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Are very controlling with reporters. um, and yet they, you know, generally still continue to give him favorable coverage. jon: well, and the president is already out there on the campaign trail, judy, crowing about these job numbers. if the labor force participation rate, the same percentage of folks were working today or were in the labor force today as were there on the day he took office, the unemployment rate would be 10.7%. but the president is crowing about this 7.8% number that's out there, and i imagine he's going to get that echoed in the morning papers tomorrow. >> well, of course he...

The battleground map. what better indicator of which way this election will go, political polls or the unemployment rate. well, today we're taking a deep dive into the jobs picture. but we're going to do so state by state. and that's what's fascinating. let's start with nbc's battleground map as it stands right now. 231 electoral votes. seven states with 110 electoral votes sitting in toss-up. but in three states, the jobs picture is a mixed bag. take florida, for instance. a state that went for obama last night. the unemployment rate now sits at 9%. that's above the national average. it's als...

but house speaker john boehner still slammed the president this morning. he says, quote, today's report shows that families and small businesses are still struggling to get by because of president obama's failed economic policies. could it have been better? we'll break down the numbers for you in just a few minutes. and president obama has a message for women. i'm thinking about you. the president spoke just a short time ago, kicking off the white house forum on women and the economy. >> i do think that the conversation's been oversimplified. women are not some monolithic bloc. wom...

month in february we added 233,000 private sector jobs. more companies are bringing jobs back and investing in america. and manufacturing is adding jobs for the first time since the 1990s. we just had another good month last month in terms of adding manufacturing jobs. and this facility is part of the evidence of what's going on all across the country. this company is about to hire more than 200 new workers, 140 of them right here in petersburg, virginia. so the economy is getting stronger. and when i come to places like this and i see the work that's being done, it gives me confiden...

inside the cnn grill at south by southwest. the grill opens officially today this morning. one thing i noticed on the menu which includes all kinds of things, there are no prices. that's because we got -- usually that means i cannot afford to eat here. but that is what's happened here is we have taken over a restaurantnd put the cnn grill and invited people here as we celebrate south by southwest which is a big music and film festival. douglas brinkley, we've known each other now through a lot of presidential races. >> a long time. >> no, i don't tell anybody how long we've known eac...