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Liberal conservative calling these weak job numbers showing a slowing economy. and not one thats beginning to kick into gear. >> and perhaps a bellwether of that. forget the headlines, look at wall street yesterday plummeting do you -- dow yesterday. wall street plunged 100 points in a few short hours. you look at these numbers and dive in how these break down socioeconomically, 8% 41 consecutive months is that unemployment rate since 2000. the real number that everyone is looking at though is t...

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Are us. you know something, mr. president, at least on this last point, i think theyre right. we are you and you are us. we are together. >> reporter: today the white house announced a presidential news conference tomorrow afternoon that had the dual value of allowing the president to not take questions today in the oval office with the prime minister and allow them to try to step on super tuesday tomorrow. bret? >> bret: ed henry, live in the north lawn. thank you. now to the reason were here i...

American people and turn it into his own o personal problem. [laughter] megyn: effective? >> yes. and also, you know, you mentioned steven chu, you mentioned eds question. steven chus going to be a bellwether for where obama is on requests -- gas prices. if he is still the energy secretary he of even more expensive gasoline fame, if steven chus still the energy secretary on election day, theyre probably feeling pretty confident about it. but i would not be picking out any new draperies or decora...

Its the bellwether. were digging deeper with rick green. vice president and editor of the des moines register. good to have you with us this morning. i want to get to it. mitt romney and ron paul are neck and neck. when you look at the four days of polling first, is ron mott mentioned to us, the final two days of polling. santorum moves past paul with 21%. how did that happen? is it just that his ground game is so good in. >> good morning, thomas. good to be with you. we saw the final numbers ye...

Mccain went on to be the nominee. >> funny editorial says as goes iowa, so goes iowa because thats it. you cant necessarily see it as a bellwether or take it as what it ultimately is. its interesting, were all sort of fascinated and hanging on whats going to happen at the caucuses but doesnt necessarily mean anything beyond iowa. having said that, mike huckabee was on our show and he says what it is it imbues your campaign with lots of money. >> perhaps the three left standing. thats why you hav...

Right move for them to make. they could actually pull it out, which is something no one expected which gives them a bigger than life image going into new hampshire. if he pulls that out it will look like a wrap. >> lets listen to what -- was it mike huckabee was talking about this the other night. he made a prediction. the guy of course who won iowa four years ago. heres what he said. >> i would probably say that mitt romney will end up winning it today. ron paul because of his organization coul...

Listening to you anymore? >> by the way, answer your question -- >> and here is the bellwether for this. when the presidents approval rating gets below 40%, the press, like the public, starts to have -- starts to reflect -- the press follows the opinion polls. not consciously, but unconsciously, it does. and theres skepticism now in the country is very high, and very high in the press corps too. >> for a person rooting for president obama, today is a good day. hes out there meeting the press. he...

Against obama. >> chris, do you have a guy in your family or close circle of friends that usually you can tell is your bellwether? i have a brother named charlie who does a lot of work in business, hes a business guy, salesman of high-tech stuff. and hes only voted wrong once, he voted for dukakis. if you ask him how hes going to vote -- do you have the anybody like that, howard? >> i do. i have an aunt like that. >> whos a bellwether. have you checked in with her lately? >> i havent lately. >> ...