biggest nightmare for is from the front page of romney s newspaper saying rick perry is romney s worst nightmare and perry says he has a better creation of 40 percent of the nation s new jobs in texas the last year. shepard: all right, any response from candidate romney? well, like most of them, he is focusing on primarily on president obama campaigning in new hampshire today. as we saw he was going after president obama very aggressively. leader is another example. the president this week is in three states on a bus tour. campaigning. and then he will go on a vacation to martha s vineyard. a lot of democrats in martha s vineyard. i don t know why. but, i wish the president were in washington calling back
that will be critical. and the euro bond, and how does greece pay down? what happens to italy? what happens to spain? all eyes will be on that meeting and it will be hard to satisfy all the questions. you could see another down day on news from the meeting. shepard: thank you, gerri willis, from the fox business network with the willis report. fox news is america s election headquarters and big changes in the field of g.o.p. presidential hopefuls. as the president s approval rating sinks to an all-time low. former minnesota governor pawlenty bowed out finish. and the minnesota congresswoman michele bachmann won and texas governor perry officially joined. not a shocker but some could be surprised how organized he is. and president obama today kicked off his own he day tour across
at 54 percent. these are the worse numbers of the presidency. and now, the news from the north lawn today. hello, care line? reporter: it is the jobs. the president is now on a bus making his way from minnesota to iowa and then to illinois part of a fight against republicans who have been railing against him on the trail each day. romney, in fact, has called this the magical misery tour, and the president knows while he is there he will get an earful, the entire point of the trip, to find out what rural americans think of the economy. we did not expect him to lay out specific plans on this tour. we were told he would lay out a plan each week but that will come later. the trip sounds like a campaign stop. he is headed to the important states. but the taxpayers are paying are for it and the white house says it is not campaigning but talking to americans is an important part of the job. there is nothing wrong with
if not win it, how do you find a spot for him? john: that assume he does not do well in new hampshire where he has a home, and there is . shepard: he could win there? john: he has to show he is a political leader capable of dispolicing obama. and he will have to do that at some point but he is counting on a certain amount of division of the vote. shepard: and that is a possibility. john: and it is happening. you have some of the same position in a perry and bachmann if you listen to them closely, there is kind of a similar appeal to that part of republican base that is going to be looking for a strong ideological candidate. shepard: we shall watch for it. thank you. assistant managing editor of the wall street journal here
the mix and you look at the name-calling, and they are politicking, after all, will that make it hard to get governing going? john: the answer is yes, king and wiseman are reporters in iowa and did a great story on this. you could look at this and say, well, if the last few weeks were fractured expect that to continue as people articulate their views in the field and that affects what is going on in congress. the numbers you just described for obama, the feelings of congress are similarly low. shepard: similarly? they have been lower. john: everyone is unhappy with washington. but the voter is saying, but we really want you to stick to your guns. that has been articulated. shepard: it does not sound like the left is going to get any traction or at least not now with the argument that when the who is hurting you have to spend money and if you don t when the