with flying colors. bill: i don't mean to interrupt you but i have a minute left. we'll move to your home state of ohio. what is the status of the buckeye state today? where does that race stand? >> well, momentum is in our direction, bill. i have never seen such energy and enthusiasm on the ground. i know you will be in ohio next week. you will see it there. crowds are big. we made more phone calls than all of 2008 already with your volunteers. we made 25 times more door knocks. our volunteers working hard. polls showed us five points down a couple weeks ago. now it is a dead-heat. it is dead heat in the national polls. it is also a dead-heat frankly in our own tracking that we're doing. so i would like to be in our position right now rather than in president obama's position because the trend is in our direction. frankly in ohio the issue is jobs and economy and again, governor romney is laying out an agenda and a strategy to deal with it. president obama is saying four more years of the last four. people are not looking to the repeat the last four. bill: if you lose in ohio do you see a clear path to