The gun has sounded for the home stretch to the mid terms. The Texas high school football star who is accused of turning into a drug cartel kingpin who authorities say is implicated in hundreds -- yes, hundreds, of murders. They've got him now.
And the legal eagles react. Craigslist has taken down the adult services part of its Web site but will that satisfy the attorneys general from 17 states who accused the popular service of promoting prostitution? And it is happening on what is considered the start of the home stretch for the fall elections. President Obama is traveling to Ohio this week to unveil a new plan to prop up small businesses reeling from the recession but look at the environment that he is stepping into.
Let's bring in our deputy political director Paul Steinhauser. Paul, the president's talking about the economy a lot this week. In addition to Ohio, he's going to be in Milwaukee tomorrow, he'll be holding a news conference in which he'll be having a lot of details, I'm sure, about what he's going to do to get the country going again.
Tell us some more about these numbers in our latest poll because they're certainly not good for the president and his party. Those are troubling numbers. Because, obviously, the economy, jobs, number one issue by far, with Americans.
You talk about the president on Wednesday in Ohio, there's going to be policy there but there's also some politics at play. Ohio, it's a state where Democrats are trying to hold onto the governorship and a bunch of House seats -- Tom. Because it's not like the Republicans are getting a pass. They're just not the party in charge.
