to do, charliesome. >> yeah, i think that's exactly right, jon. their goal here was to very early portray, you know, portray mitt romney in the light that they want to portray him in, and they've largely failed. there's been some containment of mitt romney's numbers, clearly, but the real problem for president obama is that his numbers are stuck in the 46, 47% range, which is very troubling. the other problem is that mitt romney's kind of surprised us all recently by outraising president obama who has been a fundraising juggernaut for the past four or, you know, five or six years really. you know, in his first campaign it was just astonishing, the busloads of money that he was able to raise. and so mitt romney's outraising him, and mitt romney really hasn't spent a lot of money at the level that the obama campaign has. and i think that's why, jon, you're now seeing a lot of very desperate attacks by the obama campaign and why the obama