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Again. i think people now are very nervous. they take it as a recession. >>gregg: congressman, bad numbers on unemployment claims this are up. secured confidence numbers down. retail sales are down. the president's golf handy cap is down. i bring that up, because i just sort of wonder why romney doesn't make a bigger deal of that. >> i tell you why. we now know what romney's strategy is, which just play it very safe and ride the deteriorating economy to victory in november and not do anything that ticks people off. not do anything controversial. try not to be the issue in the race. now, the pr...

Are better off than they were four years ago. but half, 48 percent, say they are not. and another 13 percent say their situation is unchanged. gentleman? >> well, one of the questions we talk about is what is happening this year? 2004 race, the presit versus -- president bush versus john mccain which was very close. or is it 1980, like a wave against an unpopular incumbent and a bad economy? i think the flee us -- three of us think it is more like 1980 with president obama wearing the role of jimmy carter. >>gregg: half the americans think the president's policies have made the economy worse. ...

Nervous. what bernanke is saying reflects the popular will, which is if we don't get the economy right, we could head into a recession. that's what is weighing down president obama's poll numbers and making this a very close race with things moving not direction of governor romney. >>gregg: at the same time, by a ten-point margin. look at this fox news poll. folks say taxing the rich, which is what the president wants to do, is a good idea. >>pat: nothing takes place if a vacuum. people think if they think of the economy that is bad. you tax the rich -- but we ask the questions in isolation th...