go to our distinguished pollster john mclaughlin. pollsters sponsored by mainstream media organizations, okay? "wall street journal," nbc, cbs "new york times," abc-"washington post," can they jimmy these polls particularly in battle ground states so they're weighted too heavily for democrats and it looks like romney is getting clobbered in the battle ground? >> absolutely. what they did is, the democrats, david axelrod was caught lobbying them. instead of using voter lists of people they know -- i'm a statistician. i got an mba in quantitative statistics. they're going to the phone exchanges, over 300 million and calling them diluting the republican numbers. so in these key states, florida, this 36% republican registration, they have under 30% in the polls. virginia they average about mid 30s for the republicans. again it's in the mid 20s in these polls. and the same thing you're seeing in ohio. ohio they have polling less than 30% republican. we haven't seen it that low since before the civil war. >> all right. >> so it's their sam

i just saw a poll that was taken in pennsylvania, by a polling firm i trust, john mclaughlin that shows that romney is defeating obama in pennsylvania by 49-forty46. smith's running very close to casey for the senate. ryan needs to keep that momentum up approximate this election could be over. i think the big thing is the contrast between the politician and a policy person. a young person and an old person. i think on both scores, ryan will really help romney. we have to realize how much of obama's appeal is generational. when you you are putting on a v.p. debate with a 25 or 25-year, i guess, difference in age, and one who is kind of a haggard regular old-time bomb baftic politician, and the other, a very incisive, sharp, focused policy person, i think that you really are going to see ryan have a tremendous edge. the other thing is that ryan wrote the romney program. this is not just a candidate for v.p., his the intellectual leader of the republican party today. for him to be up there debating in a political debate is like, you know, it's like mickey mantle coming to bat because he --

i went to ohio, michigan and florida and john mclaughlin helped me. in the last state, there was one more democrat than republican that voted in the exit polls, but the 13 polls in those states have a combined bias of 8 points per democrat. so they're 5 or 6 too much per obottom a. so i believe, like here in virginia, where romney is tide or behind, i think he was significantly ahead. now i think he's very far ahead. ohio, which they had romney behind was a tossup. now i think he will be ahead. i have said from the beginning, greta, nobody else has said it. i have always thought this election would be a solid romney victory on the order of obama's defeat of mccain, a near land slide. >> greta: tomorrow morning in morning, the jobs report comes out, on the serious side, so many americans are without work. that's enormously distressing. there is a political part of that. if that number stays the same as the national average or gets worse, is that going to have any appreciable effect, do you think, on the campaign for the president? >> well, i think tell