short-term optimism is up, fewer people are worried about where this country is going to be five years from now. so, kate, does this help him going into the state of the union? >> absolutely. so that will be -- >> is it a different state of the union speech than he would have given after the shellacking and before they made some progress, for example, during the lame duck session and then his approval ratings started going up. >> two questions. yes, one, it is a different speech had the shellacking not occurred and they did get a lot done in the lame duck session. obama said i am moving forward and the democratic-controlled congress got things done. we made some compromises with republicans, he may compromise on taxes, of course. tax cuts. he may compromise or he got the don't ask, don't tell repeal passed. all sorts of things, all sorts of accomplishments he can point to. >> kate, governor, congressman, stay with us. we have more to talk about. we have news about tucson.