good morning i m martha maccallum. mitt romney ahead of the president but wiping out the double digit lead with women voters. you remember what that used to be. bill: republican nominee continues to press on this issue, that s the economy. can we afford four more years like the last four years? he wants another stimulus. how did that first one work out? and then, he wants to pick winners and losers among companies, or losers in his case and then, of course he wants to hire more government workers. look, all of these things have not ignited our economy the way it should be ignited. we ve seen the slowest recovery from a recession. bill: john roberts traveling with the campaign. live in vanmeter, iowa, that is west of des moines. what is happening there, john? reporter: good morning. governor romney will be talking agriculture today. not surprisingly we re on a 700 acre farm owned by the cook family. a lot of soybeans and corn here. we re in madison county. governor romney
0 brian: i ll buy one. gretchen: you wore yellow because you steal my pen. brian: steve wants to go contrast. if you have some time, i ll see you on the five later today. steve: larry sabato joins us tomorrow when we hope you do, too. see you then. bill: raucous crowd there this morning. fox news alert a surge in the polling puttings mitt romney on top in the race for the white house. pew research poll ing shows since the debate last week, mitt romney leaping ahead of president obama. what a swing that is, 49-45%. keep in mind that is likely voters too. you have to ask a few more questions to figure out whether you re registered voter or likely voter. likely voter polls are more accurate in the end. look who is back here. martha: hello, everybody. bill: celebrating columbus day. martha: i always do. thank goodness he discovered the country. good morning i m martha maccallum. mitt romney ahead of the president but wiping out the double digit lead with women voters. you rememb