economic message. he said he was the candidate of change, but you still have 25 million people out of work. you still have almost 10% unemployment here in florida. you still have home values down and continuing to go down. you still have record number of foreclosures in florida. you still have median incomes suffering, middle income families suffering. florida is an epicenter of the housing crisis that put us into the great recession of 2008 and 2009. cnn senior political analyst david gergen joins us from jacksonville. david, mitt romney is not only focused on president obama, he s got newt gingrich to deal with as well. florida was one of the states that was hardest hit by the housing crisis. its unemployment rate remains above the national average. so is tuesday s primary going to end up as a referendum on whether voters who are focused on the economy can get behind mitt romney as the man to best fix it? reporter: probably so, ali, but i must tell you this has become
you still have almost 10% unemployment here in florida. you still have home values down and continuing to go down. you still have record number of foreclosures in florida. you still have median incomes suffering, middle income families suffering. florida is an epicenter of the housing crisis that put us into the great recession of 2008 and 2009. cnn senior political analyst david gergen joins us from jacksonville. david, mitt romney is not only focused on president obama, he s got newt gingrich to deal with as well. florida was one of the states that was hardest hit by the housing crisis. its unemployment rate remains above the national average. so is tuesday s primary going to end up as a referendum on whether voters who are focused on the economy can get behind mitt romney as the man to best fix it? reporter: probably so, ali, but i must tell you this has become such a personalized race. romney and gingrich have gone mano a mano in the several debates and we ve had sort
do you view china as a potential military threat to the united states? yes, they re a military threat. they ve indicated they re trying to development nuclear capability. for the record, china is not trying to develop nuclear capability. they have had nuclear weapons since 1964. the herman cain campaign tried to deal with its foreign policy problem every time it manifests. using a few different strategies. at one point his campaign told the daily caller mr. cain was getting a one-page briefing on foreign policy issues almost 3% every day. a full page. almost every day. when things did not get any better, despite that extensive briefing, instead of trying to explain it away, make people try to not worry about it, they have now tried to turn this into an asset. mr. cain telling the milwaukee journal sentinel after his interview if which he didn t know what libya was, i m not supposed to know anything about foreign policy.
united states? yes, they re a military threat. they ve indicated they re trying to development nuclear capability. ç for the record, china is not trying to develop nuclear capability. they have had nuclear weapons since 1964. the herman cain campaign tried to deal with its foreign policy problem every time it manifests. at one point his campaign told the daily caller mr. cain was getting a one-page briefing on foreign policy issues almost every day. a full page. almost every day. when things did not get any better, despite that extensive briefing, instead of trying to explain it away, make people try to not worry about it, they have now tried to turn this into an asset. mr. cain telling the milwaukee journal sentinel after his interview if which he didn t know what libya was, i m not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. to be fair, mr. cain also says that about things other than foreign policy.
some responsibility for this. in late 60 s and 1970 s, western population planning organizations like you know, national planned parenthood and the united nations and the ford foundation, did a lot of work encouraging all sorts of measures like sex selective abortion over in asia. paul: i want to read awe quote, she says, historically societies in which men substantially outnumber women are not nice places to live, end quote. do you agree with that? it seems as such. when you look at history as far as back to ancient greece and china and during the the tai ping real bullion and america s wild west, a gender imbalance for different reasons, tend to be violent and reports on interesting chinese studies which track the sex imbalance as it manifests when it almost is followed 18, 20 years later by