here's how the two candidates interpreted the role of president obama in this race. >> he doesn't want to talk about his support for president obama and all of president obama's initiatives. that's what this election is about. he's trying to run away from it. >> the election is not about president obama. it's about joconway and paul. >> it was sort of on a loop there. they repeated that team again and again there. if we look at wisconsin, the democrat there, russ feingold, he has not run away from the issues that he has supported president obama on. and he points out that he's also voted against the president. but one of the interesting exchanges between feingold and ron johnsonho is a tea party candidate as well never run for office before and a millionaire businessman, they were talking about ads and feingold of course was one of the people who really championed campaign finances reform. he was hitting ron johnson about