0. we talk a lot on this show about the growing gap between haves and have knots. one that has citizens increasingly concerned. take the fact that ceo pay is skyrocketing while workers wages stagnate. back in 1989 corporate ceos were paid on average 58.5 times what their workers were paid. today it s 280 times the ratio of the pay of the ceo to the typical worker. how do we change that. what if the fix is actual lly staring us in the face. companies like southwest airlines and proctor and gambling are already doing it.
republic guests they are feeling bess mystic. are pessimistic. are you feeling pessimistic. 58.3% of the vote. romney was down 3.25%. they got to 58.5 and he is now down by 3%. megyn: can you say that again? all the numbers are coming at me too fast. 58.3% of the vote in, and romney is romney is down by 3 and a quarter points. when another two tenths of the vote comes, in he is now down by 3%. so, i mean, we re going to see this being chipped away throughout the evening. as i say, most of what is out are some big suburban counties and then a lot of these small reporting live counties. you rural counties. red with big blue blotches in it biggest cuyahoga county, cleveland. so the rest of the vote in these counties comes, in my suspicion is we re going to continue to see them chip away at that 3% lead.
historically won by the democrats and election day is won by the republicans. last time the republicans lost election day in ohio was 1964. the first vote, about 35% of the vote was early in absentee votes. when that first 35% came in, romney was behind by about 10%. now we have 58.5% of the vote in so increasing amount of it is the election day vote. that margin has now fallen to 3%. and if you look at it, we re already starting to see some counties be completely. in bellwether county lake county for bush in 2004. for obama in 2008 by a 49 by 50, 49 margin tonight. it is 50, 48 for romney. what we have got left out is, for example, we have only a third of the vote n hamilton county. we have the city of cincinnati in but we don t have the suburbs. bret: hamilton is a big republic area. big republic county. obama won it but he won it on
workers, people who wanted to be full-time workers and bringing them on full time. but that s different from hiring on a massive scale. we are not going to see that for quite sometime. you see that when you look at numbers that are not publicized as much as the unemployment rate. you look at the employment rate. it s 58.5%. only 58.5 percent of americans over 16 are employed. that s an amazing number and a record. that s an important one to look at. also, wages are not going up at all. last year, we have seen wages go up 1.9%, not with inflation. so this is really a tepid recovery in the job market. no question we should be cheering the fact that people are that there arions being created. but a lot more need to be created. so if you are not if you are not seeing the line shorter at
where are those jobs? let me show you how it breaks down. of the 243,000 jobs that were created, 257,000 jobs were created in the private sector. that s where everybody wants them created. you subtract the jobs that were lost by the government, 14,000, and you end up with that number, 243,000. let s talk about this with diane swonk, a chief economist, and with will cain and my good friend richard quest. what a treat to have all three of you with me in the studio. diane, these numbers are very strong. there s a disconnect between what some of our economic numbers and forks say and what the american consumer has been feeling. the american consumer has been telling us they have been feeling a little more energized about this economy and nothing helps them more than jobs. absolutely. this number is good and i want to underscore any way you cut the data, there s noise in it. you can take away some of the noise. we had people playing golf in chicago in january. that just doesn t