8.525-4389%, whatever it was, saying your pain is my rounding error. i don t think it s playing well. it s getting worse. bret: so is president obama hitting a chord, paul, with the fairness. stastatements in the wake of numbers that don t line up he is raising doubts about mitt romney with them. i don t think there is any question about them. particularly the bain attacks. not so much his wealth but bain and the outsourcing. if you talk to the romney campaign they say some of it has hurt. it hurt perception of romney s empathy and his image as a job creator. some of that has hurt. however, the problem with the president he can t do anything about the underlying fundamentalfundamentals that mea mentioned. that is what defining the race importantly for him. he can t overcome that. he has to change the subject. that s what he is trying to do with romney. romney s channel is not so much to sell the american public that the economy is ba bad. people got that. it s what am i going to