But those earnings, not least apple last night, failing to give the bulls enough courage really to drive the market higher. We will see how we fare during the course of the next 60 minutes, sue. Back to you. As you just mentioned, positive news on the economy ahead of the elections. U. S. Gdp growing faster than expected. It looks like consumers are hanging in there. But corporations are still sitting on the sidelines. Our Steve Leisman is here to break down the data and look at what it all means for the economy ahead. We saw from the data this morning a split economy with consumer growth hanging in there. We saw that also with this mornings confidence numbers. Business investment though is flat to down. The best part of the 2 growth number is that it is an improvement from the weaker 1. 3 figure from the second quarter. And the housing we got started to show up in the broader economy. Heres how we got to 2 prg . Consumers, 1. 42 Percentage Points to the gain. Business, investments and
i don t want to start on a defeater s note here but the cnn poll on monday had you at 1% of the vote to be the republican nominee. i don t really care what the national poll say. they don t really matter at all at this point. the polls that matter are in iowa, new hampshire, and south carolina. those are the first three states. folks from new york and california don t have much of a say at this point and whether we re doing well there or not doesn t really matter. we need to do well in iowa. the most recent poll we went from 2% to 3% in the most recent poll has us at 7% or 8% as a result of our finish at ames and a good grassroots organization on the ground there and that s where we re spending our time and getting the attention in front of the people and telling them our vision for how we re going to create jobs, how we re going to get this country moving again, how we re going to build on the strong moral traditions of our country and how to make our people safe. how