states. hello, alip looking at seven battleground states and how the rate compares today with when he took office. nevada and florida, unemployment rate is higher than the national average. nevada and colorado the rate is above what it was when president obama stepped into the white house. rest of the battleground states it s interesting. the jobs marks are improving. they had been improving since when the president president went into office, still improving, iowa, new hampshire, low unemployment levels. 5% in iowa. new hampshire, 5%. virginia, 5.6%. in ohio, with 18 electoral votes, much more than iowa and virginia combined, you ve seen a significant drop in the unemployment rate from 8.6% to 7.4% over the year. they went from 48th in the nation to higher than that. it s an interesting story, ohio, big auto manufacturing, big manufacturing base, and this is one of those places where mitt romney had said, don t have that auto bailout. my feeling is nobody wins without