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10.8% real unemployment and when you count the dropped out, one out of five. they don't realize hou world economy. there are lot of different challenges in the obama policies. remember he was at a 1.89 gallon gasoline the day he came into office. we have had the most expensive year for gasoline was 2011. if hoe it keeps going up this summer, this economy will crater again. he is in really difficult situation on the economy. >> sean: tuesday, alabama and mississippi you won the big prize on super tuesday which was your home state of georgia which you said was pivotal for you. what you see happe...

>> today's numbers are false. the 8.3 percent unemployment today if we had the same level of participation in the labor force we had the day obama was sworn in it would be 10.8 percent. the achievement is not creating jobs but driving people out the workforce. that is not progress but going backyards. and it makes him the bested for stamp president. >>dave: to go back to what the president said, back to the policies that got us in to the mess some say that the obama policies are not the things creating the jobs that we are seeing in the private sector but there is not a single policy to point ...

Is a conservative think tank takes the labor force in proportion to the total population. so newt gingrich is saying the total population compared to how many are working the number is more like 10.8 percent unemployment. >>dave: but you do not want to appear you are pleased with negative numbers and bummed out with positives so we will see how the numbers --. >>alisyn: they are saying in a more realistic light. >>clayton: but this say we are seeing a return to labor after being unemployed. so, you can lock at -- lock at it either way. >>dave: romney having a problem with connecting with the v...

And analyze further what you're seeing, so, mitt romney and newt gingrich had a lot to say about the jobs numbers and the economy on the campaign trail. >> how many months ago was it? 37 months ago told us if he could borrow 787 billion dollars, almost a trillion dollars, he would keep unemployment below 8%. it has not been below 8% since. this president has not succeeded. this president has failed and that's the reason we're going to get rid of him in 2012. >> let me note that today's numbers aren't totally false. the 8.3% unemployment today, if we had the same level of participation in the m...

>> gretchen: your news by the numbers now. first $950 million, that's how much kodak is borrowing to stay afloat while it goes through bankruptcy. it's going belly up after 132 years in business. next, 7 1/2 million dollars, that's how much david ruben stein is donating to repair cracks in the washington monument damaged in last summer's earthquake. thank you. finally, 10.8 years. that's the average length of time americans keep their cars now. it's about four years longer than just 15 years ago. steve? >> steve: thanks very much. nancy pelosi is feeling confidence about the democrat chances t...