stuart varny will break down poll numbers and look at the financial situation, that's next. >> sean:ins in the polls against president obama, the left has continued to focus their attacks on governor romney's business career, especially his time at bain capital. but they don't seem to be taking hold with you, the voters. a national "usa today"/gallup poll suggests that romney's business background will help him with the economy and now with the results like that, team obama will have to reassess whether or not its bain cap tell here and campaign is actually working. we have stuart varny and melissa francis here. >> thank you for having me. >> sean: that to me is a very telling poll that did not get a lot of play in the news. what do you think? >> absolutely not. i think people are starting to realize an essential truth about private equity, if the company goes bankrupt, you lose your investment. he had to have made good decisions along the way to make hundreds of millions for himself it's straight forward. >> look, i think the president's tried to do two things and failed on both. he

we have stuart varny and melissa francis here. >> thank you for having me. >> sean: that to me is a veryoll that did not get a lot of play in the news. what do you think? >> absolutely not. i think people are starting to realize an essential truth about private equity, if the company goes bankrupt, you lose your investment. he had to have made good decisions along the way to make hundreds of millions for himself it's straight forward. >> look, i think the president's tried to do two things and failed on both. he's tried to divert attention from the lousy state of the economy and he's tried to characterize mitt romney as rich, bad, destructive, out of touch and eliteist. i think he failed the both and this economy is really in a tailspin going down, down, down. the economy's-- >>> you think we will hit another recession? you think it's double dip time? >> i did. in the next two weeks, we get terrible numbers on the economy. >> sean: define terrible. >> the growth rate in the economy is maybe 1, 1.2%. that's near flat on its back -- that's stall speed? >> the reagan recovery, they got up t