incident? handzus hannity starts right here, right now. we will all be here as we are just now hours away from the opening of the polls in arizona and michigan. tomorrow voters in those states will decide who they want to see challenge barack obama for the press tency in november and ahead of those contests, some brand new polling data is giving us an idea what we can expect on tuesday. first we go to arizona. frontrunner mitt romney boasts a comfortable 13-point lead over rick santorum, and they are trailed at a distance by former speaker of the house newt gingrich and congressman ron paul. but on the ground in gov. romney s own home state of michigan things are too close to call. just last week senator rick santorum closed the gap and trails romney by two points, 38 to 36%. tonight you will hear from sen. santorum, but first i m joined by former massachusetts governor mitt romney. thanks for coming back. thank you, sean. i think i see a drum set behind you. are you
will lag behind improvements in the economy. for those out of work, the job market is all that matters. it wasn t all bad news. mostly but not all. for one thing the revised figures from the labor department showed the economy created 4,000 jobs in the month of november. that s the first gain in almost two years but on balance as you say the news at the labor department this morning is about as chilling as today s wintry weather here in the capital. let s start with the underemployment rate. this includes the unemployed people, those part-time workers and discouraged workers just giving up looking for work. that total figure offer seen as a more reliable gauge than just simple unemployment numbers, that s at 7.32%. up .1% in the month of november and hovering at a 15-year high. just compare it to for us. as we wait at the east room of the white house, 2009 is fully on the books. we know the economy as a whole cut 4.2 million jobs in 2009 and the average unemployment rat
. . you know i last eight minutes in a for the festival tonight. jay rockefeller who chairs the subcommittee on health care. great, thanks for your time tonight, senator. thanks, pete. i was there. i didn t realize it was that bad. it was that bad. politico reporting tonight that the blue dog democrats in the house want to delay their floor vote until after the senate has its bill completed. that that shed any light on what you call the substantial slow walk in your own committee? no, because we don t have any blue dogs on our committee. we have republicans, and that more than makes up for it. it is absolutely extraordinary. i think the average amendment that the republicans offered, or ones that they were trying to beat down that we offered took up one hour in which people talked endlessly, endlessly, endlessly. and i ve never seen anything like it, but i love the way you put that together into a montage that just showed how really pathetic it was. under the guise