finney, hopefully joining us shortly. john, i go to you first. in terms of sandy being an inflection point, game changer, if you will, a term we do not toss around lightly, are we is it is it a game changer? can you prognosticate that far? do you think the president is stronger coming out of the sandy response as a candidate? look, there s no question that if you think about this storm and what it s done to the media environment over the course of the week, it s blackout coverage. so the president s been in that coverage. and to some extent, much driven by the storm but he s he s there, he s the president on screen. governor romney has been nowhere. he s just it s not his fault. he s just not part of this conversation. he doesn t have anything to say about it. he doesn t have a role to play. so if you re a challenger, running a presidential campaign, in the last week to essentially be blocked from the airwaves for