focus not as much on jobs as perhaps social issues. one of the host groups is into the more cultural issues than fiscal ones. heather: don t need labor day for that to be top of the agenda. carl cameron, thanks. gregg: perhaps the real battle here and the fight for the republican nomination would be perry vs. romney, if you look at the polls. joining us from washington to talk about that david drugger, good to see you. let s put it up on the screen the latest fox news poll just came out. perry has jumped to a 7 point lead, 26% to romney s 18%. it is early and there s still four more months before the first primaries and caucuses. david, would you give perry the edge right now and why? i give perry the slight
will be watching him very closely and say yeah, that s why i do like him or oh, my gosh, maybe he isn t who i thought he was. perry vs. romney, head to head thing was just with the republican voters and then with the president vs. mitt romney, they tie because they included all voters. and mr. romney does better with independents than mr. perry does at this point. that could be very important. as could women in 2012 and women, that is where the president is also struggling. that number, 41% approval rating by women, down 11% in just three months. that s very obviously key number. that s the lowest it s been for him. that is the lowest and why? well, the purse strings. obviously, the women are the ones who have the checkbooks saying we don t have money, we don t have jobs and we re not happy. yep, that will be an important voting block for the president to try to get that back. if he wants to get re-elected. let s talk about a story we told
happening this hour, another round in the battle over california s same sex marriage ban. governor arnold schwarzenegger says the state should allow gay weddings again now that a judge has overturned the law. claudia cowan live in san francisco. claudia, that ruling is still on hold for now from the judge, right? that s right, but a lot of legal motions were filed just within the last couple of hours. california governor arnold schwarzenegger and attorney general jerry browne filing motions calling for same sex weddings to resume just as soon as possible and it s a bit ironic when you think about it because the name of this case is perry vs. schwarzenegger and here we have the governor now clearly siding with the plaintiffs in this case. schwarzenegger said that resuming gay marriages here in california is consistent with