you're looking to before going into a presidential campaign. medical doctor howard dean, usa columnist cnn political analyst kiersten powers, but she is not a medical doctor yet. but maybe. governor dean, so based on these numbers, especially the economic ones, i'm wron derrion what kind of strategy do you think the democratic presidents for candidate might be using right now. are they talking about the economy enough? is that something they see as a strength, do you think? >> i think the economy is relatively strong. our debt has been extraordinary as it always appears to get under republican presidents. but generally i think average people -- the people in the middle and below do not feel like they've benefited from the tax cut and all that. i think, look, this election is going to turn on whether you think you'd like to have donald trump in your house when your children are awake. basically, as i said before on this program, our strategy has to not be talking about donald