his campaign is running an ad as a result, highlighting his missile roots. you have presidents of americans out of work, home values collapsing, people in detroit are distressed. i want to make michigan stronger and better. michigan has been my home. this is personal. in addition to campaign ads and super pac, he will spend $640 million there in the coming days. the reason? santorum has a three-point lead overromney in the new york times poll at 30 percent to 27 percent with newt gingrich last at ten percent, and in the real clear politics average of all presidents santorum leads by less than 2 percent at more than 30 percent to romney 28.6 percent and newt gingrich at 16 percent and paul is last at 12 percent. now, last night, newt gingrich sounded leak his falling numbers have prompted some soul-searching about beating up on fellow republicans. listen. when we went back and analyzed, i do dramatically better when i focus on the nation s problems and i focus on
of what the u.s. is exporting. that s things like airplanes, car parts, computers, telecommunications equipment, all that kind of stuff. industrial supplies take about 28.6%. chemicals, cleaning materials. consumer goods 15%. cars, medicine. and then agricultural products help round that out, just under 10%. soybeans, fruit, corn, that kind of thing. so we re still sending out that as well. but there s still a lot of manufacturing in that as well. yeah, a lot. how many jobs tied to u.s. exports. jobs. exports of manufactured goods support more than 6.8 million jobs as of 2008. so a lot of times we have to wait for the 2009 figures to come in but we re looking at just under seven million jobs tied to exports of manufactured goods. that s about one in 17 private sector jobs if you flush it out. so maybe the president was speaking aspirationally we re going to be number one soon. i think politicians sometimes
elusive title he so desperately coveted. lebron james averaged 28.6 poin points, 10.2 rebounds, 7.4 assists, and is the unanimous choice for the mvp. when the clock hit triple zeros what s the first thing that ran through your mind? as about dam time. it s about dam time. good morning. finally did it. took a couple years. it s friday, june 2nd. welcome to morning joe. with us on set we have the executive editor at random house, pulitzer prize hisser to zan and time magazine contributor jon meacham to give us insights on lebron. the chairman of deutsch
gingrich if he doesn t do well in iowa? we looked at the numbers. now, i was one of the moderators at the last debate, last presidential debate we had on december 15th. that was a thursday. then i went on vacation for a week, you know, celebrated the christmas holiday and come back. look at the difference in the polling, okay? just go by that. this is the day before yeah, the day before the last presidential debate. and you could see, hold on, no, this is the current one. get rid of this one. i want to show them the old one. look at this. day before, 12/14, the last presidential debate. here it is. gingrich at 28.6%. 28.6. romney, 17; ron paul in third at 16. now look at it. gingrich, his numbers have been cut in half, byron, in half. he s down at 14.7% in the iowa average today. what happened? [laughter] you re right. the graph of newt gingrich s poll numbers looks like mount everest. i mean, it s way up and then way