and both groups are equally likely to vote. that never happens. we think of the tea party people as being the people who are motivated. they re the one who is always turn out. and cuccinelli has banked had his campaign on saying this is a weird off-year election. if i can get my base out, i m going to be fine. but it turns out this same process of turning against republicans is turning people against the tea parties. you re so smart. this is the old karl rove theory that no matter how much the middle worried about you, you can get the nasties out. right on that point, virginia matters because its election results are as you ve been saying is nearly identical matchup to the national numbers as we were just mentioning. catch this number. i don t care if you like numbers or not. you ll like this one. in the 2012 presidential election obama got 51.1% of the vote. mitt romney got 47.2%. in virginia the president got 51.2% and romney got 47.3%. reached a new high in today s washington post
damage, let s talk about the severity of these particular storms. you were saying earlier about the what did you say, it was 140 mile an hour winds that would do damage like this, rip these trees, shred these trees like this? yeah. you never can put a certain number. you can t say it s 147.2 miles per hour. there really isn t such a thing you do a range. this range is somewhere in the ef-3 category. an ef-1 on the fujita scale, enhanced fujita, that s why we have to use the e in front of it. there s 0-5. zero takes a couple shingles, knocks off a couple limbs. a 2 will probably take off the roof structure and couple of 4 x 8 pieces of plywood. 3, removes the trusses like we see here. part of that roof is completely gone. 4 removes some of the outside walls. if you get to a 5, there are no walls left at all. we re not 5. there are walls left. some of the outside walls are
applications jumping now to a four-month high. that means 385,000 americans filing for first-time benefits in the last week alone. that is up now three weeks in a row. this news as a brand new study shows 60% of jobs lost during the great recession were middle class jobs. peter doocy is on that live in washington. peter, good morning. those middle class jobs, are they coming back or not? reporter: bill, those mid-wage occupations have only made up a fraction, 22% of recovery growth but 58% has been with lower wage jobs. if you add up all the jobs have come back in food services and retail and ememployment services, you get 1.7 million jobs. that is where 43% of net employment growth during the recovery has been. that is according to the national employment law project. you look at the largest percentage growth in those fields over the last 10 full years, there are 47.2% more food prep workers now than there were in 2002.
the nations jobs lost during the recession were mostly in the middle class. and that they have replaced them with a surge of lower wage jobs. they have only really made up a fraction of recovery. 50% of the growth has been these jobs. if you add them up, you are looking at 43% of net employment growth, food services, retail, employment services, 1.7 million jobs. if you look at the largest in these fields over the last 10 years, there is 47.2% more than there were back in 2002. 25% more customer service representatives and almost 18% more registered nurses. about 16% more secretaries and about 12% more waiters. they re also more folks working in retail counters and earning paychecks. because most higher-paying fields either ongoing or haven t made up for all the losses that they felt during the recession.
out here. having a little bit of a slow response rate. in the swing states, look at where president obama s percentages are at. he did better in the swing states than overall. mitt romney s 47.2%. 12 swings states broadly outlined. we throw in pennsylvania and a minnesota among 0 others. the nonswing states, the president still has over 50.7% there. mitt romney, there s that number again, 47%. let s move on to the margin of victory in the swing states. the president had a four-point margin of victory in the nonswing states. it was closer to three points. let s move on to where he won and how it counted. here, 62% of electoral votes for the president. 332 out of 538. just six presidents, six presidents, have won at least two elections with 51% of the vote or more and not since eisenhower has any president done that. the president, though, only won