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Reason for them to vote against. so obviously, this doesn't happen in a vacuum. the president and his policies are very much at issue in these races. >> but interestingly, the vice president is more popular, probably in some of these rallies with the democratic base than the president. >> yeah, you know. this is something that goes back to campaign t2008. there were places and settings where they thought vice president biden was a great candidate. he has that kind of folksy delivery. he's got the working-class roots which he's happy to play up. so you know, they want to use all of the players ...

If you exit from those strategies too soon, could you exacerbate the financial situation, the economic situation and send us into recession? and the really scary thing about that, i had one economist on the phone this morning who said if we were to slide back into recession, not everyone thinks we will, but if we did, there's really no policy response because congress would not spend the kind of money it did before on a stimulus, so it's really scary. >> and exactly why it's a perilous time and why the president is getting out of town and trying to find a friendly audience. thank you, savannah...