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candidate. now some elements have turned against him. if you read what mitt romney says, follow mitt romney s vision, i think he is clearly a conservative candidate in the race, and i i don t understand why erick erickson would go out and say romney is not capable of winning a race. no president has gotten re-elected with an unemployment race above 7.4%. what is an issue that romney will not bend in order to win? name one, steve. you know he won t change. i think i think that i think that these were issues for mitt romney in the senate race, in the presidential race last time. and at the end of the day, he will have to deal with it. it s a criticism. john kerry had to deal with it. you have to deal with it now, you, sir, my colleague, name one issue which mitt romney will not bend on in order to win the presidency? i m not i m not a spokesperson. i m not a spokesperson for mitt
race. i think the comments are unfair to romney. remembering the mccain campaign. you have all of these quote-unquote conservatives cheering for romney during the entire duration of the primary. he was the conservative candidate. now some elements have turned against him. if you read what mitt romney says, follow mitt romney s vision, i think he is clearly a conservative candidate in the race, and i i don t understand why erick erickson would go out and say romney is not capable of winning a race. no president has gotten re-elected with an unemployment race above 7.4%. what is an issue that romney will not bend in order to win? name one, steve. you know he won t change. i think i think that i think that these were issues for mitt romney in the senate race, in the presidential race last time. and at the end of the day, he will have to deal with it. it s a criticism.
of july. unemployment rate was lowered to 4 and a half year low to 7.4%. my first guest says those numbers just don t add up. the government figures don t really reveal the full truth about the job situation in america. joining me is the former head of the bureau of labor statistics, keith hall. keith, it s great to have you here today. [applause] good to be with you. well, friday, we got those new numbers. 7.6 to 7.4. what s not to love, keith? well, first of all, that unemployment rate is the most closely watched economic statistic there is. and, unfortunately, that s gotten to a very flawed statistic. the reason is to be included as in the unemployment race, you need fullback completely jobless, no job of any sort, no pay. and, second, you have to be active. you have to be doing certain things to be considered unemployed as oppose god just jobless. in particularly, particularly you need to be conducting interviews.
the unemployment race is over 8%. they believe this shouldn t be a close election. this should be reagan and carter in 1980. if you look at the fundamental models for presidential elections, they say, yeah, the fundamentals are bad enough for obama right now that he s vulnerable and could lose the election. the economy is growing enough he s a slight favorite to win re-election. it s that s hard to believe when you see unemployment this high, but it s growing enough. this is a guy who is vulnerable, but it s not automatic. i think they bought into some of their own rhetoric about how awful and inept the president was. we have rachel smolken joins us now. the president is wrapping up the event with facebook. this is what he said a few minutes ago. even in that first year, one of my first acts was to invite every single member of congress who had previously been supportive of comprehensive