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General motors and chrysler rescued under this president. we've seen that trend and also seen the trend where people are understanding, less regulation, lower taxes and an entrepreneurial environment and atmosphere in this country still works. and that's why the right to work states have lower unemployment rates. they are gaining more jobs, and they are more prosperous than the antiquated labor union-based states. >> megyn: last question, the age group that has the highest union membership is 55-64. the lowest, 16-24, just 4.2% of that age group are in the union compared to 14.9 for the older ...

What they found over time period between 1998 and 2010 initially we saw about a 13% obesity rate. that peaked in 2003 at 15.2% but in 2010 when the study was concluded, we have turned the corner and are at 14.9%, so it's an exciting turn around. >> trace: it is but i hate to bring the mood in the room down but it seems like a drop in the bucket because the problem is just so bad across the country. >> i do agree with you. it's a modest decrease. when you do look at obesity numbers over the past 30 years, in 2008, children between 6 and 11, one-third were overweight or obese. i think the import...

Of the 538 blog. as of this morning, silver methodology gives president obama an 85.1% chance of receiving the majority of the electoral college votes on tuesday. and winning another term in office. mitt romney has just a 14.9% chance according to silver. those numbers are generating a lot of controversy and part of the issue is trying to understand what silver means when he talks about probability. so cornell x you said we got it talk to the people. i'm thinking yeah, but he seems to do well predicting based on the way that he manages the poll numbers. >> the thing about polling. if you look ...

:lou: that's exactly what you don't want to do. these numbers over the course of time, you should always be skeptical of those numbers. we should always be skeptical of anything government does. economic reporting is an inexact art and not always in science be one can i just ask your question? :lou: yes. megyn: unemployment is still very high. how are the american people doing? :lou: a sophisticated number, if you will, buried within the labor of statistics is the broadest measure of unemployment that is in the workforce, discouraged workers. that remains where it was last month, 14.9%.

To put -- >> i agree. >> he's also willing to raise taxes. go back to the old rates and let the bush tax cuts expire, which would bring more money into the treasury. but no one talks about how much money that would actually be. do you know? >> yes, i know. it would be for the top rates, it's over a trillion dollars. >> so it would help. >> it would help a lot but we need to let them expire for everybody. that's $2.5 trillion. there's a trillion dollars worth of loopholes easy. cut the rates, give everybody a big tax rate and they ought to be paying their fair share. $200 billion is due to capi...