stuart: seen him lose his temper? stuart: yes. stuart: when bang his fist on the table? would talk to your face and explain his point of view and why he thought you weren't thinking of something the right way. stuart: forgive me for asking a personal question. he loses his temper. would you? >> he lost his temper with me over politics at times. stuart: i use some kind of liberal? >> we definitely see things differently and i am not a liberal. stuart: get right in your face? >> he is not like that but he is a passionate guy. what i see on some tv sometimes is he tries to rein that in. if you are in private one on one he is not afraid to let that come forward and say i feel strongly about this. stuart: does he have the kind of personality where he could reach out and attack, go after the president? not harshly but vigorously? >> i have seen him do it to me. his nature is to focus on the fact, the analysis, the truth. it doesn't play well for the kind of thing you are describing. stuart: reading between the lines. he is a nice guy. too nice. >> you are saying that. i am not

stuart: all right. saw the ad running in florida and joining us now is rabbi, welcome to the program. >> good to be here. stuart: 78% of the jewish vote went to obama in '08. what proportion will go to president obama now? >> you think i have a crystal ball. one thing i can accurately predict, it will go down. stuart: how much? you've have to give a pro dix. >> the most dire predictions down to 60. stuart: that's dire? >> that's a big shift. about 25% of the past support eroding, do i think it's possible? i think it's possible. do i think it's likely? i don't think it's terribly like i for one reason. whether it is or should be or not. for most american jewish voters, israel is not a huge priority. i may bemoan that. stuart: some say it is a priority and link with israel and america's support to israel is crucial for that vote. >> i think it should be more. i think that's number's going down and i think the ways in which the president can hold on to some jewish support is that the link to israel is cruc

stuart: it is? >> yes, absolutely. stuart: don't people get sick and tired of it?t. >> do you tweet? stuart: no. >> people love that kind of stuff. stuart: do you think our viewers are dying to get a tweet from me? >> absolutely. charles, help me out here. of course they are. charles: your viewers would love to get tweets from you. >> of course they would. you're famous, a celebrity. stuart: they just told me that we do tweet. [laughter] charles: listen, how about this idea, last week during the convention, republican convention, romney's name was appearing more in the blogosphere and the twitter universe. goes back to the old saying that any news is good news as long as your name is being mentioned. >> charles is right. he was front and center on twitter too. i think yes the message is as long as you are tweeting and saying something positive about yourself, you're in good shape on twitter. stuart: isn't this is a boon for facebook and twitter, the companys? >> sure, it makes them seem more important and more volume. stuart: do you see that at the bottom of the sc

stuart? stuart: thank you very much.overnment is using our taxpayer money to buy foreign made wheelchair accessible vans. that was supposed to end once a u.s. company started to make those same vans here. well, a company called the vehicle production group has been doing that for a year. joining us now is our next guest who is running that company. fred, why is it that somebody else who makes these vans overseas gets government money? you make these vans in the united states, why don't you get the money? >> well, when chrysler pulled the manufacturing out of the u.s., there was no american manufacturer making these vehicles. so they asked the federal transportation administration for an exemption which was appropriate because there was no american manufacturer. we manufacture our vehicles in indiana. 75% american content and we have asked that waiver to be withdrawn. actually the waiver said until there was an american product available, it stayed in force. so by its own terms, it should be over. stuart: why are they dra

stuart: okay.uch it is a weak candidate, poor campaign, versus the opposition of the establishment of media. >> the media wasn't on ronald reagan's side. you have to find a way around it. you can't just keep on blaming the the media for where you're at. you have to find ways above it and around it. if youre really a strong candidate, you can in fact do that. ronald reagan never had the media on his side. he didn't have the hierarchy of the republican party on his side. but he was able to do it because he ran a ground-up campaign, not a top-down campaign. i think the romney campaign is running a top-down. a rockefeller republican type of campaign which is not a winnable campaign instead of a ground-up campaign and moving forward. grassroots elected ronald reagan. stuart: came in the northeast, very sensitive to the whole expression rockefeller republican. mike reagan, always great to see you. thank you. >> thank you. stuart: my take is next. [ male announcer ] at humana, we believe there's never bee

