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32 consecutive months of job growth. are we where we want to be? no. we've got more work to do because the hole that we're digging out of, the economic devastation that greeted this president when he walked into the oval office was deep and widespread. we've got a lot of work -- >> gretchen: except the numbers don't completely add up with that, robert, because when you look at the cost of gas, for example, when the president walked into office, it was 1.85. now it's 3.80 on average. the u.s. poverty rate was 12.5%. now it's 15.1%. the number of juan failures were 25 in 2008 and now it's 92. >>...

To determine whether or not they feel that the economy is getting better. they look at their own pocketbooks and whether or not they're getting a job, whether or not they're still living paycheck to paycheck. the bottom line here is that we need candidates that are putting forth proposals and policies that will improve the lives of ordinary americans. i just don't think that mitt romney has put forth anything that's going to do that. >> steve: you go back to when george w. bush was president of the united states and when gas was, what, 3 bucks a gallon, something like that? it was gigantic let...

>> hooch is only one of a myriad of offenses the correctional officers must stay on top of. >> there, check it out. >> such as nick knox's attempt to use wire and an outlet to make a lighter. >> it's all good. [ bleep ]. no, that ain't how it's supposed to work. oh, i'm in trouble. >> when we met him, knox was awaiting trial for murder while serving time for a variety of lesser charges. including robbing an amish man of $1.85. >> kind of embarrassing. we had fake guns actually. drove right in front of him so they couldn't go forward. when we got out of the car, made him get off the buggy, and ...

The language of barack obama at this convention will be what it was four years ago. that happened at the republican national convention, word for word, barack obama saying the same thing, the same hope, the same change as he did in 2008 and the american people say, you know what? he's a politician. he's a good politician. he's an effective politician, but he's a politician and the words don't mean anything, sean. >> sean: unemployment is up 7.8, with what he inherited, 8.3%, gas was $1.85 a gallon, it's now $3.78. the average length of unemployment has nearly doubled, home prices down 35%, net...

Anybody a plausible alternative. >> you keep talking about romney. i'd like to talk about the obama record and i want to put some statistics up on the screen. unemployment was 7.8% when the president took office. it's now 8.3%. median household income was almost $55,000. it's now less than 51,000. gas was 1.85 a gallon when he took office. now it's 3.78. almost double. the national debt was $10.6 trillion and it may go past $16 trillion this week. so just looking at the president's record and those statistics, david, is the average american better off than four years ago? >> chris, as i said t...