If you're 65 and unemployed, you're more likely to be that way for a long time.

In many ways, the 2012 presidential election is a referendum on a number: the nation's unemployment rate of 7.9 percent. Reporters in Oklahoma City (unemployment around 5 percent) and San Bernardino, Calif., (unemployment pushing 12 percent) look behind the numbers.

Indie rockers The National take a break from a recording session in upstate New York to talk politics and election issues, and perform a version of their economically inspired "Bloodbuzz Ohio"

Reporter Krissy Clark sits down with the lead singer of The National to see how a 'non-political' band makes music in an election year.