the rocky music? jenna: yes, okay. all right. you re onto something. kind of like that. fred, thank you very much. fred barbash with cq. thank you. jon: my younger daughter had the lead in her school production of annie . the sun will come out tomorrow. i could sing it for you. she was better at it. jenna: can we hear jon sing? jon: not right now. jenna: stay with us you might see it. jon: some other time. we are america s election headquarters and our next story could be a window just how rough this presidential campaign could get. the nasty sniping over the ad campaign that never got off the drawing board. what the ad would have focused on and reaction from both sides. plus the private spacecraft set to head to the international space station tomorrow. former nasa astronaut tom jones joins us next with this new era in space.
barack obama? that s the worst thing is i don t know. last night after the debate i posted on my facebook wall that i felt worse after that debate, and i m going to go start a cupcake shop. [laughter] greg freg well, if she doesn t know, maybe they don t like any of them. david hockings, editor of cq s roll call daily briefing. michele bachmann, rick perry and rick santorum should be tea party favorites, and yet their poll numbers are absolutely abysmal. is the influence of the tea party beginning to diminish? what s going on here? well, i think i don t think the influence of the tea party is beginning to diminish. i think it s a little early yet. they ve still got a little time to get themselves together. one thing that, of course, we need to remember is the tea party is not a monolith, it s not even, i would argue, as monolithic at the socially conservative movement. the tea party is a pretty
time. the reaction from the american people will be will be very, very negative. thinking big, is it doable? yes, is the political will power there to do it? that s the yes that will be answered in the next few weeks. i know it s a busy day up on capitol hill. thank you for taking time. we re joined by david hawkings, the editor of the cq role call daily briefing. let s go we know kind of where we are right now. let s look i m always an around the corner guy. do we think that this $4 trillion proposal has any possibility of going anywhere or is this just members wanting to be on the record as the congressman said that we need to go big? i think it has as much chance of succeeding than going small.
editor at cq and leads their 2012 coverage. so we got great coverage here ourselves. give me a sense of how hispanics, their economic life is different, their vulnerability is different. their economic vulnerability is absolutely different. this is a community that has been hit in this recession unlike any other community we have seen. most of it has been because a majority of latinos, big communities live in nevada, florida, and california. three states that have seen the mortgage crisis the worst in this country. so the value of their prime property, their house, has dropped. exactly, and for latinos, as you know, chris, their home has been the biggest definition of the american dream in this country. and some of them overreached. well, yes. we can talk for hours as to what the cause was, but then that goes to the politics of it, right? you always vote your pocketbook,
have more hair in as little as four weeks. hair club, america s hair loss experts since 1976. call now for your free info kit and free hair analysis. welcome back to hardball. we learned today, a lot of people knew it earlier, the hispanic community, a key voting block for president obama in 2008 has been hit the hardest. from 2005 to 2009, you re looking at the chart, the median net worth, net worth of hispanic households dropped 66%. a two-thirds drop in their worth. a net worth of black households dropped more than half, 53%, almost as badly. and white house holds dropped 16%. how will this economic hit affect the hispanic vote come 2012? maria cordonez and christina belantoni is assistant politics editor at cq and leads their