of it was. the idea the president seems to have that he didn't speak to the nation enough, that he didn't really provide the proper context to people, he spoke particularly on health care, which he made by far his number one priority, endlessly. this is not a president who has lacked for speeches. he was out there all the time, and, when you think about it, if he made a mistake, not talking enough wasn't it. if he made a mistake in this, it was, once he got the stimulus rammed through congress, which turned out to be a laundry list of pet democratic projects, he abandoned, basically, any economic initiatives, for the next year-and-a-half so he could ram through this historic health care reform, which was while polls would show people wanted health care reform, it was very low on people's priority lists and i think it was a grave miscalculation and i think it is what led to the midterm defeat of his party, in such large numbers, and, it is a mistake that seems, to this day,