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Disingenuous. if we don't reform it, david, here's the bottom line, and martin and i agree, if we don't reform this medicare system, martin and i when we get to 65, it's not going to be solvent and our families won't be taken care of. that's the biggest difference. we have rhetoric of obama and we have serious, hard talks and real solutions from the romney/ryan ticket. we're in trouble in the country. we've got to make changes. >> governor o'malley i want to end on this point just to shift it a little bit and talk about the broader economy. the reality for voters is they go to the polls in all...

Martin and i agree, if we don't reform this medicare system, martin and i when we get to 65, it's not going to be solvent and our families won't be taken care of. that's the biggest difference. we have rhetoric of obama and we have serious, hard talks and real solutions from the romney/ryan ticket. we're in trouble in the country. we've got to make changes. >> governor o'malley i want to end on this point just to shift it a little bit and talk about the broader economy. the reality for voters is they go to the polls in all states is the unemployment situation. here were some of the state by st...

>> from now on, we're going to look for a brighter fuehrer. we're going to look for a united community, a prosperous community, and the negativity over the last two years will go away in no time. in afghanistan today, three american service members were killed by a gunman wearing an afghan military uniform. it happened here in the unstable helmand province. we heard a few details and about a couple of attacks on coalition forces this week alone. chris lawrence is at the pentagon. chris, what happened today in the helmand province? >> we're told the soldier was part of a coalition f...

The economy? there are so many measures. gdp, household income, inflation. but the one that gets the most attention, the most publicity, is the jobs number. well, there are two jobs numbers. there's the national jobs number that we hear so much about. but there are also 51 individual job numbers for the 50 states, plus the district of columbia. i think people are as influenced by their local numbers, their state numbers, as they are by the national number. so you look at that map that you just put up, romney would have to focus, for example, on florida, which florida and nevada, having higher ...

When you look at these state numbers in these key states of florida, virginia, and ohio, what do they tell you about the shape of the race for the electoral college? >> number one, when an incumbent is running, you look at their number first. it matters more than the challenger number. >> do you need to be 50? >> no, but he is at a reelectable number right now at 48, but just barely. and that's where obama is. he has 48% job approval rating overall, nationally 47 in the match up nationally, and here 489/11 the likely voter modelling in there, romney moves up a little. >> so is he walking on a ...