Dan Balz, from the Washington Post, appeared on Monday evening's Hugh Hewitt Radio Show to discuss how the Ebola crisis would affect the perception of the Obama Administration. ​

Balz asserted that people are scared about Ebola and that it feeds the notion (created by recent Obama foreign policy failures) that things around the world have begun to spin out of control, which can't be good.

Hewitt: Dan Balz, let me ask you about the key thing now in the last, the wild card. The October surprise is a surprise that nobody wanted. It’s Ebola. This afternoon, a Spanish health care worker has been diagnosed with it in Spain. She had treated a priest who had come back from Africa. There is an admitted child in Florida. I hope to God she hasn’t got this, but they’re testing her. There have been tests that have not turned out badly in Howard University, another test in other places in the country. How is this going to impact the public’s opinion of the President, if at all, in your opinion?

Balz: I don’t know how it affects the opinion of the President. I’m pretty confident that it plays into this notion that things have sort of begun to spin out of control around the world, and that some of it may be coming home with this Ebola crisis. People are nervous about this. They’re scared. I watched a couple of focus groups a few weeks ago that my colleague, Karen Tumulty, ended up writing about. And the number of people who volunteered when they were asked kind of how things were going, how do you see the country at this point, a number of them volunteered that they were scared, that they were nervous, and probably a bigger percentage than we’ve seen in a long time. And when that happens, it puts people on the defensive as they think about these votes. But at this point, I don’t know whether that directly affects their perception of the President. But if they think that things are not going well, it’s not helpful to the party that holds the White House.