obama won with 53% of the vote and you can see these swing states went solidly for the president this time around. where are we specifically with unemployment? nevada and florida have unemployment rates that are above the national average. it s also right about where it was when the president took office. but take a look at this, nevada, 11.7%, when the president took office, it was 9.6%. now the rest of the battle ground states are doing better, they are stronger now than when the president got into office and they re still improving. i mean iowa, virginia, new hampshire, all around 5%, ohio you see the significant drop in its jobless rate over the past year. ohio now 7.4%. again, better than the national average. and better than when the president took office when it was 8.6. candy the trend in these battleground states employment is getting better. can the president win on jobs in these states and will that decide the election. yes, it s about jobs, but i think it s abou
in connecticut some 215,000 people remain without power, more than a week after that freak october snowstorm. connecticut light and power is promising 99% of their customers will have electricity by tomorrow night. this morning the governor said that a 99% threshold must be reached. anything less than 99% restored number is unacceptable. we ll get a live update on the swan the situation in connecticut later. five of the republican candidates spoke at the annual ronald reagan dinner end des moines. mitt romney and herman cain were no shows. rick perry drew applause with his plan that would freeze the pay of a lot of federal workers. until the budget gets balanced i m going to impose an across the board pay freeze for congress and all federal employees pay outside of the military and the public safety areas. iowa s first in the nation presidential caucus is on january 3rd. across america now growing anger at big banks and their rising fees and some of those banks co
private sector added 110,000 jobs in october. and president obama makes a new push for money to fix the nation s roads and bridges in a speech this hour. he ll call on congress to pass the transportation component of his jobs bill. which includes money for infrastructure. the president will use a bridge in washington s georgetown area as a backdrop and we ll take you there live. the speech is set for 11:25 eastern time. and we have new pictures today of a jetliner s dramatic emergency landing in poland. earlier video showed it from a side angle. here, you can see the plane coming in, with no landing gear at all. somehow the pilot manages to steer it onto the runway on its belly. no one on the flight from newark, new jersey to warsaw was injured. one of the presidential candidates, herman cain s accusers may speak out about her allegations of sexual harassment. her attorney says the key is getting the national restaurant association, where the complaint was filed, to wai