we can survive obama but not the people who vote for obama. talk about personal. andrea: talk about personal and not chris christie s underpants for once. next week, tampa, we ll all be there. juan, what can we expect? what does romney have to do? juan: he has to get more personal. he has to say to people, a plan, here is why it will work. one thing we saw in the poll today even though americans, there is a big jump, gap in terms of people approving or disapproving obama performance on the economy and right now, the majority disapprove. but then when you ask what about the future it s tied between obama and romney. if romney can say here is my plan what i ll do, he can get a boost. andrea: hes a stage with millions of people. this is the time to present himself. what do you think he needs to say to unite the party? eric: he is doing it now. picked the right guy for vice president. highlight paul ryan. stay on jobs. forget the other satellite stuff that the left wants to
stagnation in the economy. unemployment has not meaningful gone down. i understand the reason it s gown is more have less jobs created because it s not gro growing. a republican candidate has to articulate economic message that has a clearer alternative than the republicans. eric: the fox poll shows in the swing state that president obama is leading. down by five points. santorum down by 12. sally? look, the reality is nobody, the president, nobody, nobody is paying attention. this is a hardtime for everyone. the hope is hope for the future. that is what any candidate has to be running on. the bumper sticker slogan that the president should use is work with me. what is he is saying to the american people and the republican party is look, the next four years we have to
nomination. jon: the fox poll you just referred to people were asked who has the experience to be president, and mitt romney and newt gingrich come out very much essentially tied 59% romney, 58% for newt gingrich. rick perry down the list at 35, and herman cain at 31%. reporter: yeah, the newt gingrich, he s got dash tkaerb is a work ton insider, i know he s been pushing back against that label. he was speaker ever the house. he s been living in washington for a longtime. but the flip side of that is that people view him with experience. he s dealt with a lot of issues. in the debates he s been very good, and that has helped him rise from when his campaign imploded a few months ago everyone thought he was done, but the debates have really helped. he s very good at debating which rick perry is not. herman cain is good but he s had other issues. jon: voters were asked in the fox poll, if the 2012 vote for president were held today who
there is an interesting poll on what iowa voters are thinking. bob cusack is managing editor of the hill. the results of that iowa poll could not be so different from the fox poll we were talking about. reporter: it s good news and bad news for newt gingrich. the national polls look very good. he s getting a lot of media attention. the bad news, conservatives wary of him on some issues, immigration, his ooh sort port of a 2003 medicare bill, his lobbying work. that is the bad news. in iowa he s in single digits. you ve got to capture momentum early on. newt gingrich will have to do better there. the fox poll is very interesting it shows in a head-to-head match up with president obama he is within striking range. herman cain never really got win striking range versus he president obama. that is more good news for newt gingrich. who would have thought newt gingrich would have been in the position he is now. he has an uphill battle for the
election. how do you keep track of all this stuff? do you have a cheat cheat, write he it on your hand, flash cards, what do you do? reporter: the truth of the matter is, jenna nothing sufficess watching the polls as to listen to voters in iowa, and south carolina. we are already seeing a lot of questions and misgivings about herman cain and mitt romney and newt gingrich. all of this goes in cycles. the question is whether or not in another three and a half, hour weeks when we get into the real holiday season whether or not mitt romney is still in the mid 20s. anybody who crests that 20% mark is getting the kind of pounding that newt gingrich is seeing now. if they can sustain it maybe we ll get really action. jenna: very interesting stuff as always. carl cameron stphao. jon: the fox poll is a national poll. you ought to take a look at states like iowa.