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Towards president obama and mitt romney going into the debate, those are the gains they have consolidated. president 52% likability, 42% negative. and mitt romney was underwater in that respect. so that is a key number for them. that is their watch number. i think that strategic point. i think the president performed poorly in a number of moments. one of the strategic choices i fund frustrating but its the same strategic choice ive found frustrating from day one was the strategic point as to hig...

The american society. its almost uniformly bad. i mean literally down to things like s.a.t. scores. theyre down. food stamps. >> thats obamas fault? >> 14 million people on food stamps. you know the number of mens uninsured by health insurance is up two full percentage points. who would have expected? for 104 consecutive months american said we think country is on the real track. that is bad. key number. its dramatically wrong direction for obama. >> bret: so that point, jeff, this entire conven...

To take part-time work or simply given up looking. the labor department says is 14.9%. the former commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics say another key number shows the labor market is stagnant. >> the employment to population ratio, just what share the population is working, and that number now is at 58.6%. roughly the same it was three years ago. >> reporter: the president took a not so subtle swipe at romneys jet ski vacation, waxing nostalgic about vacation when he was 11. >> we wen...

House of representatives. they are voting on the final fixes to the health insurance reform law. the final vote on the reconciliation bill. house democrats need 216 votes to pass these technical fixes. as you see, its 202 right now. democrats push through the fixes through the process called reconciliation in the senate needing simple majority. there were essentially two technical fixes to the student loan portion of the bill. thats what the house is voting on right now. chief political correspo...

Bill. it is the trend that is very worrying here. we had an improving trend in the unemployment picture for much of the latter half of last year. that improving trend stalled in january, and has now been reversed. its getting worse. as you pointed out, were now back to almost a half million new unemployment filing claims every week. that is a very big number. its a key number. the trend has been reversed. just for a second, put this into context. we just heard weve got a major drop in new home s...