in this case, to avoid saying, accidentally, ohioa. vice president joe biden has the same kind of problem today on the campaign trail. >> ladies and gentlemen, this is a guy who's running all the ads here in iowa, saying that he's going to get tough on china. >> yes, except joe biden was not "here in iowa," he was, here in ohio when he said that. see, if we could just call it ohioa, it would be so much easier for everybody at this point in the campaign. at this point in the campaign, we are essentially focused on a map of the country that doesn't look like this, it looks like this. this is the actually country that gets to elect the president of the united states. the combined population of this country is roughly 21% of the total population of the united states, but that conglomeration of states is who gets to pick our next president. which means the equivalent of a country the size of france is deciding who the president is of a country the size of us. that little france-sized country gets tons and tons of attention now, to the point