going to be a strong push by residents to say you got to do this. recovery act money. and they hated it. they wound out putting press releases, we hate the stimulus but we ll take it. come on. will romney have to do nothing? no, he will sign executive orders, he will slow things down, but repeal is a whole other question. that s if you can get to 60 votes and if you can convince people it s not a budget reconciliation measure. remember, 60 votes in the senate, no matter what happens in this election is going to be a real stretch for republicans. rob portman, in the new york times, says you can t get everything through reconciliation with respect to appeal, just the budgetary stuff. within the gop caucus there is confusion. surprise. dissent within the gop caucus. coming up, the obama campaign fills in-boxes with messages about low fund-raising cofferes. does it indicate urgency or desperation or something else? we will talk with bill burton.