was not elegantly stated and then seeming to support it and last night softening it substantially to say i'm for 100% of the people. it has given president obama yet another opportunity to come out, and we just heard from him to come out and say, i don't know if mitt romney has been around. i don't know if he knows what's going on out there. there's still plenty of time left in this campaign. we have the debates coming up. that's going to be a critical moment for both candidates, but time is running out. mitt romney has to get on message if he wanted to pull ahead. >> rachel, we talked all summer about mitt romney's $300 million summer. he was going to have more money in his campaign for the fall. now he had to borrow money over the summer, a lot of that 300 million was raised in conjunction with the republican national committee with other republican organizations. that romney himself can't spend it, and he may actually against obama be at a spending disadvantage. has the media just gotten the money story in this race completely wrong? >> there's a lot of money