hill. the national political writer for the associated press is here, and the executive editor of politico. start with bill clinton, jim, start with you. look, let s put this in perspective. you and i both covered the 94 cycle and remember when bill clinton couldn t get an invite to kentucky for house races? put this in perspective for folks. because i know i see democratic partisan or others saying, look, bill clinton s there an barack obama s not. in ten years, barack obama s going to be the guy in kentucky. right? that definitely can be the case. i think clinton is now seen as a moderate inside of the party. back then in 94 he was not necessarily seen that way. people were not happy with his policies. he can go a lot of places where obama can t go. obama s still an amazing asset for democrats in that he can turn out a huge crowd like he did the 26,000 in madison not long ago. he can still raise a lot of money, he can fire up the base. but there are places like west virginia, pen