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house? outfront tonight, maegan carberry, former communications director of rock the vote. alice stewart is a republican strategist. and michelle goldberg is a senior writer for newsweek and the daily beast. let s start with you. what s your sense of how much of this is coincidence with president obama being president and how much of it he s able to take credit for? i m sure he can take credit for a lot of it. but what s really important is that voters don t hang on every single number that comes out. it s going to be a sense of what they feel, as we get closer to the election. and the fact is that president obama is not just running an economic race against mitt romney. he is running against himself in 2008, which was such a national moment, and he s really got to show people, you know, how we re where we go from here. how do we pick up from that moment. but, alice, not just romney s campaign, but the republican campaign for so long has been about a failed ec ....
house? outfront tonight, maegan carberry, former communications director of rock the vote. alice stewart is a republican strategist. and michelle goldberg is a senior writer for newsweek and the daily beast. let s start with you. what s your sense of how much of this is coincidence with president obama being president and how much of it he s able to take credit for? i m sure he can take credit for a lot of it. but what s really important is that voters don t hang on every single number that comes out. it s going to be a sense of what they feel, as we get closer to the election. and the fact is that president obama is not just running an economic race against mitt romney. he is running against himself in 2008, which was such a national moment, and he s really got to show people, you know, how we re where we go from here. how do we pick up from that moment. but, alice, not just romney s campaign, but the republican campaign for so long has been about a failed ec ....
consumer-driven economy like that of the united states, how people feel is the key determina determinant. the number you ll tell our viewers about shortly is consumer sentiment, how do you feel about the economy now, how do you feel about it in the future, and this number is as strong as it s been since october of 2007. i want to take you back to october of 2007 and tell you what was going on. dow was at 14,000. it had set a new record. we had just started to see weakness on the housing front. but things were still feeling pretty good. it was only after that, only after october into december of 2007 when the recession started did people start to say, uh-oh, something is wrong with this economy. remember, john, it s when people, americans, consumers start to feel something is wrong, they start to act that way, they spend less, and this starts to create job losses. so this is very key that we re back up to where we were in october 2007 when things felt pretty good. it s ....