that's marc halparin, senior analyst for "time" magazine in this week's issue. what do you think about that basic observation? >> i think it's absolutely true. it certainly has changed the level of confidence on both teams. we'll see how it plays out. >> he's talking about the level of belief. >> that's another word for confidence. each side has a different -- >> it is june of this year, and i think mort's word, confidence, a lot of republicans are saying, we don't know if we can do it with mitt, we had a bad can't date. do you think they now agree with halparin? >> you travel a lot with romney. do you think that we are now reaching an obama reaction to obama, for this crowd, of course, it's different, but do you think, already done the obama thing, in other words this is now a referendum on obama? >> it's going to be a referendum -- depends what the economy is looking like in the months right before the election but people are feeling a real sense of anxiety about the economy, that it's just not getting any better, and they're looking to who is going to help ge