supreme court decision makes people rethink this. and it makes them rethink it in the middle of the electorate. and for democrats having won, a victory is something they re going to want to defend. the intensity grows around that. let s talk about the second term. between now and the end of the summer at the convention, obama has to draw a picture of the second term. had he lost this fight, he would have said look at what i m going to do in this second term walking in with an empty slate on the first term. this way he can say i did this this year. i can do stuff. i can make history. i therefore can make more history. had he been blown away on the main building block of this administration, i think he would have had a hard time staying. i go back to where i was yesterday. the biggest stakes yesterday were he could have lost. yeah, yeah, yeah. often in politics, a win can blow away quickly. but a loss just hangs on. if that rate had gone south and