says i don t even know what the number is. nobody gives him his turn in the barrel. bill: you and him and other deactors would say it has gone up $6 trillion under your watch. 5 trillion to be fair. bill: $16 now and 10.8. i want to be fair to him. bill: here we have the polling numbers seem to suggest that the president s gaining sfwround on mitt romney. you re reaching back into 1980 to tell us things were much different even late in october. back that up. mid-september of 1980 jimmy carter was ahead of ronald reagan 44-40. i was a young director of the texas campaign, historically democrat state. i was the executive director of texans for reagan-bush. when poll came out, double-digit inflation, double-digit unemployment. interest rates at 20%. how could we be losing to this guy. in october, third week of october and polls came out reagan dropped to 39 and