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Early. we talked about the national number. the state by state numbers are different, the unemployment rate in the state of ohio is at 7 percent and people feel better about the economy there. >> we interrupt fox news sunday to bring you this election special presentation about mitt romney, a live speech in pennsylvania. he is in bucks county, northeast of philadelphia. as we listen in, governor romney is trying to get this state to go red. >> i want to introduce the next first lady of the unite...

Conversation over the last year talking about redefining rape and legitimate rape and all these kind of things, has really been an insult to women. >> and largely on the right. >> also this question about birth control which many women thought wait a second, we resolved that. i have to tell you, i was in kansas and missouri last week and even conservative women were disgusted with the binders comment. i actually am not sure i think these national numbers are reflecting whats really going on with...

Individual state numbers. we have no historical basis for comparison for a bunch of battlegrounds. we can look at national horse race numbers, aat this point they were here and today theyre here. this gives us a way to compare the races. you cant do that with 12 random battleground states thrown together. you dont know when that number means am its a random statistic that gets cited. spend the resources on polls that are actually useful. >> everybody listen to steve and do away with the polls. w...

That shows romney doing well over a long early time period that includes the days after the debate went well. its consistent with state numbers that show bahama doing pretty well in the last two days but much worse on friday and saturday. its also consistent with rasmussen which shows obama going back to predebate levels. so i think that the way you can synthesize all this is romney had a great couple of days after the debates, but now its a little better for obama. >> you mentioned the state po...

Floridas kind of an upsidedown state. the farther north you go, the deeper in the south you are. so the republican candidate does well in the north of florida and the democratic candidate generally does well in the south. and its the middle, what we know as the i-4 corridor, where things are really fought out. >> i used to live there. i know it well. well, anne, septembers job report came out on friday, and nationally, unemployment was down to 7.8% in september. state numbers come out in a coupl...

Disingenuous. if we dont reform it, david, heres the bottom line, and martin and i agree, if we dont reform this medicare system, martin and i when we get to 65, its not going to be solvent and our families wont be taken care of. thats the biggest difference. we have rhetoric of obama and we have serious, hard talks and real solutions from the romney/ryan ticket. were in trouble in the country. weve got to make changes. >> governor omalley i want to end on this point just to shift it a little bi...

Martin and i agree, if we dont reform this medicare system, martin and i when we get to 65, its not going to be solvent and our families wont be taken care of. thats the biggest difference. we have rhetoric of obama and we have serious, hard talks and real solutions from the romney/ryan ticket. were in trouble in the country. weve got to make changes. >> governor omalley i want to end on this point just to shift it a little bit and talk about the broader economy. the reality for voters is they g...

>> from now on, were going to look for a brighter fuehrer. were going to look for a united community, a prosperous community, and the negativity over the last two years will go away in no time. in afghanistan today, three american service members were killed by a gunman wearing an afghan military uniform. it happened here in the unstable helmand province. we heard a few details and about a couple of attacks on coalition forces this week alone. chris lawrence is at the pentagon. chris...

The economy? there are so many measures. gdp, household income, inflation. but the one that gets the most attention, the most publicity, is the jobs number. well, there are two jobs numbers. theres the national jobs number that we hear so much about. but there are also 51 individual job numbers for the 50 states, plus the district of columbia. i think people are as influenced by their local numbers, their state numbers, as they are by the national number. so you look at that map that you just pu...

When you look at these state numbers in these key states of florida, virginia, and ohio, what do they tell you about the shape of the race for the electoral college? >> number one, when an incumbent is running, you look at their number first. it matters more than the challenger number. >> do you need to be 50? >> no, but he is at a reelectable number right now at 48, but just barely. and thats where obama is. he has 48% job approval rating overall, nationally 47 in the match up nationally, and h...