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Jimmy carter. the president's victory in 2008 was by the slimmest of margins. president bush's margin of victory in 2004 was by more than 434,000 about 30 times larger than obama. north carolina is considered a swing state in 2012 as it was in 2008. the political landscape seems more daunting for democrats this time around. joining me now is the man whose column inspired. let's first talk about statistically why north carolina is a swing state. it is getting younger. it is getting less white. it is more of a huge boom in hispanics have gone into the state. it really is unlike the rest of the s...

Stocks are set for a lower open. new jobless claims dropped by 44,000 coming in at 434,000. that is a sign layoffs are slowing. in the meantime, retail sales edged higher. there is still lingering nervousness in the market after yesterday's selloff. commodities like oil and copper and silver and gold are continuing to drop. oil prices have plunged nearly $18 since the start of last week. >> a 91-year-old ohio man is found guilty of nazi death camp killings during world war ii. the shocking thing about this is the sentence. >> he was sentenced to five years in prison. the prosecutor said for si...

Details from usama bin laden's journal, bin laden obsessed with hitting the u.s. again, pressing al-qaeda to attack smaller american cities. his written goal reportedly to kill as many americans as possible in a single attack on the scale of 9/11. now, he might have been in hiding all these years but he was still deeply involved with al-qaeda. that's what we're hearing from washington. more on this in a matter of moments inside "america's newsroom". first, though, there is breaking news on the number one issue facing the u.s. today, that is jobs, the number of americans filing for first time...

Listen, 434,000, the number today, but ring the associated press, they say the number has to be around 375,000 in order to get consistent job gains? but i mean, the way we've been talking the past two or three years, we had to go well below that number, right? >> yes. bill: what is the magic number stuart? >> the magic number bounces around all over the place. quite frankly, bill, if you want a robust economy where you bring down the unemployment rate rapidly, and i mean bring it down, from 9 percent, all the way down to say 6 1/2%, you've got to have under, way under, 300,000 jobless benefit ...

It's still a fat number, 434,000. closer inspection shows a disturbing trend. this is the four-week rolling average of jobless claims and it rose to 4. ,000. to -- rose to 437,000. that's a tough number. let's bring in our power panel. matt mccollough. until you get that number under 300,000. we are not experiencing any job growth in this country. >> that's right. we are cutting back a lot in the public sector. we are having state workers cutting back. >> that disturbing because a big reason we went from 600,000 jobs we were losing, it's getting better. but the government was propping up those...