stuart: thank you, kelly jane, we'll see you. >> thanks, stuart. stuart: 9:29. almost 9:50.gold report says this, 1769, little changed, but we're still up there way into the 1700 level per ounce. the obamacare propaganda machine is go to go into high gear and the message will be told by, drum roll, popular shows like grey's anatomy, they have been asked to include story lines about the health care law, obamacare. and they're going to pay hollywood people to love obama? don't they do that naturally? what do sandra smith and charles payne think about that? they are on the war, here they come. ♪ [ male announcer ] let's say you need to take care of legal matters. wouldn't it be nice if there was an easier, less-expensive option than using a traditional lawyer? well, legalzoom came up with a better way. we took the best of the old and combined it with modern technology. together you get quality services on your terms, with total customer support. legalzoom documents have been accepted in all 50 states, and they're backed by a 100% satisfaction guarantee. so go to legalzoom.com t

stuart: see you again soon. to new polls for president obama has a big lead in the female vote over mitt romney. in ohio the president leads romney 60-35 among women. now obama deputy campaign manager says women don't care about the president's record. listen to this. >> they're not really concerned about what is happening over the last four years. stuart: congresswoman joins us now. it is very hard to get around or explain the enormous lead president obama seems to have among women voters. i put it to you they're going to be president because they're getting bought on that issue. tell me i am wrong. >> i do think you're a little bit wrong on this one. so many women are still undecided in this election, and the issue is jobs and the economy are the number one issue. when i'm around the country talking with women, what i hear from them is their concern about the out-of-control federal spending, concerned about jobs and the economy, those are the top issues with women and i have to tell you, i would take them to t

stuart: thanks, nicole.e'll see you. 2:30 eastern to be resize, google's motorola division set to release a new smart phone, new razr, google stock barely changed on that and apple announces an event one week from today. sure looks like the big reveal for the iphone 5. apple's stock this morning is ever so slightly lower, barely changed i'll call it. news on the smart phone upfront this morning, let's look at fedex. those shares have started trading and have a grim outlook and where are they now, nicole. >> we see it down 1 1/2% and ups is down 1 1/2% as well and a couple things to note. they're warning and obviously, their earnings forecast now not good. and pace of china recovery is slower than stated and bernstein noted a tough global economy and news flash, but you know, they are huge economic indicator and doing it the first time since 2009, and having the earnings is a big deal. >> yeah, keep going back to 2009 an interesting comparison, thanks, nicole. give me every indicator, and now, it looks like i

stuart: right.uprising in america right now and it is against the public sector bureaucracy. unfortunately public sector unions have become a problem. they are part of the problem, not the solution. you have to go back to the 1950s to get this kind of movie. stuart: let's go back there, should we? nothing wrong with that. one last word on california that will set up a pension fund and force private employers to pay into it. liz: guaranteed pension that private companies are going to have to launch in the state of california. they are also going to be fined 750 bucks per worker per -- you know. here's the issue, if taxes and government regulations the way to go, why was california's unemployment jobless rate nearing 12%? i don't understand that. david: by the way now the chicago symphony is also on strike. gas prices 4.80 a gallon for regular. stuart: that's what he told us. we're out of time unfortunately but there's always time for cheryl who is going to take

stuart: i don't get it.greg, always a pleasure, i'm sure many times in the next 41, 43 days, what is it. >> looking forward to it. stuart: see you later. check the price of oil, please because we've got movement there. a barrel of crude is down to $90, 90.28. down a buck and oil is at or near the lowest level in seven weeks, watch out for the ill 0 inventory numbers, sounds technical. a very good economic indicate her coming up at 10:30. are we use ago lot of oil, a little oil, are we a fast or slow economy? we'll find out at 10:30. traders have their eyes on the middle east. iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad will address the united nations on yam kippur. and call for a new world order and israel, too. and here is president obama's response to this. >> make no mistake, pa nuclear armed iran is not a challenge that can be contained, threaten the elimination of israel, the security of gulf nations and the security of global economy and that's why the united states must do what we must to prevent iran from o

stuart: not one single dime. >> except for this. stuart: $1,200 a year.16, six million will pay it. $1,200 a year. >> the mandate itself is somewhat of a tax. this is something you mandated to pay. not only is the penalty a tax cut that you are required to pay for something the entire act is a way to raise what people are paying. stuart: isn't it the irs that is going to check up to see if you have -- charles: an army of irs agents hired. that is outrageous because it focuses on taxes the thirty million people who aren't going to be paying who picks up for them? who picks up for the illegal aliens and indian tribes? twelve million people will get hardship waivers. what is the requirement for that? you dig deeper into this thing and it is going to be falling on the shoulders of so few people. stuart: twelve million people get a waiver. charles: there will be thirty million without any insurance who don't have to pay the penalty/tax and according to the cbo report a i read through a few times there will be all kinds of waivers, hard ship waivers and things

