and i don t, but the popular vote is tight. on to what is happening in the swing states, republican governors like to point out and we will elaborate on that, wait a minute. we are running these states, you are seeing the improvements in a last them because republican governors are exacting the changes. what do you say do that? guest: it complicates mitt romney s tack. he is trying to make the case that obama is not good for the economy and we are worse off than four years ago but in a lot of states, in florida rick scott and in ohio, john kasich, they have unemployment rates under the national average. romney has had his message undercut. neil: where does that come? when times are good the incumbent benefits and the times are bad, he doesn t. the governor is not
do not mention the word december report. insist it wasn t pre-planned. anyone can tell you there were serious ambushes and attacks and obviously heavy weapons. it was obviously pre-planned. neil: enough pre-planned for the ambassador himself to worry if his diary for his own safety and the growing dangers around him. can we get our hands on cables to the state department that might haved of that or confirmed that? obviously, he was worried. guest: we can get our hands on the cables. after the election. this administration does not have a classic foreign policy or security or military policy or even domestic policy. everything is politics.
spirit factors versus the uptick this month, or if you correct the employment statistic, private sector jobs are up a little bit. that is the tail of the dog. neil: thank you. with the economy struggling which poll should you buy? swing states where the president is gaining? or the real clear politics national average showing the rights show that neither candidate has the upper hand. my guest is keeping track of this. what do we maybe of this, tom? guest: well, it is a mess. it is confusing. we have a variety of polls showing a variety of things. gallup is showing obama with a six-point lead. another poll from the last ten days show it is a one-point race but obama has extended the lead in thible average to four points. with the latest round swing
election, the networks had it dead even but we won by 205,000 votes. neil: i remember well. do you think the polls as we know them, maybe not deliberately or by design, the way though are constructed understate or undercount sentiment. guest: i was surprised the next day, one of the other networks, one of the commentators, said maybe there is a certain reason, he did not suggest bias but just saying in the exit pollses sometimes people are more right of center conservative. voters are reluctant to talk to the media, period, and they underrepresent this. neil: are we beyond that margin of error given the fact that the double digit lead in ohio whether you believe it offer not, say, six or seven points is not to be believed, is it still tight? guest: i think it is tight.
ammunition and weapons. if they had nuclear material they could hand it to a terrorist. necessity they were going to kill the saudi ambassador in washington. they lied their way out of it. president obama is approach that leads behind. he would have to have proof, by now, they were responsible. neil: much has been made with the president not meeting with world leaders when he was in town and go on the view. guest: he is not a president but a candidate. the world is in turmoil right now. american ambassador killed for the first time since jimmy carter. two seals and another diplomat killed. people being killed in syria each day in large numbers. american soldiers still being killed in afghanistan without much of a plan on how to figure out how to get out of afghanistan without more damage. i can go on and on and on.