would signal our doom in terms of replacing president obama. we need to select someone and get focused on president obama and get him out of the white house. if he's able to pull off a miracle, so be it. but we have a selection process, we're in the middle of it. i'm leading it strongly. i'm going to continue to lead it. you'll see me get the delegates i need to become the nominee and we sure as heck are not going to go to a convention all the way to the end of august to select a nominee and have campaign working during a convention? can you imagine anything that would be a bigger gift to barack obama than us not having a nominee until the end of august? that's not going to happen. >> the backdrop of all this, new numbers we just got yesterday. new cbs news this morning times poll showing president obama still faces an uphill battle for re-election. the brd's job approval according to this "new york times" poll at 41% down nine points from just last month and an all-time low for the president in this will poll. on the economy, the president's approval dips to 9%.