stuart: go.ink that's reflected in the consumer confidence numbers that came out today, too, i think that people are hearing that the country is doing great and start to say, okay, maybe it is. they don't know and-- >> people are capable of holding deeply conflicting opinions at the same time and consumer confidence may be up mildly, but the polls show that two-thirds of the people think that president obama's policies have not helped the economy, have hurt it and so many people think we're in a recession. stuart: true state of public opinion right now. >> i'd have to say dead heat. look at this, on the 10th of september, gallup 50-44. yesterday 47-46. rasmussen on 10th of september before the libyan comment and 47%, 48-45 obama. yesterday 45 obama-47 romney. stuart: karl rove, the architect, preferred-- >> anytime you say that, the american institute of art sends me an angry letter and professional credentials. stuart: karl, thank you. we knew it would happen only a matter of time. the nfl repla

stuart: more of the same.esident clinton called for president obama need four more years to finish the job. if we gave the president four more years and he put in place the policies he says he is going to put in place what whave a robust dynamic return to prosperity. >> i don't see how that is possible. the characteristic of obama's policies is massive national debt. the history that countries burdened with this debt do not grow rapidly and face prospect of a financial crisis. his solution is higher marginal tax rates which are exceedingly detrimental to economic growth and i think that policy is toxic for economic growth. we have to take a different tack and follow the lesson of his own fiscal commission of lower marginal rates and broaden the base and have entitlement reform to control the debt and grow more rapidly. stuart: i said you keep developing or growing the debt like this the way we are and sooner or later we go bankrupt. that is a very harsh and perhaps overly harsh word to use but you get the poin

stuart: interesting.to sum it all up. [ owner ] i need to expand to meet the needs of my growing business. but how am i going to fund it? and i have to find a way to manage my cash flow better. [ female announcer ] our wells fargo bankers are here to listen, offer guidance and provide you with options tailored to your business. we've loaned more money to small businesses than any other bank for ten years running. so come talk to us to see how we can help. wells fargo. together we'll go far. stuart: as promised a big highlight reel. >> 360,000 americans just dropped out of the workforce. they just gave up hope. he says it is a signal that the economy continues to recover. ronald reagan did recover from a recession which in many ways was worse. charles: if you're walking down the street and you have a penny in your pocket and you find another one, it doubled. >> is that really a success? stuart: do not forget, charles, please, this is evidence that the economy continues to recover. [laughter] that was good.

stuart: okay.eject completely. >> i like some of the social issues stands president obama has taken. this is a great example of his lack of leadership. he is from chicago. arne duncan used to run the chicago public schools. they haven't commented at all on this case. where is the leadership. he is not a leader. stuart: do you think there's any hope whatsoever of true reform in public school system? if so how are we going to get there? >> i think so. we have to break the unions. we have to break the death grip these unions have on the school system. the kids are the ones who are suffering. not the teachers. average family in chicago earning $7,000 a year and average teacher making $76,000 before benefits. stuart: sitting with tracy byrnes, former school teacher nodding her head vigorously. that is a strong expression. break the unions. tracy: they're asking for raises you and i haven't seen in years. and some ladies saying -- parents have to bring their kids to school. there are ripple effects to th

stuart: tell me. >> 25 seconds. stuart: that's it?t for the networks on discussion of the obama doctrine. stuart: okay. always a pleasure, we thank you very much again for appearing with us today. >> thanks, my pleasure. stuart: it's 9:50 precisely and this time every day we bring you the price of gold and new graphics to display the price of gold this morning, much clearer, i think. 1773 is your number as of now. and the occupy movement turns one year old today and they are celebrating with a day of protests. they're up and at em. sandra smith and david asman are always up and ready to go and early. they join us in a moment. now listen to the beatles, please, the greatest band ever. ♪ >> today is the one year anniversary of occupy wall street. right now, demonstrators will attempt to shut down wall street today. and they hope to form a human wall and block traders from getting to the stock exchange. and nicole is listening to this and she will chime in in a second and first of all, your thoughts, sandra smith? >> as you've seen the v

