economy forward, for how to lift the middle class. in that sense i think his convention was a terrible failure. he never talked about the principal planks of his own plan and talked about his $5 trillion tax cuts skewed to the wealthy and never talked about turning medicare into a voucher pro gram. there is so many things that he didn't talk about and people walked away the voters trying to decide and said what alternative exactly is he offering. >> chris: but you keep talking about romney. i would like to talk about the obama record and i want to put some statistics up on the screen. unemployment was 7.8% when the president took office. it is now 8.3%. median household income was almost $55,000. it is now less than $51,000. gas was $1.85 a gallon when took office and now it is $3.78, almost double. the national debt was $10.6 trillion and it may go past 16 trillion dollars this