those conservative swing voters and the tax the rich thing not going to do it. brian: the president in new york last night got 2 million bucks. he had 60 people conveniented and one of the statements was it will be close, but if the election was held today, he would win. in the national poll, it s dead even. in rasmussen, he s trailing by five points. let s talk about the economy, there is a lot of people going to get laid off with sequestering coming up, for example, if you work for a defense contractor. if you work for the government, there is a standard that you have to give everybody 60 days notice before you release them. that s the law. gretchen: we should remind people that southwest race is sequestration is a result of the republicans and democrats not able to come together to fix our deficit, the super committee. they came up with nothing. so these automatic cuts went into effect. originally they were so severe, especially for the department of