we've seen the governor's race here in iowa go from a double-digit race down, our candidate, governor culver, was down to a single-digit race. and all over the country, whether it's pennsylvania, florida, california, colorado, washington state, we're seeing polls move in democrats' favor. we've got a lot of work to do. i'm glad we still have two more weeks, but you want to hit election day when you're in an up cycle and i believe that we are. >> dnc chairman, tim kaine, thank you so much for joining us this morning. >> it is now 7:12. okay, here's matt. >> ann, thanks very much. for more on the mood of the voters heading into the midterm elections, let's bring in chuck todd, chief white house correspondent. chuck, good to see you. i want to look at the latest poll numbers on president obama. 49% of people disapprove of the job he's doing. that's about the same as last month, but i don't see democratic candidates coming up with bumper stickers in the last two week saying, our president is no less popular than he was a month ago. what do they do with those numbers? >> what you do is you go ins