but trending down, hence that arrow pointing down in red. one interesting point i find, with more than 10 million followers, president obama trails by almost 25 points in the ranking right now, but his followers are more focused and consistent, says klout. when we reported on this two weeks ago, as you talked about, cain was the big social media mover then and that hasn t changed. thank you. that s fascinatiing stuff. but there s still a lot of traditional media. we re ten weeks if the first blots being cast in the 2012 race. republicans are gearing up today for an ad blitz in those early voting states. remember these? these are some of our favorites from 2008. it s 3:00 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep. but there s a phone in the white house and it s ringing. something s happening in the world. he s the biggest celebrity in the world, but is he ready to lead? i m not a witch.
refinance, cause their houses are underwater? exactly. the markets are highly volatile right now and trending down, because they are primarily concerned about debt. not the economic stimulus that a lot of us think is necessary to create jobs and to get things moving again. and the biggest debt, the european debt problem, there s a federal government debt problem and states are in terrible shape in terms of their debt. and mostly on the pension side, but the middle class is upside down on their mortgages and you re not going to stimulate demand until that problem is solved. the 50% of our workers families in this country, 50% of them from paycheck to paycheck, many of them are home owners and they lost $50,000. 75,000 in home equity and they had borrowed against that, they re not going to start consuming again. we need mortgage relief for the middle class. and principal relief for the
he has got to come to the republican table if, indeed, he wants to turn the economy around. as long as he keeps on talking about raising taxes, the economy s not going to turn, and he ll be a one-termer. megyn: you know, the interesting thing in these poll numbers is even though ray began was down at this point in his reagan was down at this point in his presidency and barack obama is down at this point in his presidency, ronald reagan and bill clinton were trending upward, so things were already starting to look better for them at this point. with barack obama it s the opposite, he s been trending down, or at best he s been trending flat. and the experts are saying that s what the white house needs to be worried about. do you think that that could be what is behind the proposal of another stimulus plan and a deficit reduction plan that the political pundits are saying have no chance of passing? it s about, you know, joining up support for policy you say what you want about bill
he s running for reelection. he s sago owe i m saying he s got a lot of explaining to do about the economy if that s what he s out talking about. i don t think the folks in iowa are going to be real excited about unemployment rate where it is and the number of americans who are out of work. this president has been an ab jekt failure when it comes to the economy. republican candidate michele bachmann s bus will be in dpreenville and spartanburg, south carolina, today. today is the national day of action. latino groups will protest the immigration policies. he s been criticized for the number of undocumented immigrants 1:30 eastern in boston. 2:00 eastern in charlotte and 3:00 eastern in miami. now on to san francisco. bart says the trains are running on normal schedules again. transit officials closed and reopened several downtown stations yesterday to keep protests from getting out of hand. protestors are calling attention to several shootings involving bart polic
markets. we re not seeing that right now. we re seeing essentially the u.s. debt still considered a safe haven status. the reason why it matters to the folks out there is that all of our borrowing rates, like mortgages and credit cards, are a peg to the u.s. treasury note of ten years. that s been trending down, he is close to 2.6 after dropping to 2.6 on friday in trading. we re watching that action very closely. we re waiting to see what the estimates could be. we re hearing anywhere from a half point higher to as much as a full percentage point higher. but again, the treasury note is still at historic lows. back to you. rick: i was reading that this could affect people when they go to borrow money. they go to borrow money for a car or for college. how quickly until the sort of ripple effects start to have an effect on people s pocketbooks? it could happen pretty quickly if the markets are convinced that s & p is going to