them. obviously, now, as you suggest with the polling numbers the president eat not nearly as popular as he once was, and democrats in some cases are scrambling to get away from the president. you had a situation in virginia where the president wuss on in the jobs tour where ward armstrong, the house minority leader who s a democrat, is running ads contrasting his views with the president s views. this is how democrats in a lot of these key battleground states are approaching the president. it s not helpful to the president. jon: juan, you think it s more a matter of, well, the president s perm popularity rating personal popularity rating remains very high. i think that s a key point. and, you know, just to pick up on what steve was saying, you can see this writ large in terms of some senate campaigns, people like joe manchin in west virginia, claire mccaskill in missouri. but, you know, i think, jon, it s a little bit of short-sighted thinking. i remember back with president bush