romney what, do you have there? >> a dead heat. 4 #% for cain. 42% for romney. some people are surprised at this. they were saying, obvious low all the perry people or bachman people would go to cain. that'

joining us now, the president of rasmussen reports, scott rasmussen with more on this.. the take is that herman cain now has his 15 minutes to really make his case. i think the most significant number for him is the 37% don't have an opinion one way or the other. he can still way that. for rick perry, he's struggling. the other thing that's significant here, when we focus it on republicans, the people who will pick their party's nominee, 64% say mitt romney is qualified. 52% say rick perry is qualified. by a 49-17 margin, they say herman cain is qualified. so long way to go on this one. >> kelly: scott, let's talk about governor chris christie. he's constantly saying no, no, no. in fact, how many times can you say no, right? and yet, many people within the republican party, the leadership of the republican party even, appear to be reaching out to him, saying dude, you got to run. >> heather: dude? you use that word, dude? >> i'm not sure that was the technical term they used, but we did find out in polling that right now he's behind by a 44 to 43 to president obama. tha

scott rasmussen and company called 1,000 republican primary voters and no surprise, mitt romney stillcain now tied with him. but look at this, newt gingrich is in double digits. he's at 10%. >> he's on the move. i don't know, our digital, chief digital editor says if you look for gingrich to move, move up and it looks like he is starting to move up. governor perry will be joining us shortly on this show. he is fourth. he's actually coming up in 20 minutes. he is fourth and that's got to be a discouraging number. >> right. also in the poll, 51% expect romney to be the nominee. but a majority of them think that either cain or romney could beat president obama. >> newt gingrich has done so well in these debates, that's not a surprising number. if there were to be any kind of a prediction, you might say that he will continue to go up in the polls. there's 13 more debates coming up. if he continues to do well, that could play to his advantage. >> in florida, the american research group did a poll. cain is up on romney by seven and newt is in double digits, the only other one with 11. >> ri

moines register, 400 likely caucus voters that sit in the dinners and have the conversation and scott rasmussen he turn it around, absolutely. in the iowa poll, a large number of people haven't made up their minds and two months until they start voting in iowa, so, this race is wide open and i think there are a couple of key points. one, romney may be the front runner, but he's a very vulnerable front runner and the fact he's only at 22%, that shows that, what, about 80%, four out of five republicans still aren't sold on him and they've got plenty of time to think about him and he's been running for president for five years now. so he's very vulnerable. en herman cain, the only thing to say he's for real. particularly interesting thing, the poll came out after the mishaps in the debate and speeches afterwards appearances afterwards and indicated he might be soft on pro-life, on abortion and might favor choice in some instances. >> right it. >> doesn't seem to have hurt him. and my theory, he's not a professional politician and i think that voters are cutting him some slack saying he's going to

according to a new rasmussen reports poll, voters are nearly split between liking and disliking the protesters. but a larger paringsage has no opinion at all. thanks for joining us, scottith you. that last number, the fact that a plurality had no opinion is the key. normally, the negatives go up faster than positives. we will be tracking it next week. >> you know, scott, you got down to some very specific ideology and statements by this particular group. you polled whether folks agree with the statement that the big banks got bailed out and the middle class got left behind. what did you find? >> that came from a protester chant. 79% of americans agree. overwhelming support. it is tapping into the same hatred of the bailouts that the tea party capitalized on. the tea party basically says, nobody should get bailed out. near as i can tell, the up on wall street answer is, where's our bailout? >> it's clear that the majority of the protesters, they do unbelievable more government regulation of big businesses. they think that will help the middle class. but the majority not in sync with that, right? >> not at all. 60% say that the better way to help the middle class is for