month. this has been an ongoing investigation and we ve been keeping you updated on the show. dharun r amount vi begins his 30-day jail sentence after writing a letter admit thank the spying on his roomate was insensitive and stup, that roomate, tyler clemente, later took his own life. jon: you re inside america s election headquarters now, the inside track to the 2012 campaign. so now that governor mitt romney has enough delegate toss clench the republican nomination, let s see where he stands in a head to head race against president obama. over at real clear politics, today s average of the polling shows president obama slightly ahead of governor romney, 45.9% to 43.6. scott rasmussen is an independent pollster, president of rasmussen
any surrogate to be in front of this with him as the chief messenger. he s going around the country. he s going to be the lead on this. and i think that s going to make the difference on whether or not somebody s going to decide, should i pick up and call my congressperson and say, support the president s bill. jeff, the president s jobs bill pushed, the new numbers in from the census bureau showing the u.s. poverty rate has risen to 15.1%. that s the highest in 27 years. when we get down to the hard numbers, that s about 46.2 million people. or nearly one in six considered to be in poverty. that s upticking from 43.6% in 09. so did this lend itself greater urgency to the bill getting approved, cutting through what is considered to be this major stalemate in washington between the left and the right? well, the question is really going to be, can the gop look beyond politics and really see the humanity of the people in the united states? i don t think that anybody, regardless of th
southeast asia, vietnam and the philippines were hit badly last week. back to you jon. jon: david piper live from bangkok, thank you. jenna: happening now on wall street, stocks are taking a breather after the dow gained 100 points in summer trading, consumer confidence is slipping again, the commerce department s index is falling. david lee mill ser joining us. how are we feeling about this economy? reporter: let me say this, maybe they should consider renaming this index, instead of the consumer confidence index, it should be the consumer lack of confidence index. why do i say that? let s take a look at some of the specifics of these numbers. the index dropped sharply for the month of july, down now to 50.4%, that s compared with 54.3% in the month of jub. of june. let s talk specifically now, some of the people surveyed, 43.6% of those asked if conditions are bad now economically, compared with
glrepublican voted for that law. premiums are rising, premiums on average for a family of four making $60,000 a year, that s going to spike by 43.6%. but the misery for you, the american people, it doesn t end there. the president promised choices for americans on the exchanges. sadly, the opposite has happened. major insurers are all pulling out of states because they are losing money on the exchanges. they said they lost over $1 billion just for participating in obamacare. states like alabama, alaska, oklahoma, south carolina, wyoming, people buying on the exchanges, they only have one single insurer to choose from now. on top of that, the numbers of health care insurance providers