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good evening, everyone. im erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, the presidents math doesnt add up. in a rose garden announcement today, president obama called for a one-year extension of the bush tax cuts for families who make up to $250,000. so, for those families who make $250,000 or more, their taxes will go up in january. >> i believe our prosperity has always come from an economy thats built on a strong and growing middle class. so my message to congress is this, pass a bill extendin...

Minutes ago in the east of the country. so theres been trouble. 101 polling stations could not open today because of the trouble, but the observers there say 94% of all polling stations in libya were functioning. they dont know yet what the turnout was. well find out soon. but of the 2.8 million voters in libya, a country of only 600 million people, it seems that t election has been calm, a great success in democracy so far in libya today. >> martin, do you have a percentage of those 2.8 that ar...

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The increase is in their portfolios. we all need to know. and everyone has their own. you have your own cost of living increase and you have your own. >> for people who live in atlanta, georgia, according to the government, the consumer price index cost has gone up 2.8%. you say its gone up 10%. lets look at kansas city, missouri, the government says the cost of living is at 4%. you say its double that. and you look at new york city, you say its close to 12%. >> look, ive been here, you know, fo...

Say. i dont know about that. well give them their numbers to show you how their numbers work. that would get romney up to 219. okay. if he wins those three states. thats fine. now lets move on to part two of this plan if you will. and that takes us to number two of that strategy and that is winning both florida and ohio. both states that flipped from red to blue in 2008. president obama won florida by 2.8 points and ohio by 4.6%. okay. lets give him those two. again, well talk about this later b...

College votes. 78 in the electoral college if you take 39 away from obama and add them to the republicans. 2-- one second, before you get to 2. 3, indiana, i think is a slam dunk. north carolina, slam dunk. northern virginia worries me. >> that will be a bathground to the end. the democracies have a problem in vrmg virge in that the number of voters in fairfax county, the big driver of change in virginia is declining. there are 35,000 fewer active voters in fairfax county today than there were...

>> it could be very devastating to us. here is an interesting thing to think about. from 1961 to 2011, thats half a century, the amount of the economy, thats the corporate income tax fell by 2.8%. its now only 1.8%. social security security tax went up by the amount that the corporate incomes tax fell. its working people, its not companies, who made up for the corporate income tax. theyre goal is to get it to zero. >> it will never see the light of day in the senate. this is where the republican...

This, of course, in the ryan plan, the territorial tax hasnt gotten any attention what so ever. this is robbing the treasury. how damaging would this be? >> it could be very devastating to us. here is an interesting thing to think about. from 1961 to 2011, thats half a century, the amount of the economy, thats the corporate income tax fell by 2.8%. its now only 1.8%. social security security tax went up by the amount that the corporate incomes tax fell. its working people, its not companies, who...

To us. here is an interesting thing to think about. from 1961 to 2011, thats half a century, the amount of the economy, thats the corporate income tax fell by 2.8%. its now only 1.8%. social security security tax went up by the amount that the corporate incomes tax fell. its working people, its not companies, who made up for the corporate income tax. theyre goal is to get it to zero. >> it will never see the light of day in the senate. this is where the republicans want to go if they get power. ...

Loans. what he is not telling you is the difference between the 2.8% the government is borrowing money against itself to loan to students and 6.8% its going to require them to pay back is $9 billion which goes to obama care. it doesnt go to education. it goes to pay for the affordable care act. >> bill: so complicated. >> one of many instances where he is giving a raw deal to young people. >> bill: if you are a republic, by having all of those young people graduating from college and moving back...