unfavorablety at a whopping 56% for donald trump now to 41.ruz 31 in late january, no change. and for marco rubio, unflavorablety, roughly the same. and what about optimism? it used to be a truism that in any political confrontation, the more optimistic candidate won. among the candidates working hard to win over evangelicals, they seem to be in an arms race to describe the country in the most dire terms. is attracting white conservative christian voters now defining america in the dreariest of terms. bill what do you think? >> well, if you -- if you look at public opinion surveys, or just listen to the voices around you, there's no question about the fact that certain proportions of the electorate genuinely believe that the united states has declined significantly from its economic, its cultural, and its global peak; that we are spirally downward, and that very strong action is going to be needed to arrest the decline and make america great again. and trump with his astonishing untutored intuition, felt that and spoke to it in the bluntest po