excitement on our side. we'll see as we start the process. >> doug heye. veteran conservati strategist and a man who can get the anti-obama talking point into any totally unrelated discussion with admirable efficiency, doug. i always enjoy talking to you. >> rachel, that's the nicest thing anybody said to me. let me point out one thing very, very quickly. when i voted last year in washington, d.c., they asked me for my i.d. if you want to come down with me next time, we can make sure that great travesty is corrected, i'll be happy to stand with you. >> you and me will stand there and make sure the elderly people in tennessee who lost their licenses have to go through rigmarole. we'll have a road tour. we go to david yepsen who covered iowa politics for more than 30 years at "the des moines register" he's the director of the paul simon institute at southern illinois university.