. >> a galup poll, i want will to weigh in. it shows we're at highest level since late may. confidence, you know, just two weeks and change ahead of an election is now at the highest since may and it's largely driven, gallup said, by democrats and independents. independents are feeling better about the economy. so is that good news for the president? >> you would have to think that's good news for the president but how revealing is it. as i said earlier, we're going to have recovery. we've recovered from every recession. confidence is going to come back. the question is from a political perspective, did you aid it or inhibit? >> this chart could be in the president's favor, individual investors, of course, are pulling out of the market. wall street is going strongly for romney. does the strong performance in stocks help the president, or is it not connected to main street enough? >> oh, i think it definitely helps him. if you line up the polls in the stock market, it's remarkably similar. people are very much affected by it. >> one other chart that's really interested here.

then we've got the galup poll that gave governor romney a seven-point lead nationwide. very different than the rest of the poll bus it's gallup so it's raising a lot of eyebrows and drawing a lot of attention. >>> new this morning, the commander of u.s. forces in japan has imposed a curfew on all u.s. military personnel following the suspected rape of a japanese woman in okinawa. two u.s. servicemen arrested wednesday following the alleged incident and they are right now being held until their trial. that curfew orders all troops and u.s. civilians working on japan to be on base or at their private home from 11:00 at night to 5:00 in the morning. the military also ordering disciplinary restraining to all u.s. personnel in japan -- that's retraining, i should say, in japan. >>> 5:44. officials with the u.s. state department meeting with diplomats from bangladesh to try to learn more about a man who attempted to blow up the federal reserve bank in new york. that meeting is schedule for tomorrow in washington. the 21-year-old from bangladesh was arrested on wednesday in an