people have in general. if you believe the newsweek poll and other polls that show majority of americans blame the bush policies, not obama, for the economic trouble that we re in, that is a compelling message for candidates on the trail saying give me another look. i was in the ezra camp in that, republicans are going to definitively take the house. but after the rally this past weekend, after hearing sort of the pushback from the white house, president obama, vice president biden, pushing on the base to come out and vote i don t know if i buy into the narrative that the republicans are going to take the house. i don t know whether i buy into it or not. you make a good point. i think president obama is taking strides towards getting the base to go with him the elections now, most cases, decided by independents and swing voters. and the key thing is whether they feel so alienated from president obama so fearful for the pocketbooks. look, the rate is not always to the swift nor th
bet it. this time a lot of things can happen. you re dying to jump in here. speaking from the ezra camp, the other thing i don t people should watch, you can have a very even sort of generic poll, democrat versus republican and people say maybe i prefer the democrat, midterm elections, r particularly this one, young voters drop off, elderly voters going way up. even if the nation is evenly split we could see a lopsided outcome through the demographics how midterm elections work and how this med term election where democrats are depressed and conservatives are very, very engaged is going to work. camp ezra, ezra client, jonathan, karen, dan. we have shirts. i ll get mine this afternoon. feel free to send. thank you so much. we have more to talk politics later on. dan hosts the dan rather reports reports.