probably know a run away for romney. so much he didn t have to spend any y to win the state. but underdog candidates like rick santorum and jon huntsman are still hoping to pull off second place as an exhibition of momentum regardless of who wins tonight. voters we talked to are all in agreement about one thing. they are frustrated. everything is wrong now. i mean, look at the debt we re in. look at the foreign relations we have. everything seems to be going downhill. every stride that we ever made going forward, we re going backwards. and, you know, things aren t good. people aren t working. i m just blessed to have a job. ron allen is live in manchester, new hampshire. how are republicans reconciling the frustration we heard from that voter? and i suspect many others. i think mitt romney is feeling frustration himself.
forward. that smacks of somebody encouraging them to do it after all these years. it is having run a presidential campaign and been the recipient of all kind of nasty stuff on my opponents i can tell you that it very rarely bears itself out. in this case, just so i can clarify this one more time there is no doubt in my mind that politico and others got this from other republicans. not from democrats. eric: you said the exact same thing i said on the other side. greg: here we go again. eric: how about this. how about this. let me be conspiratorial now. greg: for a change. eric: politico gets it from the democratic party or someone on the left. and they say don t name your source. make it look like it came from a campaign. and all of a sudden we get dig down to the minutia of this instead of concentrating on what really matters, jobs, economy, unemployment, people aren t working. things aren t working. we waste all of this time worrying whether herman cain went like this to a
the president is on the topic of jobs. that is where we need to put 80% of our focus, and it is the reason we have these deficits, because we re losing $4 trillion in this decade, because people aren t working. we ve got, oh, 12 to 25 million people out of work or working two and three part-time jobs. this is a huge drag on the economy and also our trade deficit. we re half a trillion more goods come in here from elsewhere than we re able to export. the trade deficit is a hue downdraft on growth in this country, so the president is on the right subject. i find the president sort of between home plate and first base inรง terms of where he reay needs to be on jobs, and we need to incentivize job creation in our country, because all these tax benefits that have been going out for well over a decades have created jobs in china, jobs in indonesia, jobs in mexico, but not enough jobs
salt of bills, my progressive caucus members have put in. but it s got to be a pro job majority in congress. people who are all fixed on making sure americans are working. you know, if we cut the unemployment rate down to 5%, this deficit and debt debate would be much, much less significant than it is right now. the only reason that we have to focus on debt reduction is because people aren t working. we don t have enough tax payers. that s what we should be focusing on, putting america back to work. nice to see you. thanks for your time. thank you. we ll talk more about the country s credit rating. ron is standing by for us to talk more about this as we take a peek at our national debt clock. it makes me nervous to look at it. let s talk about the credit rating. and the powerful control these rating agencies have. where does it stand right now? it s up in the air.
putting people back to work. i mean, what 9.2% unemployment means in real numbers is somewhere between 13 and 15 million people aren t working. americans are not working. they can t pay their bills. no matter how much they like and admire our president, they want somebody to solve the problem. they are looking seriously at republicans to say, i may not be a republican, but if you can put me back to work and help me pay my bills, i ll give you a chance. that s what they want. at the end of the day they want to pay their bills. okay. can i ask you this, joe. michele bachmann made this comment on cnbc yesterday on what the unemployment numbers are doing for her campaign. let s listen to this. does it strike you that as the unemployment rate goes up your chances of winning also go up? well, that could be. again, i hope so. my candidacy is one that i m presenting to be a job creator to turn the economy around. there are suggestions that some of the republicans want the