of gaining his ground in trying to prove that he is this outside guy but also a conservative with a conservative record and still kind of an awe shucks midwestern guy. in the end it sort of ended up like a muddled kind of message. but the fact he went from riding so high, jake, to now literally an asterisk in our poll shows that, you know, we see it as a problem but clearly that campaign which is very big, they have a lot of staffers, a lot of overhead if you will, shows they don't have a path. >> he was number one in the polls in neighboring iowa. and then he started sinking i think he was ninth or tenth. "new york times" reported that there were fundraiser of his that started saying on the record they were going to look around at other candidates. it was reported last week that he owed $100,000 to various vendors. this campaign was in trouble. and he needed something big. he needed to make it clear to people that he was going to be