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what your environment is like has to do what your life is like, what your situation -- your financial situation is like. what the quality of your life. so i think for her, it all ties together. she's the first lady you have to find something to do that makes your heart sing and follow that. >> as the first lady -- >> as the first lady. >> life in general. >> right. did she lobby for these projects? >> she did lobby. she -- for the highway billboard act, to take billboards off of national highways, mrs. johnson actually met with west wing staff and had her own call sheet of people to ...

Candidate problem for democrats now. virginia, this is not -- this makes life a little easier for george allen. not a lot easier. george allen only got 52% in 2000 the first time he ran when he had a 60% popularity rating when chuck robb was a flawed nominee. virginia is a tough state for either party to walk away with. the pressure is on tim kaine. he was adamant, he told jim webb i'm not going to run. don't feel better about not running because you think i'm going to be there. let's see what happens when the president puts pressure on tim kaine to do that. i don't think the tim kaine thing i...

sneaking a smoke? >> no. you can tell. plus controversy divides conservatives ahead of their annual convention as cpac faces boycott for including gays. let's do lunch. the president invites the top republican leaders for lunch. on the menu, budgets, taxes, the debt ceiling and maybe the failure to renew the patriot act for dessert. let's bring in chuck todd, co-host of the daily rundown and kelly o'donnell. you guys aren't having lunch because they are having lunch. there is a lot to cover here. >> they won't let us in. >> they won't let you in. first to you, chuck, on the presi...

take them to the polls with you. make these last days count for marshall coleman, for virginia, and for the united states of america. thank you... reporter: it was an angry marshall coleman who turned up for a late afternoon news conference at the state capitol. trailing in pre-election public opinion polls with time running out, coleman charged that virginia news organizations have glossed over what he termed douglas wilder's dishonesty and corruption. i don't think it matters how much history doug wilder's election on tuesday would make. he has to meet the same high standards that ...

barack obama is in trouble. >> what about democrats in that? >> among democrat, 46% say they want him challenged in a primary. those are both troubling signs for an incumbent heading back into a cycle. other polls show is wide up. mit romney is also in there. we polled i think 11 names. any one of them could win that nomination. >> is the wild card? >> the wild card and the trump card. there have been a couple hints of positive economic numbers this past week even. if that were to continue, i would suspect barack obama's fortunes would change. aside from the polling numbers and the c...