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Its 19 million people, twice the population of iowa, new hampshire and south carolina. >> they have already spent $7 million in the ten media markets. its the first primary with large hispanic population. citizens who can still be turned off by tough talk on immigration. the latinos have the same issue as everybody else. economy, job, family, education is important. if way the candidate talks about immigration can get in the way of hearing the other things. >> the unemployment rate in florida is...

Its 19 million people, twice the population of iowa, new hampshire and south carolina. >> they have already spent $7 million in the ten media markets. its the first primary with large hispanic population. citizens who can still be turned off by tough talk on immigration. the latinos have the same issue as everybody else. economy, job, family, education is important. if way the candidate talks about immigration can get in the way of hearing the other things. >> the unemployment rate in florida is...

>>gerri: people dont think about this but the key is having people get jobs and if you look at the unemployment rate among 25 to 34 year olds, their unemployment rate went from 9.8 percent in october to 9.2 percent in november, and that is an improvement and maybe they dont day home with mom and dad. and we see improved numbers in the hardyist hit -- hardest hit housing markets. it would be fantastic to have an impact on housing. >>shepard: that would be great. enjoy the week. gerri is part of t...

Survey thats also taken that are actually beginning their own businesses. theyre creating hair own job and that also has a lag period. so i would say that we have a ways to go, but we did drop. last year the unemployment rate was at 9.8. can we do better? absolutely. thats why i think the presidents plan to come up with alternatives like stepgd the pay rom tax will all help put people back to work and also generate more activity at the local level so people will spend money. and thats whats the ...

>> another key poll out of florida. thats an important one, shannon. >> this poll is likely republican voters in florida comes from war room logistics which puts romney at the top with 28%, and herman cain in florida at nearly 24%, followed by newt gingrich at 9.8 and rick the striking thing here the same group took the same poll two days before the florida debate. since then cain is up 19 percentage points and perry has slipped nearly 16 in a very important state. shep? >> shepard: important in...

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I think that were making more progress than anyone could have thought. we were at 9.8%. the drop to 8.8% in three or four months is one of the largest drops weve ever seen. so we are hopeful, but we are going to worry less about making projections, and doing more about doing the right economic policy and keeping our focus on job growth and thats why things like the payroll tax cut that the president passed are very important and are helping this recovery right now. >> lets talk about the presenc...

For a robinhood tax as g-20 finance ministers gather in washington. but first, inflation, this is an issue thats had policymakers around the world worried for months now. chinas leaders are no exception. and the latest data on consumer prices wont be giving them much comfort. figures released today show that inflation hit 5.4% in china in the first quarter of this year. thats its highest level in almost three years. the rise comes despite aggressive action by the central bank to try to tame runa...

>> well, theres no question, we learned after we took office that we had a much deeper recession, everybody did, and thats made -- given us a tougher hole to dig out. but i think what weve seen is weve seen the president take the necessary emergency efforts to prevent us from going into a great depression. we have seen the economy start to recover now, we have seen strong job growth, private sector job growth at 200,000 a month. what you are seeing today is the president saying this part of that...

With a slowdown. everybody was freaking out. it was a double dip recession and all the things that were being thought about. here you see in sharp contrast, a nice revival in the pace of growth, and thats lifting jobs growth as well. very importantly, service sector, private sector service jobs. thats where we all work. 5 out of 8 americans work in nonfinancial services. thats the backbone of employment. >> so that 230,000, youre looking at it saying thats good news, really good news. >> absolut...