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Them. >> no. have you an election coming up in a few months. the question is -- are you better off now than you were four years ago? that's the barometer every incumbent president faces. we are looking at a trillion dollars of stimulus, we are 63.7 labor participation rate, the loyest since around 1980. and you look at what the cbo says, if those people were included in that labor force, we are looking at 10% plus en-- unemployment. america is hurting. there is a reason they elected this congressman. they don't want to talk about the economy. >> no matter how hard they try, they can't distract...

>> that's right. president obama's plan so far has been inactivity and the congress has gone along with him, unfortunately, on that. when you look at the labor participation rate, which is even a better measure of what's going on in the nation than unemployment, unemployment is ticked up to 8.3%. labor participation rate is so low, 63.7%, it means people are underemployed, unemployed. they've given up hope. and it's not going to improve because the hirers are on the side lines 'til after this election. regulations, the fear on higher taxes after the election is all holding back employers from ...

2024 and social security nine years later in 2330. we'll see a degradation of benefits from 25 to 30%. one of the most important things to do is to strengthen social security. i believe in protecting and preserving it. that's when i look at such political gimmicks such as this payroll tax cut, it's really defunding of social security and it's pushing closer to the cliff. so i think that we've got to get americans back to work. when you look at our work force participation rate, it's at a 31-year lower at only 63.7 percen%.we're driving people toe comment on government, not driving people to op...

2024 and social security nine years later in 2330. we'll see a degradation of benefits from 25 to 30%. one of the most important things to do is to strengthen social security. i believe in protecting and preserving it. that's when i look at such political gimmicks such as this payroll tax cut, it's really defunding of social security and it's pushing closer to the cliff. so i think that we've got to get americans back to work. when you look at our work force participation rate, it's at a 31-year lower at only 63.7 percen%.we're driving people toe comment on government, not driving people to op...

2008 presidential election, the exit polls show 74% of them were white and 71.3% eligible voters today are white. even though 63.7% of white are nonhispanic whites, which is a reminder, that the white vote is still a powerful electorate blo bloc that cannot be ignored. a last time a presidential candidate won the white vote? one clue, the same year that the 24th amendment abolished the jim crow practice of the poll tax. yes, the last time a democrat won the white vote was in 1964, wh lyndon johnson routed goldwater. jimmy carter came close, with 47%. no other democrat became within striking di...