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His record, let's take his strength first. >> his strength first is that he balanced the budgets for the past five years. he inherited of 11 billion-dollar structural budget deficit from jon corzine. he has been able to do that with the democratic legislature. unemployment has dropped. but the bad news household income down, median house value down. and new jersey has only garnered 62% of the jobs they lost during the recession. just 52%. >> the economy is mid links middling but he is good on the debt. >> problem with pension. >> down the road? >> yes. >> he is a controversial governor because...

>> i think it's been some time. >> before the bubble burst? >> no, no. i think 9/11. before 9/11 is when people -- things were okay. but that changed the equation. i mean, we went into our two longest wars. we were handing out big money to big banks. >> i would differ just slightly because we experienced a great boom in the country from '04 to '07, and it was when the housing bubble burst that things changed so dramatically for middle-class families across the country. and particularly middle-class america thinks about how their bank account, how their housing, how their house value has change...

This bs, basically, a guy who has had no military experience, he talks about how tough he's going to be. what does it mean translated into u.s. policy? what does he want to do? joe? >> the scary thing about this campaign is that we don't have any idea what he want to do or which policies he's going to support. i mean, you know, this has been, i think, an insult to the intelligence of the american people because of the lack of details, the lack of, you know, of content here. and, you know, we saw the stock market go up 200 points today and when people, you know, romney is allegedly running on t...

Tough he's going to be. >> the scary thing about this campaign is that we don't have any idea what he wants to do or which policies he's going to support. we saw the stock market go up 200 points today. romney is allegedly running on the economy. well, for most people, the economy isn't the unemployment figures. the economy is two things, your house value, and your 401(k). housing values are going back up, and the market is almost back to where it was almost four years ago, so the one thing that he has, he doesn't really have. >> and consumer confidence is also going up, joe. >> this question ...

polls. economic conditions vary greatly from state to state. let's take a look at a few. vermont's unemployment rate is at 5.1%. that is much lower than the 8.3% national average. in january, only one in about 21,000 homes in vermont were in the foreclosure process. a very different picture in ohio. unemployment much higher there, 8.1%, though lower than the national average. 1 in 616 homes is in foreclosure in ohio. in georgia, it's seen some of the worst numbers. unemployment there, 9.7%. higher than the national average. 1 in 328 homes are in the foreclosure process in georgia. cn...