a person found people like ferris buehler, who can adjust to any social relationship, have better relationships in college and in the workforce and end up making 2% more money. now you know. brian, mr. popularity? in many ways mitt romney succeeded last night by shifting the debate to one issue that americans care most about. in order to be able to fulfill our role in the world, america must be strong. america must lead. and for that to happen we have to strengthen our economy here at home. you can t have 23 million people struggling to get a job. you can t have an economy that over the last three years keeps slowing down it s growth rate. you can t have kids coming out of college, half of whom can t find a job today or a job that s commensurate with their college degree. we have to get our economy going. but a new report on local housing markets claims that 65% of people are worse off today than they were four years ago. stuart varney is here with all
that guy shot that guy. gretchen: so why? i think he was trying not to get enmeshed in that and he felt in the first half hour he was playying preventt defense and is what teams do when they are ahead in the fourth quarter and they give up s touchdown when they do that. and he was much too passive. but he recovered and on the whole he did well in the debate. first half hour i was unimpressed. i said this is going to be a long night. gretchen: if you were on the strategy team. at what point do you make the decision not to attack. i think he got lost in the weeds last time. the main goal of romney in this debate other than to move
female vote. laura ingraham is going to weigh in. and bill o reilly made this prediction. the debate is vital for both candidates. governor romney has momentum almost everywhere and he if he wins tonight he is likely to be the next president of the united states. brian: fox and friends starts now. two weeks from today. gretchen: final one. we ll analyze that with laura ingraham and bill o reilly. you are looking live at big rig pile-up in california. ten trucks collided in a tunnel. rescue crews are working to free one of drivers. around 400 gallons of diesel
night? those still undecided. frank luntz watched it with them and got their immediate reaction. florida is ground zero for politics in 2012 and we have 27 floating swing voters. tell us what you thought of mitt romney s performance. very well rehearsed and clueless. business-like, as always. presidential and on the mark. his foreign policies were indistinguishable from the previous policies. business minded. too much of a canned response to matter of fact. better than i expected. so you guys felt that let me ask you. this is supposed to be a foreign policy debate. when mitt romney, when he brought it back to economic and business issues, did he do well in that part of the debate? yes. tell me why. he was on the money. i mean, he knows that we need jobs. the healthcare. we have so many people on food stamps. people are losing their homes. you know, he was on the money. that wasn t what the debate was about. he was taking it back to what he
and take advantage of the opportunity there and stemmed tide of this violence. when it comes to the timing. president obama got 30 second and three debates it was more times but not the three minutes more. quite surprising, libya was not more of a topic of discussion and quickly to evolved to an debate about al-qaida. republicans were taken aback. why didn t romney go on the time line and why al-qaida is gaining strengthment the romney campaign told me libya is an important issue it is not the issue that is moving voterss and why you re going to hear the candidates talking relentlessly on the question. governor rum rhumb heading to