inflation, health care cost had doubled. so there was a lot of anxiety out there. and i think, in anxious times, people get on more of a hairtrigger. they're afraid that they are not doing the right by their families. they're afraid their own dreams are going to be thwarted. and the silence on kind of politics, you know, that one extreme or the other it seems to have more weight. >> you're quoting yates to me the other day on the plane. and the center. and both you and tony blair the prime minister that i spoke to recently about you in fact and he's very supportive of what you did and it's very similar. today in this environment is it possible to find that third way again? to bring a center left constituency together when everybody wants to maybe get on the air on msnbc and take a far left position. get on fox and take a murdoch position all the way right. i don't see the republican party fighting that center right. is there a democratic center right?