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Books on unemployment numbers. fox news web site headline was is it real? right wing talk laura said a total pro-obama propaganda. labor forced participation rate at a 30-year low. secretary, lets make some news tonight before you leave. >> you know what, i have no idea what those folks are talking about. ive said it before and ill say it again. those accusations are ludicrous. the people are very competent, scientific people. theyve been working on this for years. we vnt changed any methodology...

They were pro obama. >> numbers show they were. [ laughter ] >> the spread between positive and negative was 23-11, that is two to one shasmt big difference. >> i think if you ask people, people say overwhelming they believe that. >> people think that. pew center has its own methodology. >> hundred electoral votes is not a close election. i am amazed to see the bias was that small. >> we were talking earlier about an incident, a gaffe, i thought it was unfair to romney. you didnt build it gaffe ...

They were pro obama. >> numbers show they were. [ laughter ] >> the spread between positive and negative was 23-11, that is two to one shasmt big difference. >> i think if you ask people, people say overwhelming they believe that. >> people think that. pew center has its own methodology. >> hundred electoral votes is not a close election. i am amazed to see the bias was that small. >> we were talking earlier about an incident, a gaffe, i thought it was unfair to romney. you didnt build it gaffe ...

State vote, if you did that then romney would have won 37 of the 61 electoral votes. it would have taken the national margin what we have now to 294-43. >> wow. >> basically at that point, florida which was less than a point could win it for romney in that scenario, even with him losing the national popular vote by four points. and then i asked dave wasserman, with the cook political report. i said if you did that in every state around the country, if that was the methodology, how would this yea...

Romney would have won 37 of the 61 electoral votes. it would have taken the national margin what we have now to 294-43. >> wow. >> basically at that point, florida which was less than a point could win it for romney in that scenario, even with him losing the national popular vote by four points. and then i asked dave wasserman, with the cook political report. i said if you did that in every state around the country, if that was the methodology, how would this year have gone? he said 276-62 romne...

Nbc universal chairman testifying before the house oversight committee yesterday. he challenged congress to coordinate federal activity and face the increasing prevalence of autism in the united states according to the cdc. the develop mental disorder affects one in 88 american children. there are some numbers more alarming. thanks so much for drawing attention to this and everything you and susan have done. one thing that you said yesterday is that this is now an epidemic. tell me what your con...

>> thank you for having me. >> start with a little nerd iness here. explain to me the methodology and why its valid for understanding the economic consequences of being denied reproductive rights privileges. >> sure. theres a small but very poor literature on what happens to women when they have abortions. often these studies are done with attempt to show that abortion hurts women. that narrative that abortion hurts women has -- is present in our policy debates on billboards and had our courts a...

Ohio to talk with lisa hamler fugate, executive director the choi association of food banks. >> thank you for having me. >> weve been following this story all week and were happy to see the news its going to be closer to 23 rather than $50 a month. explain to me how that change occurred. >> obviously, the ohio department of job and family services that administers the program along with advocates for the poor and hungry in the state working with united states department of can agriculture were a...

Pretty good year, wasnt it? >> it was, it was a good year. you know, its not like were curing cancer or anything. we need to put it in perspective, but this is what we do, so were delighted to have done a decent job of it. were particularly pleased with our senate and house ratings which were, i think, the most accurate in the business. jon: yeah. out of, what, 33 senate races, you got 31 of them right? >> we got 31 right, and we got, we came very close in the house. we projected a democratic ga...

States is his stand among independent voters. these are voters not totally affiliated to one party or another. who reviewed both men. who honestly is better for the next four years, mitt romney even in democratic polls is showing an advantage among independents by 16 points. some polls by 22. martha: tony, let me jump in. how do you explain that? how do you explain the advantage with independents, when you look at head-to-head, many cases president obama has a one percentage, one point gain, lea...