big question. if the strategy was at the beginning, paint romney as a corporate raider. paint him as the rich guy who doesn t care about you. paint him as the guy out of touch, who can t deal with the middle class. if that didn t work bauds that debate because that debate shattered, that then you are dealing with a record. what happens? they don t have anything. the reason they went after the kill romney strategy is because they calculated correctly, they can t run on the record that i mean to can t run on stewardship. huge debt. high chronic unemployment. the worst recovery since the second world war. can t run on that. can t run on the future or a vision, because he doesn t have a program. nothing on medicare. nothing on entitlements, nothing on the debt. nothing. so all you can do is to destroy the opponent. that s, you know, that s a strategy. the problem is, they succeeded. look, obama was ahead for months and months because of the millions of dollars of ads. as you said portr