that we fight to bring the economy from 750,000 jobs lost a month to three years later we've had 22 straight months of private sector job growth. we've begun to turn the economy around. people know that president obama is fighting for them. they know that any one of the republicans, especially mitt romney, is fighting to -- >> it is interesting, chris, david, as a reporting matter, as republicans they will concede the fact that a lot of people like this president personally. they like him to succeed. that runs counter to a lot what have you hear here on the hustings which is, you know, we've got to get power back to reverse what he's done. >> the toughest challenge for the president is the economy and if the unemployment rate is going up to 9% by the end of this year, that's a real challenge, isn't it? >> the economy and jobs is the number one issue on everybody's minds. the president has a record that has taken us from being in a really impossibly difficult situation, the worst economic problem, the who the set of problems inherited at once by any president since fdr, and now