it s a net gain. if you look at bill clinton, i don t think he s hurt the campaign between the convention speech, exactly what liz said. i don t think that you could say that bill clinton has hurt this campaign. ramesh, you would rather be the nasty conservative or the flip-flopper? i think if the obama folks had gone after romney as a flip-flopper he d be slightly worse off than he is now and there would be articles saying why didn t the democrats go after imas a right wing extremist. shameless plugs around the table, lead us off. eric cantor has a new report on obama s constitutional records that builds in part on my work. interesting. i ll say go ohio state buckeyes beat penn state this weekend. they can t do anything with their undefeated record. oh, come on, had to throw it in there. the victory lap great book. i ve read it. and we have a shameless plug from chuck, for buskin in