Hey, pull up a chair.

It's Hacks on Tap with David Axelrod and Mike Murphy.

So you know it was funny, Ax, I was watching a little television and I thought my house

might burn down because so many sparks were coming out of my cable TV as all the hyperventilated

videos.

I was just wondering if the campaign was going to hit the rocks for two of the candidates.

These were important moments but these things have a lot of moments and maybe voters are

a little more patient than those of us who watch it.

Or patient or they're actually living their lives.

They're not hanging on every development of the campaign.

I mean we relearn this lesson every campaign which is that voters focus late because they've

got other things going on in their lives.

And I mean activists are focused.

There's just a AP poll out in the last day.

It said only 35% say they're paying close attention to the campaign and only 22% of Democrats

say they know a lot about the candidate's position.

So first of all this underscores why these debates this week could be important in terms

of people tuning in and getting acquainted.

But secondly it underscores what we know which is that all these events that become the

decisive events on cable TV often come and go.

But we had a couple last week and I think the important thing is I always judge these events

in terms of what lessons do they teach us about these candidates or campaigns less than

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