>> oh, a lot, stuart.ve from the moss coney center, and 5,000 people will descend and talking about invasion, here at intel they will be unveiling brand new semiconductor chips that really help a lot of other companies build their own hardware up and through it. and everything from smart phones to tablets to of course, ultra books which are supposed to be the next big thing according to the ceo of intel, paul otellini, who runs this and the largest semiconductor company. 3 p.m. eastern, paul otellini joining us in an exclusive on fox business. and hundreds and hundreds of media descend on the forum, hewlett-packard to the other hardware makers, acer, you name it, dell, they want to hear what he has to say and he's exclusively coming on fox business, but of course, three days in the valley a bunch of other ceo's and valleys coming here at the developers forum including tim westgrin of pandora and they're big in the news because last week, a rumor, and the library is a similar service, what does he have to s

archaeologist george stuart. stuart: this is a color facsimile of the dresden codex -- actual size, real colors. it's made on, like the others, on bark paper sized with lime plaster, on which the images were painted with fine hair brushes and pigment in about, oh, five or six different colors. keach: many of these books were discovered by the sixteenth century spanish. they were said to be filled with genealogies, prophesies and religious beliefs. but to the spanish conquerors, they were blasphemous. in 1562, bishop diego de landa ordered them destroyed. "we found a large number of books in these characters, "and as they contained nothing "in which there were not to be seen "superstition and lies of the devil, "we burned them all, "which caused them much affliction." ironically, a book by bishop landa himself proved crucial to the understanding of maya writing. stuart: and in it is everything that he observed in yucatan about the maya, about their ceremonial cycles, their ritual calendars. he even had pictures of

and the economy is improving but stuart varney is the host of "varney and company," says -- stuart: you you say the economy is improving that assumes there is a sense of direction the economy is going in the right direction. it is weakening. 4% growth at the end of last year. 2% in the first quarter this year 1.7% now. wrong direction. it is weakening. the debt, $15 trillion last year. $16 trillion now. is going up. gas $1.84. most americans pay $4. wrong direction. $54.9 a year, four years ago. was $4,000 less. wrong direction. you cannot say that the economy is improving. cheryl: we are better off than we were six months ago. look at the housing data. there is now more demand supply. [talking over each other] stuart: overall the economy is weakening. the direction is down. gas prices up. food prices up. everything going in the wrong direction. i grant you there's not one element. home prices have gone up 2% after falling 30%. the best you can say is bumping along the bottom. cheryl: we have a recession in the housing market. was depression. we have come out of that ad have people -- [

there are a few flubs that have been attributed to stuart.learned that the clint eastwood speech was green lit by him. and he apparently has a creative side. should he be blamed for that? >> he also worked on northern exposure, so we is very creative, but he has a great team around him. i read the criticism that he is a creative guy, and shouldn't be wearing three hats. well karl rove was a direct mail guy before he ran a campaign. stewart is not making the ads anymore. the notion that stepped in on a speech eight days ahead of time. hell, eight days is enough time to write war and peace. and for whatever reason he thought there was a problem and stepped in and redirected it. >> jennifer: all right. so let's put him aside for just a second. everybody is saying that the romney campaign is imploding. folks on the left and on the right. it's especially relevant to the folks on the right. do you think that the campaign is in meltdown? >> well, governor, i would rather be the obama team than romney's team at this point, and i think they have a lot

are they trying to push stuart out or get a message to stuart?nor romney likes his counsel. they are an odd couple. two distinctly different personals i. >> felix and oscar. >> worked harmoniously throughout the campaign. he's a lightning rod. he is a character. but a lot else in that campaign, so, there's infighting in a campaign. surprise. there's always infighting in a campaign. it comes out at times of stress and as versity and the romney campaign's about going through one. >> jackie, there are a couple of stuart sympathizers who will say to me, um, let's remember this guy guided the candidate through a republican primary process with a moderate mormon from massachusetts. and if somebody had told you that a moderate mormon from massachusetts could get the republican nomination in 2012, they would tell you you were smoking something. >> absolutely. that's why the talk, i can't imagine he would be let go now i mean, that was a process that, you know, built up confidence in mitt romney if he lacked any at the time. just, you know, they knew what

