think that president bush bears a certain responsibility for where we were. what is -- it's been about 19 months now. i think people are saying, look, mr. president, you had the opportunity to do something about it, your policies have all passed. republicans haven't been able to stop anything that the democrats have tried to do on the economy, so let's see the results and don't blame bush, let's take responsibility for your policies. jon: there would be less upset, i suppose, among those polled if these policies seemed to be working. >> reporter: well, we have as wendell was saying with today's reports, still mead objectinger results. we -- mead observing ker results. we are not in a recession but we are not booming. we haven't had this level of unemployment in an election year since 1982. the democrats look at that and say we can't really run on this record. we better say things would have been even worse if the another's guys were in charge. jon: i was looking at statistics from the good old days, you remember 2007, don't you?