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Economy. kimberly, you pointed out a month ago 500,000 fewer women in workforce today than when obama took over. fewer women are working, gasoline prices 100% higher than when he took over. that hurts any mom driving a kid around. school costs, think about this. single mom who wants to send a child to college up 30% in the last three years alone. school costs are out-pacing inflation. >> dana: plus they might have their own student loans. >> eric: war on women they can't keep a household payment and can't keep the checkbook intact because of what is going on. >> dana: let me ask bob from abc p...

President in 2008 asked for time out to deal with it. a calamity outmatched only by the great crash in '29. so ask it yourself, is this country better off in the direction "w" was taking us, really? we'll get to that in a minute. first, we have new poll numbers in the presidential race. let's check the "hardball" scoreboard. here it is according to the new "washington post"/abc poll, president obama with a one-point lead over mitt romney among likely voters. among all registered voters, the president's lead is six points. joining me is governor ed rendell who was leading pennsylvania through t...

Right. gallup is one of them. trust the numbers. you just face it, you just hate the poll. >> eric: over the weekend we saw paul ryan ask questions. there are so many things going on, economy, medicare, job situation. he was asked about his time in marathon. what is -- >> dana: you remember last week greg i think you did a monologue about reporters complaining about state of the campaign and how they wish to talk about something more substantive? i guess, they were trying to get out at question of character when it came to presidenpaulryan. i suppose that is what they were asking about. the qu...

He's gotten testy in the last couple of weeks but now if he hangs on and he loses pennsylvania, and that's a very real possibility, it will wipe away all of the good that he's done for himself for the future. all he'll be remembered as the guy who couldn't carry his home state when by contrast, governor romney carried massachusetts with 74% of the vote. so i think it's in rick's interest to get out, to be the loyal soldier, to say he'll do anything that governor romney wants him do going down the trail and declare victory. he's just done way better than any of us would have expected. >> and th...

Rom knee. any -- romney. any surprises there, karl? >> it is down to a two-person race. doesn't mean there isn't room for somebody to claw into that acceptables. there is washington abc poll, six out of 10 iowa caucus-goers say they could change their minds in less than, and five out of every 10 of the very likely caucus voters say they are likely to stick with their choice. we have a lot of fluidity left in the system and a month of calendar days and probably about 20 one or 22 days or 23 days of most of campaigning before people sort of lock up their opinions before christmas. then there wil...