. >> >> stuart alexander president of the united states. fighting to abolish the irs. >> better than romney o or obama's? party crashers. and that is our show. john: a sporting events. two candidates competing there are other people in the ring they have better ideas that obama or mitt romney? why should we even care? they probably will not win. matt welch says we should care because, i will let them explain. declaration of independence sing it can fix what is wrong and also running the candidate for ralph nader and author of "grand illusion." >> the two parties ask stack the deck against independent candidates starting with the ballot to laws which is the number one problem. how do i get off the ballot? john: just give a bunch of signatures. >> tens of thousands are hundreds. >> you may have to get 2 million signatures to protect yourself from people who tried to knock you off the ballot who less you interrupt the predictable outcome. john: of the system was more open they would be better off? >> when the two parties alternate like endange

so they're faulting stuart stevens. if you read the piece, the truth is all of this reflikts mitt romn romney. this is his campaign. stuart stevens was his pick for the job so it is his campaign that he is managing. it is a structure that he set up and it was his decision to run cautiously. >> it feels as though, as we look just to the quote there, it said that what the campaign may need is a consultant from bain and company. sort of the irony of ironies that the national conversation over the past ten days or so has pivoted a little bit away from the economy, though not entirely, and towards foreign policy. this is an area where romney has had some recent stumbles looking back to that sort of tour around the time of the olympics, to last week's late night descriptor of the president's foreign policy on the day the ambassador was killedliby as disgraceful. not his strong suit, right? >> not his strong suit. and by his own admission not his strong suit. he picked a running mate whose expertise is not in foreign policy. i

. >> the chief strategies stuart stevens. >> cobbled together a speech from scratch. >> republicans are baffled. >> he doesn't seem to be good to me. >> so no changes in your campaign? >> no. >> this race would turn on the economy unless. >> foreign policy is front and center. >> things happen abroad. >> my foreign policy as it relates to the middle east is to stand firmly with our allies. >> i think it's a -- >> i think they're in trouble. >> he's got a problem. >> the candidate needs to take control. >> just 50 zas left until the election. >> 50 days to go. >> he has seven weeks to get things right. >> i actually think this is the week that mitt romney cooked his goose as far as winning the presidency of the united states. i do. >> there are exactly 50 days until the presidential election and the wheels are coming off the campaign with reports of disastrous decision making and dissension among the campaign staff. tonight the romney campaign is reeling from the leak of a secretly recorded video of mitt romney speaking all too candidly at a campaign fund raiser where he managed to insul

[laughter] stuart: follow that dagen and connell. dagen: you have been planning that for probably two years, i know you. you looked good at the golf tournament. stuart: i think my wife looked better. connell: we can all agree on that. thank you. good morning i'm connell mcshane. dagen: i'm dagen mcdowell. where is the miscommunication, romney's strength as a businessman but he's not connecting with voters when it comes to the economy. connell: we will talk about that. then the secretary of state takes on the global elite. clinton says the rich around the world not just here should pay higher taxes. dagen: the co founder of one of america's greatest companies now wants to become a citizen in another country. connell: top of the hour, stocks now and every 15 minutes beginning with nicole pet petallides -- nicole petallides, let's talk about facebook. nicole: over the weekend with facebook on the cover of barron's, with the down arrow, right? $15, certainly just saying it was still too pricy at the current levels, the stock sold off. he

stuart dies investigates the world's most diverse ecosystem -- tropical rainforests. through a worldwide tree census, he hopes to discover how such a wide range of species all competing for the same resources can cexist. in yellowstone national park, robert crabtree and his team of scientists seek to untangle the cascading effects in the ecosystem when the top predator -- the wolf -- is removed and years later returned to the park. by looking at the delicate balance between different species, both scientists hope to learn how to manage and preserve these ecosystems and others worldwide. in panama, on barro colorado island, an ecological preserve created through the making of the panama canal, stuart davies hopes to uncover some of the mysteries of a complex ecosystem -- the rainforest. man: i'm the director of the center for tropical forest science, which is a group who study the rainforests of the world. and we work together as one very large network to try to understand how rainforests function and how they're gonna change in the future. narrator: tropical rainfores

he hired stuart stevens.round, talked to ken mehlman and other folks before settling on stuart stevens. at the end of the day he picked stevens, stuck with stevens. best i can still very much believes in stuart stevens. this is the mitt romney campaign and i think this cautious approach, this refusal to really engage in this war of ideas that paul ryan and i think the conservatives enam mored with paul ryan want, it reflects mitt romney as much as it would reflect stuart stevens. until they resolve that and the candidates decides i want a war of ideas, fight about the partial privatization of medicare, talk with specificity about what the tax code will look like a year from now under mitt romney, until he makes that decision, it doesn't matter what the aides want to do. it's his campaign. it would be his presidency. >> and one of those top aides ed gillespie this morning seemed to be indicating there will be more speeches this week, more specificity on economic plans but not the big foreign policy critique th

