campaign on not being able to cast a leadership vision, a larger vision for the country. so do we have enough time to figure out the big picture between now and election day? >> we might. but i think it will look very different going into the debates. mitt romney has not been on the campaign trail nearly as much as people would like to see him on the right. because he's been spending so much time doing debate prep. 48 hours this week he did five debates. in those two days. this is what they think could possibly turn it around if he turns in some very good debate performances against president obama. >> isn't that the hail mary in all this? because everybody is waiting to go see what the debates are going to show. >> it is. but you know, thomas, it's funny. i rarely use sports annal just when talking about politics. but sometime in july it was as if we started the second half of the basketball game. and mitt romney started a couple points down in the last couple of months president obama has been going on a scoring run against mitt romney. and we're now about five minutes left. where what needs to happen is that mitt romney needs to go on