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For three weeks in a row and its the first time thats happened since the dping of may. so the market is sitting up and paying attention and certainly the fiscal cliff is the driving factor. over the weekend on the talk shows the kind of things that we had heard. it sounded like people were maybe more amenable, the rift between the two parties wasnt quite as wide. as you laid out in your last segment, there is a big difference between raising revenue and raising tax rates and whether or not the r...

2008, it did not drop where obama got 53%. all of the drops came with married. no, unmarried women, you know, who were hard hit by the economy and were in a country where a majority of the households are unmarried. and unmarried women are kind of the vanguard of that and express in support of president obama who represent their values better, responded on the economy, and protected medicare. >> and why distinguish between unmarried and married? how do you campaign between these two groups differ...

Mandy is here with moving your money. how are we looking the first hour of trading? >> were looking pretty lackluster. were coming off the largest drops in a year just yesterday on a whole mix of things probably keeping the markets back. for one, the election is over. investors have to come to grips with a divided government that needs to get down to business to avoid the massive tax increases and spending cuts. youve got european worries returning to the fore, and also the big winning stocks of...

Face from the drops, thats the first time ive felt that today and the second thing the waterproof boots i bought at a popular national chain store claiming to be waterproof are sloshing wet and my socks are sloshing around in them. the good news here is that high tide happened at 7:32. the highest wave came to where im standing here on the top of this dune and did not go any further. if you walk another ten yards or so over the little fence here, then you get to the boardwalk. and this is high a...

Biggest drops in unemployment. when obama took office, michigan was a mess because of the auto industry. theyve had a huge drop of unemployment even though theyre a little bit higher now than michigan. and i was struck that governor kasich suggested that everybody was for the auto rescue. no, they werent. most republicans, with the exception, by the way, of president george w. bush who let it happen with actions he took, were against the auto rescue. so i dont understand -- well, i do understand...

What you do when youre governor of ohio. michigan has had one of the biggest drops in unemployment. when obama took office, michigan was a mess because of the auto industry. theyve had a huge drop of unemployment. even though they a little bit higher now than michigan. and i was struck that governor kasich suggested that everybody was for the auto rescue. no, they werent. most republicans, with the exception by the way of president george w. bush who let it happen with actions he took, were agai...

All-outcome pain blitz. right now, president obama on route to virginia after stumping in another crucial swing state, florida. meantime governor romney is in the all-important swing state of ohio where right now he is holding a rally in cincinnati. and we have our eye on the economy as well. a very big issue in the race with the dow this week posting one of the worst drops so far this year. now, stocks are reacting to the brand new jobless numbers. and they show a drop in the weekly unemploymen...

Up? peter brown, a pollster, is here. can he swing the ballots? >>guest: the president has 13 days, mitt romney has 13 days left. they concentrating on the same handful of states. the question you raise about the economy and how that affects it, not all economic news is created equal. home sales are up today but that is a business page story. layoffs tend to be a front page story. stock market drops are front page stories. four years ago, this month, we saw drops in over 400 points in the dow as...

Obamas actual status is in the state. other polls had it one-point lead for president obama. or three-point lead. somewhere in between those two. 11 combinations available to you to replace ohio. its easier to replace ohio. it suspect that the romney forces are going to try to continue to broaden this battlefield to their advantage. if you look at north carolina and florida, they are moving in governor romneys direction, moving away from president obama. that has to be troubling, particularly wh...

Federal taxes you are in the free and clear there starting in 2013 that exemption great drops to just $1 million. >> thats a big drop. >> thats a big change. and the top rate jumps on transfers above that jumps from 35 to 55%. so, you can get walloped. >> that top tax rate a big problem there. the medicare enrollment. lets jump down to medicare enrollment when you talk about the open enrollment october 15th through december. these drug plans are also going to be an issue. now is time to take a l...