are the chinese overtaking us? what's the debt cliff going to look like two, three months from now? is the dollar going to be trash? are we going to look like california? are we going to look like greece? there are so many questions in 2012 that we didn't have in 1980. we're in a recession in 1980, things were bleak, but the gun wasn't to our head like it is economically right now. and when that question is not being answered by the president of the united states, a lot of people go, well, i guess i'll try the other guy. >> well, the points we made a couple times this morning that romney did a lot of -- obama allowed romney to and he did a lot to make himself a more acceptable alternative in that first debate. one of the things the president's tale, in the earlier construct of this race, we had the romney team wanting this to