sense that right now as we speak, there is a deep, a wide, and a very aggressive panic in the democratic party. it started minutes into the debate and it continues right now. it involves party strategists in evolves elected officials. it involves fundraisers and they re having conversations about the president s performance, which they think was dismal, which they think will hurt other people down the party in the ticket and they re having conversations about what they should do about it. some of those conversations include should we go to the white house and as the president step aside, others are other the conversations are about should prominent democrats go public with that call? because they feel this debate was so terrible. they do say, in moments in the debate later, the president got better and got his footing. but then at the end, even his closing statement was a little halting. the contrast between the two candidates. let me be clear. none of them and a lot of repub