independent voters, brooke, some lean democratic, some lean republican. and some of them are in the middle. what i like to say is that this is an election about getting out your pace, about mobilizing the people you know will support you. it may, in fact, despite all the billions of dollars that will be spent, be more about mobilization than about persuasion. but you never know that from looking at all the negative advertising we re seeing that s already playing itself out and will continue for the next four months. so, as we talk persuasion, let s talk strategy. what is the president s strategy to then reach these voters and does his plan to partially extend the bush tax cuts, does that play into that? anger against president obama will really be the motivating factor. to bring out their base but they still have to go for those for those folks in the middle if they re going to win. this is obviously going to be such a tight election. let me play a little sound as we me