economy and it would have brought i think other presidents down. but by the combination of people's like of him and their trust of him coupled with the greatest voter mobilization ever in history, he was able to be re-elected. now i think these chickens are all coming home to roost. the whopper about you can keep your plan, you can keep your doctor, you can keep your hospital is the big weapon that's hurting badly. but there's an accumulation of things that have caused people to lose trust. now that it's lost as a million other people have already said, megyn, it's very hard to regain it. >> and do you think, britt, because there's been so much talk in the country about whether we're more politically divided than ever. is that playing into it, that the country is so adamantly opposed to one another, we've got cable news wars. is that causing president obama to be in a worse situation than prior presidents? >> well, perhaps, but look, it's been this way for a while. and the polarized electorate means that any president of either party is going to have