states. matt dowd, i hate and i have banned from this program the sort of useless predictions that usually happens in midterms. we know that midterms are hard for a president s party. 2002 defied that because our homeland security was on the ballot. our homeland security is now our elementary school security, and it is most definitely on the ballot. i wonder your thoughts about a simpler message that communicates the reality. well, i think you hit on exactly what i ve tried to say, and i m going to keep trying to say in the course of this, is for all the accomplishments ron has laid out and what the white house has done in a very competent way. that s not what this election should be about if the democrats want to win. that is not what this election should be about. it has to be about something at 10,000 feet that basically says our country is on the line. and the democrats have to do this in a way to connect the dots. i ve said before we ve had this