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About the growth of the economy and how anemic the recovery was, was covered incessantly by the mainstream media. the economy was the number-1 issue because that data was filtered through us. >> sean: i would give you one correction on that. i am not trying to be nitpicky or parse words, if the media did a better job of pointing out the labor participation rate, were that which obama inherited, the real rate is 10.7%. they never gave the context, to my satisfaction. but you make some points. but i think benghazi, fast & furious and not answering. very direct questions about the debt and defici...

He took office. it's 7.8% now. if you calculated that unemployment rate, taking back the people who dropped out of the workforce, it would be 10.7%. we have not made the progress we need to make to put people back to work. that's why i put out a five-point plan that gets america 12 million new jobs in four years and rising take-home pay. it's going to help jeremy get a job when he comes out of school. it's going to help people across the country that are unemployed right now. and one thing that the president said, which i want to make sure that we understand. he said that i said we should take...

He took office. it's 7.8% now. if you calculated that unemployment rate, taking back the people who dropped out of the workforce, it would be 10.7%. we have not made the progress we need to make to put people back to work. that's why i put out a five-point plan that gets america 12 million new jobs in four years and rising take-home pay. it's going to help jeremy get a job when he comes out of school. it's going to help people across the country that are unemployed right now. and one thing that the president said, which i want to make sure that we understand. he said that i said we should take...

Participation the number of people that have dropped out of the work force and add them back to the work participation, it would be 10.7, almost 11%. >> gregg: g.d.p. growth rate is going in the wrong direction. you attended the debate on thursday. as the images of that night continue to sink in the days and weeks ahead, do you think voters will remember less the substance and more the antics of joe biden interrupting 82 times and smirking through discussions what is quite frankly very serious and somber matters? >> frankly, i live in the south. we really don't like that kind of i am polite be...

As mitt romney's team tries to ride the wave of momentum, hoping as a way to turn the page and maybe get a political bounce of their own. let's bring back our panel, perry bacon jr. and tara mcguinness. you wrote about the jobs numbers. let's take a look at that. consider that if labor force participation had held even since january even it was 8.3%, the jobless rate would be 8.4 if the job participation rate were the same as when president barack obama took office, the rate would be 10.7%. obama can spin the numbers any way he likes, but this is not an economic recovery in a meaningful sense....