chris chris has influenced matters because we re still analyzing what he s saying and our readers start to pick that up. and the white house seems to care because just this week and this is a president who s never been particularly close to journalists. barack obama had over for lunch, and he s been doing more of this lately, some liberal columnists, rachel maddow who we saw earlier sighing on msnbc. jean robinson of the washington post. gail collins of the new york times. is that effective? yes, because this white house i think during the campaign and certainly once they got into office they had this vuf politics, that they were everything, they didn t need the media, they didn t need the blogs, they only needed their own grassroots and themselves and that s it. and now? and now they realize what they had wasn t enough, that the president s opinion polls have gone downtown mid 40s now and they re kind of stuck there. i think i have to disagree with that. i think we ve