. >> stephen elliott happens to be visiting during convention week. >> i'm a little disan pint 0ed.ot of hope and promise. i don't think he will fulfilled a lot of those hopes and dreams that he was talking about. i think he let a lot of people down. >> but the obama campaign isn't banking on voters like elliott. they've long been considered out of reach for the democratic party. and in the last four years, he's lost even more ground. >> the president is facing significant decline. especially with those blue collar white men. they have been the toughest audience for him from the outset. but the numbers are getting really bad, possibly the lowest for any democratic nominee in possibly 40 years. >> exit polls from 2008 show 57% of white males voted for john mccain. 41% for obama. the latest numbers from this summer show the president has slipped 8 percentage points more with this group. that means he has to increasingly rely on voter who's tends to be in his quarter, hispanic, black and young voters and especially women. >> it was almost impossible for them to make a change in four ye