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
over the last decade men and women are doing a good job of getting the right amount of exercise. 59.2% of women, 51.2% of men. as a whole we are eating more. the extra time we are spending at the gym is not enough to offset the extra calories that we are consuming which is my war the more than one third of adults and 17% of kids in this country are obese. public health experts are looking at the bright side, thee state is good more people are exercising and couple that with more and better efforts to promote healthy eating, we could finally soon start to see the obesity numbers come down a little bit. jenna: we will see. a potential new setback as delay imitation of the employer mandate. the key component of the law that requires small companies
defense attorneys were going to ask her questions but did not expect to be beat up as she was in the courtroom. now, she had come before don west before in depositions. the same demeanor that he had in the courtroom was pretty much the way he tried to handle her in the depositions. so what i did is i explained to her, i said there are going to be two sides and two different dynamics in the courtroom. you have to be ready for this. you re going to having mr. day la reon da is going to ask you questions and you can give the answers and open answers to them. when it gets to the defense side, they ll try to be as specific as possible. try not to get frustrated. okay? i expected she would be on the stand for probably an hour. i did not expect her to be on the stand for 51/2 hours. i think her frustration got the best of her the first time. she had an opportunity to get food, dinner, relax, calm down, go to her room, sleep it off and she came back the next day and put up a good fight. what
by white house aides that late in the evening last night into the early hours of this morning the president started dialing up john boehner, the house speaker on the republic side. harry reid the democrat. leaders in both parties to try to say look, let s get this conversation started, shep. shepard: ed, the campaign seemed very confident in this outcome is it saying anything about what might have surprised the campaign. what they are saying is they couldn t believe the margin of victory in colorado. a the love these battle grounds decided by a point or two. there you had a margin of 5 points. 51.2 to 46.5 for the president there are third party candidates in there like gary johnson who got the difference beyond mitt rom anymore. the other big surprise his campaign aides say is that the president was getting these returns in at the fairmont hotel with his family. staffers like david axelrod were planning to with be with him. they thought this race wasn t going to be called in the m
now t. continues its decline after that weak jobs report on friday but also, it s a tough week in general. on friday, interesting to note, it was the worst trading day across all the markets for the entire year. so it wasn t just the dow on s&p and nasdaq, they also had tough days. glad you re with us as we continue our coverage on all of this, i m jenna lee. jon: jon: a lot of peoples 401ks not looking like they used to. i m jon scott. the white house is watching key race in wisconsin. tomorrow voters will head to the polls in an election that could have a major impact come november. republican governor scott walker is fighting to keep his job. right now it s a tight race between walker and democratic challenger tom barrett. according to real clear politics average, walker is in the lead with 51.2% of the vote, barrett has almost 45 percent. bret baier is the anchor of special report . he is in wisconsin, and joins us now, live from madison.