the president's job rating is actually a huge improvement since the last time we tested it. but new hampshire is such a fickle state with the independents. the fiscal message can play well there for republicans, but the social, as soon as the social issues popped a couple months ago that's when you saw the president's numbers pop back up again. new hampshire is a weird state. romney was just there last week. >> a lot of feel forget the history of states like new hampshire, maine. these are states that went solidly republican and not just in the '50s and '60s democrats didn't win either of those states until '92. but by '68 to '88, republicans won them all the time. let's go to michigan. i've got to say, this number is a lot closer than i expected. mitt romney only four points behind in michigan. what's happened there? >>. >> this is one you've had some republican ad spending in