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President Obama’s approval rating is now 46.9 percent in the RealClearPolitics average, his highest figure since June 2013. His approval rating exceeds his disapproval rating in several recent polls, which has been a rarity for most of his second term. It’s probably just a random fluctuation, or a result of the solid jobs numbers recent. But who knows: Maybe Obama looks a little better in comparison to the unpopular set of candidates they’ve been seeing and hearing so much from lately.

Huckabee isn’t “feeling the Bern.” That shouldn’t be too surprising given that he is a Republican. What I’d like to know is who are the 13 percent of self-identified Republicans who had a positive view of socialism in a November 2015 CBS News/New York Times survey.

One reason Gilmore took so long — all his time before and through the bell — prefacing his call to not scapegoat Muslims with a condemnation of radical Islam: Many Americans have negative views of Muslims. An ABC News/Washington Post poll last month found that 28 percent of Americans think mainstream Islam encourages violence, double the proportion in January 2002. And 14 percent in the poll last month said Muslims experience discrimination that is justified.