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Labor day. jon: the overall unemployment range unchanged at 8.2% but up employment rate among women ticked up last month from 7.9 to 8%. women are a critical factor obviously in this electorate and they are going at, well according to the polls, they are favoring barack obama right now. are they going to be feeling those numbers and could that change? >> well, that is, romney campaign is certainly going to be touting. theyre also noting that the african-unemployment rate and hispanic unemploymen...

To the osmonds, yeah. >> reporter: what song do you remember? >> "sweet and innocent," i think was the -- i remember the words a little bit. i am not going to sing them for you. >> reporter: david muir, abc news, new york. >> likeable guy here. sort of like four years ago when john mccain picked sarah palin, that was an attempt to woo women voters. with the huge hispanic gap, whether romney will play the game and pick rubio here. a huge gap. the idea what will people vote for more, some one that...

State has changed so much, so many latino voters and the economy is doing very well in virginia. they are very optimistic about virginia. and they think ohio will be super close. but a good economy in ohio, the auto bailout benefits them, and its the only state in the country where unions really matter on a national level. >> lets say that the white house and romney is right, and romney wins florida. portman selected in ohio. and those polls are wrong. portman makes a difference and they win ohi...

Conversation and its hurting. >> well, what concerned me, and i dont know what i would do if i was a republican strategist, is the 20-point gender gap. i dont -- and you basically -- the dnc came out with an ad as far as romney, no planned parenthood. i dont know how you overcome a 20-point gender gap with women? i dont know where you go with that. >> well, we keep saying over and over again. theres the gender gap, theres the hispanic gap, which is actually much -- not much more important, but m...

Second. >> listen, if barack obamas reelected, and if we have the gap we have right now and the hispanic gap we have right now, barack obamas going to get reelected. i suspect republicans are going to do very well in the house and senate races, thats my gut. if that happens, you have a republican congress that understands this president is not going anywhere, its not going to be like 2009 and i think its much more possible that they do a deal in the second term than the first. peter, when you gu...