we drug 20 people to the polls. we have to be energized in charlotte and return to our homes and energize people at home. >> what about the message coming out from this? chris matthews, to use the term fired up, since that's the theme, very very passionate about believing the president does not have a strong back-up team. that there are not enough surrogates going on "meet the press" and other places, who are knocking down the notion that the president is stealing medicare or somehow he plans to gut parts of programs that save and help lives here with health care reform, for example. what's his back-up team going to be like when you leave charlotte tomorrow? >> well, there are men and women who can go across the country and tell the story. i'll tell you what equipped them. president bill clinton took the nation to school last night.