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>> shannon: with september's unemployment rate falling to 7.8% things on the surface appear to be looking up. what does the number actually mean for you? molly henneberg digs a little deeper. >> reporter: three of president obama's most loyal voting blocs in the 2008 election are struckling in the current economy. remember, september's national unemployment rate is 7.8%. breaking that down by demographics, african americans 13.4% unemployed, up from 11.3% this time four years ago. hispanics, 9.9% unemployed, up from 8% in september of 2008. and young people ages 18 to 29 a september unemployme...

Far more bleak for some particular groups. molly henneberg, takes a look at this part of the story from washington. >> three of president obama's most loyal voting blocks in the 2008 election are struggling in the current economy. remember, september's national unemployment rate is 7.8%, and breaking that down by demographics, african-americans, 13.4% unemployed. that's up from 11.3% this time four years ago. hispanics, 9.9% unemployed. up from 8% in september 2008. and young people, ages 18 to 29, a september unemployment rate of 11.8%. and up from 9.8% in 2008. one analyst says young people ...

It's also falling into another one of their talking olympians, that hispanic unemployment is above 10%. now it's below, 9.8%. >> this was not good 7.8 but all of the subcategories were falling. >> in contrast to what mitt romney was saying on the clip, where people have left the job market, that is so not true. there are 418,000 people who have entered the job market. you can't say the numbers are falling because people are quitting. >> the question is what is romney going to say for the next month of the election? i mean, his entire message has been obama isn't working. that is the tag line o...

Us, the overall unemployment rate for september is 7.8%. if you look at numbers by demographics, for african-americans the september unemployment rate is 13.4%. even higher for african-american men, 14.2%. it is 10.9% for women. for hispanics the overall unemployment rate in september is 9.9%. a bit better for men, 7.6%, but worse for hispanic women, 9.8%. even though african-americans and his pan anybodies are doing worse in the economy than population at large, one labor analyst says these numbers are not a matter of race. >> the real thing to look at is, how are you doing according to your ...

Wisconsin you put at a 9.8% chance of providing the decisive vote. that is interesting to me given everything that's gone on in wisconsin. talking in the break about the scott walker factor, labor discussion. people that voted to keep scott walker in office that are supporters of the president. the other complicating factor paul ryan is from wisconsin. >> right. if you look at the detail of the polls there, then paul ryan will give romney a boost maybe in his district in downstate wisconsin but maybe not statewide so much where paul ryan is not a statewide office holder. he is from the house. ...