they want president obama or romney to deliver on the promis promises.we talk about the unemployment rate, 8.3%, it's very important. but the bottom line, this is going to come down to swing states. the unem plament rate when we get those numbers, what is it in ohio, nevada, florida because those are the key states that are going to decide who wins the election. >> in several states it is lower now than when the president took office. peter, mark, diane, thanks everybody. have a great weekend. >>> farmers in the heartland are waiting for rain. rain that won't come. i'll tell you how drought in the midwest will cost you no matter where you live. that's next. love them all. the seal i get with the super poligrip free keeps the seeds from getting up underneath. even well-fitting dentures let in food particles. super poligrip is zinc free. with just a few dabs, it's clinically proven to seal out more food particles so you're more comfortable and confident while you eat. a lot of things going on in my life and the last thing i want to be thinking about is my

i promis promised to shake it u. joining me now., what was the market impact be if there was relief of fdr? >> this is much more dangerous situation because what is keeping a little bit of a lid on the crude oil market is the fact that could do this kind of relief. you can wak wake up and see 24,8 hours situation which you saw crude oil down, but what is really scary is once the government makes that play, they're out of bullets and you can see crude oil pullback $5 rocket hire 10 or $15 more. from a trader's perspective it is important that you not release that petroleum reserve because that is the only thing keeping a lid on this market. cheryl: you have to think about the timing of all this and the timing of all this. we had a very short-term impact. the administration was criticized for that. >> not only will they be criticized so close to the election, but a really important for the energy policy because the romney campaign wondering why they did not open up big keystone pipeline and we would not be dealing with these issues ri

candidate obama was speaking in denver to the democratic convention, and he got up there and made a lot of promi promises and he did it in front of those greek columns. i don't think he'll be standing in front of greek columns at this year's convention. he won't want to remind people of greece because that's where he's taking our country if we don't get off the road we're on. >> with me now are two of the top analysts on msnbc, the huffington post's howard fineman and "time" magazine's mark halperin. let's get to the heart of this thing. i'm surprised because i thought romney had spine in picking ryan, the very act of doing so, because ryan has stuck his neck out on a very, very tough, perhaps draconian budget which includes cuts against groups that don't like to be cut, like seniors, and great advantages to people at the top, of course. but then again on sunday night out of nowhere on "60 minutes" he comes out and says, well, really i have my own plan. i'm not really with the ryan plan. does he already lose points? polling in the last 24 hours or 48 hours has shown a mixed reaction to romney pi

so today's presentation was to fulfill the promi of having a slightly better pictures.re than slightly better and we took some great images on the way down. >> it is tough to compete with these fantastic images, but i will report a snapshot of the first observations we have of the radiation internment on the surface of another planet, which is quite remarkable in itself. yesterday was the 100-year anniversary of the disco of lactic, cosmicayon eth bytor hesith his hot air balloon in eastern germany. exactly 100 years later, yesterday, we make the characterize it -- or characterize tst measurements theadiation spectrum t srfacof ma. the next slide is zooming in on the p decof the rover, showing where the window is. it points toward these the net so we characterize and measure charged particle radiation coming in from the atmosphere as well as neutral particle radiation, neutrons and gamma rays. we have learned a lot in the last 100 years. we know that the two types of radiation in space are driven in large part by the sun. they go with the solar cycle. it is a very inter