followed closely by l.a. if you re one of the worst cities, expect to spend, ready for this, a whopping 71 hours a year sitting in traffic going nutso for your commute. apparently americans may be feeling better about the jobs outlook in 2011. our deputy political director p paul steinhowser. a mixed bag here. check this out, brand new poll numbers. look at this, only about a quarter of americans say the economy is good right now. well, that doesn t sound very good, does it? that is up from 18% in november. so a little more optimism there. three out of four say things are poor. kyra, that is down from november. so i guess a mixed bag. the economy obviously will be the top issue you would assume in the next presidential election. we ll ask our camera to zoom in,
all right. mike chinoy, from the u.s.-china institute. we appreciate you as always. thank you very much. want to turn back to politics now in this country. we are counting down to the critical midterm election. in 23 days, people heading to the polls. political director paul steinhowser is ahead of the president s visit. reporter: good morning i m with the cnn election express in pennsylvania. and later today somebody a lot bigger than me is coming to pennsylvania. i m talking about the president, barack obama. he will be joined by vice president joe biden. they ll be in philadelphia for a rally. what they re trying to do is incite democratic voter to go to the polls on november 2. battle for governor, battle for senate, a bunch of house races that are very tight, as well. republicans think they can make a clean sweep in the state and feel if they do that they may win back control of congress. that s what s going on here in pennsylvania. back to you. thanks as always to our pau