>> let's talk about the exploiting the race issue. when you talk about the term, welfare queen, newt gingrich, food stamp president. isn't this a desperate move by the romney campaign? we know they've had a terrible, terrible summer. can this work for them? >> well, look, up at harvard, there's a great book about the tea party and what the tea party's really all about. and a lot of this, that part of the republican base, it's not actually white working class voters, although that's a part of it, but it's a broader section of the republican party that is very much animated by some of the things i was talking about before, resentment towards what they think is undeserving americans taking away money that they think is theirs. the romney campaign needs to have that part of the party enthused about his campaign. and in a lot of swing voting segments of the country, where there are a lot of working class vote earth undecided about the president, preying on resentments, making them feel as if the president is a traditional, old-school, liberal kind of democrat, that is right, that is something that if there