you know, i -- i think probably santorum would be the weaker kanld -- candidate but crazier things have happened. >> what about you? this has been an argument. it's interesting when you go out and listen to the heated debates and arguments between hillary clinton and barack obama, that went on for quite sometime all the way into spring and at that time, i think the republicans were looking back and thinking wow, that really energized democrats to get excited about the political scenario so they wanted to maybe create that. but has it been a good thing now for republicans? >> no, it's not been a good thing for romney. if you recall at that point in time, obama actually increased his favorables by 20% during the primary process. romney, unfortunately, has seen his favorables drop 20% in the opposite. so it's been an absolutely different result for both of them. >> why? has it been the more negative advertising that we've seen? >> i think that obama has had an opportunity to really share a message. and really talk to the american