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Than an hour until the closing bell. record-setting day on wall street, folks. the dow jones industrial average topping 15,000. that is a new high. it is just below at the moment. getting a live look here, up 136 points, just below, again, that 15,000 mark. what's happening today, you ask? well, big boost comes after the monthly jobs report. it came out this morning for the month of april showing that the economy added 165,000 jobs. the unemployment rate fell to 7.5%. that is the lowest we have seen since december of 2008. so with all this positive news, let's go to allison kison kosik new yor...

i want to bring in mark preston to talk about with what all of this means. i guess in a way mark, we knew that things were partisan. that's not surprising. but if you look at how pew researchers measure this, 48 different ways of measuring how we feel about politics over the years, and they find that we're more divided than ever. almost double over the past 25 years. why? >> you know suzanne, talk about a comprehensive study that pew has done now, you know, there's a lot of reasons. and what's interesting is that it shows that not only are we more divided politically but also seeing ...

News/marist poll showing mitt romney appearing to be losing ground with conservatives instead of winning them over. the poll shows that while romney trailed newt gingrich by 5% on monday, by tuesday after that 16%. romney's trouble with conservatives is the subject of the cover story in the new "national journal," entitled "romney the follower." ron fournier, editor in chief, joins me now. ron, in fact, as i was say earlier to david gregory and matt bai, my information today is that from inside the rony camp, their numbers were even worse. they showed that mitt romney had fallen behind gingric...

tie. doesn't change the delegate count. mitt romney saying in his statement this, the results from the iowa caucus revealed a virtual tie. i would like to thank the iowa republican party for their careful attention to the caucus process. people might want to talk about that a little bit and recognize rick santorum for his strong performance in the state. great start to defeating president obama in iowa and else where in the general election. he leaves out a big thing which is, really, is he 34 points behind rick santorum and does it matter? let's get to shannon travis in des moines t...

by our election team and around the country and the world. stand by to learn more about edith and carolyn, who solved the case of the missing votes. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." so long, iowa, hello, new hampshire. the republican presidential candidates are zeroing in on the next battlefield and a big primary coming up on tuesday. the front-runner, mitt romney, is following up his squeaker win in iowa with a new endorsement from senator john mccain who beat him in the new hampshire primary four years ago. several of romney's opponents also are in new hampshire ...