i mean, stuart stevens in the role of bob shrum.ped into the kerry campaign and took it over. james carville, paul begala, joe lockhart, mike mccurry. and then right around this time, they decided that they had to refocus on the biggest issue of the year that kerry had been smudging, the war in iraq, gave his first really strong anti-iraq speech and he was still six points behind. he made it up in the first debate answered still lost. but we have been here before. we have seen this. >> but we have also seen this with winning campaigns. you can go through dukakis and kerry and mccain and find campaign discord in articles like this you can find campaign discord, clinton '92, obama 2008. you can find it in bush 2000 it is up to the candidate to rise above the stuff which exists in every campaign, stand for something and finish strong. >> that is a question. how much of this -- falls on romney? >> falls on romney. but the other difference is that unlike the kerry campaign in 2004, nothing's gonna happen this time. stuart stevens is gonn

we continue with dana perino and stuart varney.he president keeps telling us, we ought not offend the prophet muhammad. maybe he has a lecture for harry reid who said he's coming to a state where there's a lot of members of the latter-day saints, lds, that they understand he's not the face of mormonnism, said that he's sullied mormonnism. >> is there anything harry reid won't say? he said he hasn't paid taxes. now attacking his religion. >> it's been three weeks since there was a disgraceful comment by senator reid. we were due one. this happened to be very offensive. most of the media would say, that's exactly right. no one reports on harry reid's religion. >> bill: listen, i'm not allowed to bring up jeremiah wright. >> you're not? >> bill: no, i mean because -- he knew nothing about jeremiah wright's radical islam. nothing. >> where is the screaming headline about attacking governor romney's religion? you will not see it. >> bill: these guys go on -- their little buddies, go on "meet the press," all the sunday shows, and i watch

stuart: now here's dagen and connell. dagen: the government owns the mortgage market, still does, come on. stuart: can i have 10 minutes on your program? dagen: you know what? absolutely. connell: no. stuart, thank you very much. have a great day. i'm connell mcshane. dagen: i'm dagen mcdowell. connell: first there was romney caught on tape but now this old video surfaces of president obama. what it's all about. we will talk about it. is the role of government in the economy? will this be the issue that decides the election? dagen: the one and only review of the iphone 5 that you need to hear. mr. walt mossberg is here. he has it. you better not go anywhere. connell: yeah, or else. plus the cost of obesity. some frightening new numbers on just how much it costs to take care of the overweight. dagen: healthcare, you name it. top of the hour everybody, stocks now and every 15 minutes. nicole petallides at the new york stock exchange. nicole: all right, we are up about 10 points on the dow jones industrial average here this

stuart, have you seen anything? no, it seems like it's pretty quiet. >> good to know.and then, on your presentation you had mentioned there's a large variety of language, languages that your officers speak but there wasn't a number of how many officers speak the various languages. i don't know if you know off the top of the head how many are speaking officers you have? >> i do, nine officers who speak either cantonese or mandarin. >> do you find that to be enough or are you required additional language? >> we actually use the language yesterday. you know, we could always use more. i think we're pretty good for the city. because a lot of our officers do speak and two of our civilians, the p.s.a.'s, they speck cantonese also. >> that's good to know. those nine officers stay pretty busy. >> they're always asked to call for translation, that's why we've seen three requests today walking through the station. >> lastly i wanted to ask you about the public, private partnerships. you list a lot of organizations in this area and you said you meet with it regularly. is it one me

bill: stuart points out we have never been in this place before economically speaking. what could be a significant story over the coming months, early voting gets underway in a key battleground state, the state of iowa. six electoral votes at stake. voters can cast their ballots absentee or in person. governor romney visited the state six times in the past week. poured millions of television ads as the president's team. martha: there is early voting happening soon in virginia. we find that to be the center of the pitical universe for both of these campaigns. both are holding events. governor mitt romney attends a rally in springfield while president obama makes remarks today in virginia beach. 13 electoral votes in virginia up for grabs. president obama took that state, first time in a long time a democrat had done that. republicans trying to win it back on the road to 270. bill: watch virginia. we'll be there in couple weeks. talked about ohio yesterday. in the meantime we're just getting started. small business owners speaking out about their future and their plans. w