with independents. my suspicion is that it would not. he has his eye on that prize. to your point, and perhaps that s why he would say these things in private. he is in florida with some high dollar fund-raisers. donors who might perhaps want to hear that and that s why he is not saying it out in public because to your point, it would turn off independents. let me bring this up. another point he talked about was hispanic voters acknowledging that party has a big problem. 20% in some of the swing states. he said we have to get the hispanic voters to vote for our party. he talked about a dream act. he all but slayed rick perry when he offered compassion to students in texas that could be in this country illegally. the primary season was really devoid of any constructive conversation about what to do, other than strengthening the borders. on that everyone of the candidates, however many they numbered at that time, were all in agreement.
the white house staff. there have been similar criticisms but i think the president has actually responded and made it clear to the base in particular. remember, he spent last week on the campaign trail doing low dollar and high dollar fund-raisers, ofas, very aggressively reaching out to supporters. i think they have done some things that carter frankly couldn t do. but, again, you know, remember contessa, later this week we re going to see bp is supposed to report their earnings on, like, wednesday and exxonmobil thursday. so when those profits come out, and people see how much money the gas company the oil companies are making, a lot of the anger is probably going to be deflected in that direction, which will, i hate to say it, give all politicians a little sigh of relief. yeah, for sure. all right, karen, thank you. appreciate that. you lead me into my question of the day. we hate it when gas prices go up but we live in a supply and demand society. we demand a lot of gas and