use those names to raise money. scratch whatever plans you may have had. something very interesting by dana bash on the ticker. that is for the first time in ten years lobbying, the cost of lobbying, in washington went down. meaning the -- sorry. >> the amount of money spent on it. >> the amount of money spent on lobbying went down. but before we, you know, make too much of it, they still spent $3.47 billion, corporations, unions, et cetera. it's not exactly a possity of dollars running around washington. a story i really like about shannon travis again on the ticker is in his second year, president obama was the most polarizing president in recent history. that is, the difference between his approval rating between democrats and republicans was the largest of any president in his second year in history. the last one that polarizing was eisenhower. i understand obama in a certain