axelrod s comments, titanic struggle might be an understatement when you look at some of these poll numbers. reporter: well, it has the virtue of being honest, put it that way, and the virtue of necessity. they re trying to fir up the base. that s what the president has been doing ever since he gave that jobs speech to congress. when you tell the base that they are in for a struggle, it s a political call to arms and that certainly serves their political purposes at the white house as well. about 12 hours ago the president alit on the south lawn of the white house aboard marine one. three days, five cities, three fund-raisers, those marines who fly marine one, laden down with the $4 million he raised on that trip, unclear whether that was actually on board. good news from the white house today from an unlikely source. our friends at bloomberg surveyed 34 economists. it sort of flies in the face of what we ve been hearing from the republican op is situation. they surveyed them about t