and one is certainly seen as benefiting democrats in new jersey and maybe even nationally and that seems to be the choice that he s made here. well, tamron. when he was presented with this entire situation of appointing and having to appoint someone, he was going to end up pleasing no one particularly as it comes to this timeline and what he decided to do was a primary held in august and a general election to be held in october. for him that brings two pieces of criticism. the cost of holding a separate october special election for the senate that would actually take place just two weeks before the general election in new jersey when chris christie himself is going to be on the ballot. the second point of criticism is it looks like this is a way to avoid the situation where a popular democratic mayor of newark cory booker would be on the ballot at the same time that he would in the general election. i don t think chris christie is in trouble of losing his race for reelectio
benefiting democrats in new jersey and maybe even nationally and that seems to be the choice that he s made here. well, tamron. when he was presented with this entire situation of appointing and having to appoint someone, he was going to end up pleasing no one particularly as it comes to this timeline and what he decided to do was a primary held in august and a general election to be held in october. for him that brings two pieces of criticism. the cost of holding a separate october special election for the senate that would actually take place just two weeks before the general election in new jersey when chris christie himself is going to be on the ballot. the second point of criticism is it looks like this is a way to avoid the situation where a popular democratic mayor of newark cory booker would be on the ballot at the same time that he would in the general election. i don t think chris christie is in trouble of losing his race for reelection, but there is a concern tha
advantage. as we all know sometimes joe biden is saying things that actually draw attention. so i do think that this is going to be a must-see debate for the country, and, of course, the obama campaign is hoping for a little better performance. very gracious way to talk about things that the vice president said in the past. mark murray, thank you very much. thanks, alex. in this week s office politic, christy todd whitman, first to defeat an uncome bent governor in an election. today new jersey s only female governor. talks chris christie and her role about bringing a very famous dog to the white house. first we talk about the female vote. do you think that the gop is at risk of losing the female vote for a generation potentially? if they re not careful, yes. absolutely. i mean, it s interesting, because young women today don t remember the women s movement. to them, they ve grown up with
0 because people leave the job market. give up looking for work. we actually saw that in august, but in september, that 0.3 decline in the unemployment rate was the good way. a lot more people got work. that also tells you, though, the numbers jump around from month to month and you have to be careful to kind of average out over the past few months. now, i did that with the payroll number. that s the 114,000 you mentioned. that s the more reliable number on a monthly basis. average that out over the past three moss adding about 150,000 jobs per month. compare that to the prior three month, adding only about 70,000. real acceleration in job growth and the unemployment rate coming down for good reasons this time. something else to look at here. big differences in unemployment when it comes to breaking it down race by race. right. look at asians. 4.8%. whites, 7%. for hispanics, the rate is almost 10% there. for african-american, it s over 13%. why is there such a massive divide?
and mitt romney on the latest jobs numbers. the president hailing the 7.8% number as a sign of a recovering economy. a .3% drop from last month. mitt romney, meanwhile, downplaying it. we learned the unemployment rate is now at its lowest level since i took office. more americans are entering the work force. more americans are getting jobs. too many of our friends and neighbors are still looking for work or struggling to pay the bills. many of them since long before the crisis hit. we owe it to them to keep moving forward. we ve come too far to turn back now. you realize the number of people in america, the participation of our adults in the work force were the same as when we got elected our unemployment rate would be about 11%. people in this country are having a hard time finding a job. people in this country are having a hard time making ends meet even if they do have a job. the 7.8% figure is the lowest since the president took office and total employment increased