you just scratch your head and say we should be gaining hundreds of thousands of jobs by this time and they are still trying to pitch this as policies are working and they are not. greta: is he hurting the president or is the president hurting him? neither or both? nationally, i don t think harry reid is really making much of a difference to the president s numbers. i think the president is certainly hurting him in me have . the policies that he decided to double down on this health care that is going to be a disaster for democrats, disaster for harry reid it is a pretty independent state they are not paying attention to what the public cares about. you re question to john mccain was good. should do you whatever the public wants? no you shouldn t at the moment. you owe them your best judgment a but as john said you have to be able to relate to the american public and tell them why what you are