320.1 electoral votes, up nearly 11 in the last couple weeks or last week, romney at 217.9. 320 is a lot of electoral votes. that would be i think a mandate. so well i don t know if i would call ate mandate necessarily. if you have a small advantage in the popular vote and then if the swing states behave accordingly, obama s polling is stronger in the swing states it would look impressive on the map, it would be a below average margin for the incumbent. romney does have his work cut out for him. of the six we talked about before, the two biggest problems are probably ohio where he hasn t led in the poll by a long time and, in fact, his best polls put him down three or four points. the worst put him down nine or ten points. ohio is a huge problem for romney right now and wisconsin where he seemed to get a bounce often due when he named paul ryan has faded and see how single digits, a couple
provided more federal money to keep those cops and fire fighters and teach others the job. without that money more states and cities are going to have to let those myle class workers go. so, you know, it is all it is sort of like it doesn t matter to mitt what he says. he can shrug it off and sthak the etch-a-sketch. he s not really talking about the real world of middle class families losing jobs and as we are talking about losing that net worth in an incredible tragic fashion. that s not where his head is at. when you look at the time report from the federal reserve shows how badly the bush recession hurt most americans, the median wealth of american families fell 38% in just three years. matching the level not seen since 1992. 2001 to 2004, up 1%. 2004 to 2007 went up 17.9%. in wen2007 to 2010 went down 38.
takes will come back, too. budget experts say get back to 17.9% of gdp if we keep the bush tax cuts and let the economy come back. if that happens our deficits will be huge. huge. so we have to do something. but mitt romney and president obama have very very very different ideas as to what to do and who should pay for it. obama s budget wants to raise taxes on the rich by $1.5 trillion. taxes rise to 19.2% of gdp. romney wants to cut taxes further, would extend the bush tax cuts and reduce taxes on the rich. taxes would fall to about 17% of gdp. but what is interesting in these two plan is is who would pay. the tax policy center is a great group of non-partisan budget people that look at it in more detail than i can stand. they emerge from their caves and blink because they haven t seen the sunlight forever, and give us great estimates how much different groups of people would pay under the plans. they looked at obama and
problem. reporter: the challenge for the u.s. is as we saw play out for bought parties with the failure of the super committee, the u.s. has serious debt problems of its own right now. megyn: let s compare what they got going on to what s happening near the united states. looking at unemployment we are at%. but look at these numbers from europe. 22.6% unemployment in spain. greece 17.9%. ireland and greece both in the double digits. france is almost there. these are from the international monetary fund numbers. the zone s combined debt is $11 trillion. the put together than that s
there is the loss resulting from the destruction of property, as a result of this event. there are work stoppages, but you see, let s look at the bigger picture. the bigger picture is we have been able to weather the crisis of those 18 days without an increase in the budget deficit of 17.9%. of course, the longer this continue the more difficult it will become to maintain this position. let s not forget why these protests began in the first place. people are fed up with the unemployment. people are they re tired of a government that they say is not on their side, that they re tired of a government they say is one that has not been allowing them to flourish, to earn a decent wage, to really be a stronger part of the region, to really be a rich part of the region. unemployment was huge.