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Swing states that will decide who is elected in the 2012, president obama leads mitt romney 47-39. he leads rick santorum 48-39. he leads ron paul 48-36. and the biggest one he has a lead over is newt gingrich. 52-32. i will say the numbers change dramatically in the last few months. polling being what they are, they can change in the economy gets worse. snapshot in time, most republicans were not expecting to see this at this stage of this race. is that a fair statement? >> eric: i don't -- why, things, the unemployment number comes down a little, the numbers go up on the obama side. they go ...

To actually get something done. so those are things we can agree with. on the stingy part, i disagree. americans are extremely generous. not only with the taxpayers dollars, our foreign aid is 1% of the budget. less than 1% of the budget. people give a lot to their churches, through non-profit organizations and americans also unlike a lot of people around the world, they give a ton of their time. >> eric: foreign aid is a quarter of -- >> kimberly: let me make a comment about carter. sorry to say it. he really was the worst president we have ever had in this country. it took a full generation ...

On waivers -- excuse me, the knicks picked him up on waivers and he went to the development league, right? for a while? and he was on the bench and one of their stars who is -- >> eric: amare stoudamire. >> bob: stoudamire had to sit on the bench and so they needed to pull the kid off the bench. >> eric: so he goes, richard carmello anthony. but last friday night he goes to l.a., kobe bryant, it's all about kobe. tired of hearing about jeremy lin. guess what happens? iermy lin puts up 38 points and puts ebay down. a great feeling. >> greg: do you think mondo is going to win "project runway?" >...

In politics is unemployment number is not as important as disposal income. as a factor to be elected president. if gas prices are that high, disposable income as well. >> eric: can i throw one thing out there? for every penny higher in the national average in gasoline, billion of spending disposal income comes out of the american economy. if it goes up a dollar, it's $100 billion. >> bob: let me ask dana a question. the democrats are obviously going to brag about this. they have been snake bit. up and down and up and down. is this something that obama should take carefully? dabs take it with a...

They smell like butterflies. >> kimberly: no, they don't. that is one of those things. by the way, what do you think? christie had the right thing on the flags at half mass? >> eric: i am not going there. i live in new jersey. if you want to fly the flag at half mass, i get it. people are outraged. military families outraged over the hoopla and outraged that christie would lower the flag for native, newark, new jersey. >> dana: you can -- [ overtalk ] >> kimberly: we're sliding out of this block. what kind of country do you think we live in? are americans generous or stingy? we will tell you w...