remember thelma hart? she's the obama supporter who said she had become exhausted defending him, then she lost her job a few months later in many ways finding the best answer to her question and the remedy for her exaugs defined the year in politics. the question becomes now looking back on it all now, karen, how did that shake out? >> i think it shook out as a pretty conventional mid term election. all year long, right up until election day the democrats kept telling us elections are really choices between two candidates and the republicans kept saying no, this is going to be a referendum on the president. that's what midterms are for after presidential elections. they are often the american public kind of putting its foot on the brake just a bit. and ultimately what happened was people expressed their disappointment that the economy had not improved as much as they had hoped. they expressed their frustrations that they did not believe president obama had put as much focus improving the economy. their fea