who engineered president obama's successful bid for the white house, david plouffe acknowledged the democrats are facing a difficult challenge. >> when you have a tough economy and you are in power you will have a tough political climate and we won so many elections in 2006 and 2008, in a neutral electoral environment it is clear we were going to give some of that back. >> reporter: and lindsey graham of south carolina was asked if he thinks democratic control of the house is in jeopardy. >> yes, i think it -- if the election were held tomorrow it would be, there's a couple of months to go and at the end of the day i don't know what their agenda will be between now and november but what they have done in the past, no one seems to like and the health care bill is not being talked about a democrats, and the stimulus bill has been an absolute flop and i don't know what this did between now and november other than run against us. >> reporter: graham said president obama is, quote, tone deaf on terrorism issues, and, on the economy. julie? >> julie: steve centanni live in