economic growth was more important to them than economic fairness. fairness is a major theme for mr. obama and his party. with attacks on romney s business record and repeated the none too subtle appeals to the element of the base, obama is shooting for a big democratic turn-out in november. but gallup reports the number of democrats who say they are more enthusiastic about voting is at 39% down from 51% from four years ago. 51% of republicans are more enthusiastic and that is up from 2008. when you put this together with the continuing bad news on the economy, you know why mr. obama is suddenly reaching out to bill clinton. this is a distraction call. bret? bret: as always, thank you. democrats are taking steps to put support for gay marriage in the party platform at the summer convention. drafting committee unanimously approved the idea over the