the romney campaign has the stink of death right now. i mean when you see polls in florida and ohio and you can argue about whether or not they're accurate or not. there are multiple ones coming out with high single-didn't leads, this is really bad. when you see polls showing you're not connecting with the middle class, that's really bad. when you have basically, again, a little less than six weeks to make your case, the romney campaign is about as terrible a position you can imagine. >> obviously you could imagine polls worse. but having said that, john, i'm not sure he even has six weeks. early voting starts next tuesday in ohio, as well as nebraska. i think it's already under way in idaho, vermont, iowa. wyoming. how does that change the campaign strategy? >> first i think you have to point out in almost every single poll obama is under 50% or at