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The idea of the american dream -- interesting juxtaposition. america, we think of america as the place that is the most mobile. right? de toqueville said in democracy in america, have no word for peasant. that class is unknown. the mobility relative to other countries. denmark, three times as mobile. intergenerational mobility, father to son. denmark, norway, sweden, canada, mobile places in the u.s. the only place less mobile the class-bound world of the u.k. from which we broke off partly to slow off shackles of aristocratic domination. ask about the american dream, polling on do you think t...

economic message. >> he said he was the candidate of change, but you still have 25 million people out of work. you still have almost 10% unemployment here in florida. you still have home values down and continuing to go down. you still have record number of foreclosures in florida. you still have median incomes suffering, middle income families suffering. >> florida is an epicenter of the housing crisis that put us into the great recession of 2008 and 2009. cnn senior political analyst david gergen joins us from jacksonville. david, mitt romney is not only focused on president obama,...

you still have almost 10% unemployment here in florida. you still have home values down and continuing to go down. you still have record number of foreclosures in florida. you still have median incomes suffering, middle income families suffering. >> florida is an epicenter of the housing crisis that put us into the great recession of 2008 and 2009. cnn senior political analyst david gergen joins us from jacksonville. david, mitt romney is not only focused on president obama, he's got newt gingrich to deal with as well. florida was one of the states that was hardest hit by the housing...