>> pat, what are the issues that mack a republican ignite in the election and cause them to have the election and juice to go on for the general. >> we have a changing political situation right now. the economy is a problem with the president after yesterday's numbers it is about, it may be half of the election. but there is a greater issue out there, the issue of what i call the spector of decline that hangs over the country that people feel. that is in a way we have not seen in years. >> we haven't seen it since the jimmy carter years. >> and water gate. >> yes, he never used that word. >> but a sense of what the country in trouble . we have now the debt, we have question of are we going to make it in the world and what happened to the economy. both partis and remember something that is important. right now, what is building up in the country, is a great opposition to both parties in