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Look the at the activity the past 24 hours. 1.4 million election related tweets, more than 1500 tweets per minute. what are people talking about? that's what we're going to show you now. one of the top tweets, energy and environment, but remember that's listed very much by conversations about lines after superstorm sandy and the economy second. big jobs report key issue of the election and part of the conversation online regarding benghazi terror attack and then rounding out the top five, education and terrorism. remember, traffic will spike dramatically as we get closer to the election. elect...

Comes in, because that particular report has been reconfigured. it is under new management. they're using a different calculation method. so that number is not suspect but just brand new and different. so what we're left with, martha, is a weak economy that's not producing that many new jobs and an awful lot of layoffs. martha: why is there a new way of calculating this? there has been so much talk in the recent months whether or not these numbers have been massaged a bit ahead of the election. a lot of folks who think there may be something to that, stuart. do you? >> i'm referring to the adp...

Look at this. good mornings, stuart. what lies ahead? >> that is a difficult question to answer. looking at the numbers we received today from a couple of reports you can probably say tomorrow 8:30 eastern time there were roughly, 120,000 new jobs created last month. that is a very rough estimate looking at today's numbers. now let me go into today's numbers, they are politically loaded because they present a snapshot of the economy right before the election. they're going to be intensely scrutinized because we've had a couple of very generous and pretty surprisingly positive reports last mont...

363,000. analysts say that number indicates companies are hiring, which is great news. we should know more tomorrow when the government releases its final monthly jobs report, the last one before we decide. gerri willis of the fox business network is with us. gerri, ahead of that report, there was another one today that shows companies are adding to their payrolls. >> adding to private sector. 158,000 in the last month. critical number. biggest gain since february but offsetting that and there is an offset. >> shepard: kill joy. >> i know i'm a bad person. layoffs jump by more than 40%. challe...

>> yeah, i think you're right, tamron. what president obama has done in the past week with sandy can only help him. you have 78% of the american public thinks he's done a good job. that's republicans and democrats. think he's done a good job in handling the sandy situation. and the hurricane relief efforts. and then you look at the early voting, as was just mentioned a moment ago, the president has a 35-point advantage in early voting in iowa. a 30-point advantage in ohio. i'm down in florida right now in tampa. he has an early voting advantage here in florida as well, a state that's still nec...