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The comment that he should be focusing on republicans, the congressional leadership fund has driven an enormous amount of money driven by paul ryan, and it was there keep the house fund. he has also campaigned for 55 candidates over the course of this campaign. hasn't been highly visible out there, but i think when it comes to all of the races, he has certainly been a presence. but when it comes to, clearly, on paul ryan's side he feels like this was sort of a distraction issue that was brought up, and he is trying to sort of knock it down and say let's move back to the more important issues. ...

And republicans had felt the way the house map looked to get him into the mid-40s that might give them a fighting chance to keep the house. now, i have to tell you, just in the last hour, gallup which does a weekly poll on the president's job approval rating, they have given us the latest weekly number and he is coming in at 40%. that is a 4-point drop in gallup just from last week and it raises the question, given the head lines for the president involved in for the last couple of days, the controversy over handled the crises in this country, if that approval rating does drop, if what we just...

Base and some of those really red states. that might help them protect or pick up some senate seats. but i don't think it's going to save them, as kevin pointed out, in the suburban area that are so important for the house map and the gubernatorial map. we saw in the virginia elections last year, those were really the first quote/unquote elections we had since the presidential. turnout was high. ed gillespie, the republican, got more votes than anybody who had been governor before that, who had won that race before that. but the democrat got so many more votes because that democratic intensity...

Let's discuss with jonathan martin, national political correspondent for "the new york times" and jonathan green. j. martin, you've been reporting in the midwest. where do you see the momentum at the moment? >> two americas from that great american philosopher, john edwards, a senate map and a house map. i think the senate map is much more favorable to the republicans at this point than the house map. talking to folks yesterday, both democrats and republicans, they believe that right now the senate probably looks like anywhere from, you know, stay where it is to a plus one or two gop gain. loo...

Somehow get all three of those race, i want to show you something, this would take it away. if the republicans can get these races, bam, not only do they hold the majority, they would add to it out there if they can do that, especially because of the momentum in north dakota. democrats cannot afford to lose the races. >> and obviously, there are places where the president is not so popular. what's the flip side? >> so the president is focusing mostly on senate races. i'll bring the house map. if you look at the races you won't see the president in the northeast or mid atlanta, he is going back...