for the middle income americans, working americans. >> you have spent your break in 11 states, 20 candidates. we're now looking at some fairly well respected political pundits saying democrats might lose as many as 60 seats. what's the probl out there? >> well, i think tse pundits are wrong, number one. we're going to hold the house. we're going to win -- >> but you're going to lose seats. >> we're going to lose seats probably. i think that's undoubtedly -- >> 24? 34? >> i'm not going to speculate on a number, candy, but we're going to hold the house. as you said, i've been 20 candidates, 11 states ov the last 2 1/2 weeks. our candidates are feeling good. what's going to happen is people are going to compare not the perfect, but the alternatives. as joe biden likes to say, they're not going to compare us with the almighty, they're goinc to compare us with the alternative. an alternative that wants to go back tthe exact same bush policies, according to sessions, their campaign chairman, which led to high deficits, the worst job performance of any administtion since herbert hoover and extraordinary reduction in the wealth of our country and the stock market nked. >> but can you stave off disaster for democrats -- >> absolutely. >> -- when you have democrats who don't particularly want to talk about health care reform and those who voted against it actually have ads out there for it who don't much want to talk about the stimulus program and how much it cost? is it enough to say, yeah, but the republicans got us into this mess.