hill. the national political writer for the associated press is here, and the executive editor of politico. start with bill clinton, jim, start with you. look, let's put this in perspective. you and i both covered the '94 cycle and remember when bill clinton couldn't get an invite to kentucky for house races? put this in perspective for folks. because i know i see democratic partisan or others saying, look, bill clinton's there an barack obama's not. in ten years, barack obama's going to be the guy in kentucky. right? >> that definitely can be the case. i think clinton is now seen as a moderate inside of the party. back then in '94 he was not necessarily seen that way. people were not happy with his policies. he can go a lot of places where obama can't go. obama's still an amazing asset for democrats in that he can turn out a huge crowd like he did the 26,000 in madison not long ago. he can still raise a lot of money, he can fire up the base. but there are places like west virginia, pennsylvania, wisconsin, colorado, we can go