MARK SHIELDS:

No, that's right. Carrier air conditioning, which Donald Trump played to a fare-thee-well, quite honestly, and understandably, that they are leaving Indianapolis and going to Mexico and taking the jobs with it.

I thought he made a better case. And it's a sense of trying to remind people, but it comes down to, how do you feel? I mean, President Obama has a surprisingly good job rating. David mentioned George W. Bush. George W. Bush in the fall of 2008, when John McCain was trying to win the Republican — another term for the Republican White House, had a 25 percent favorable rating.

The president is over 50. I mean, he's got a higher job rating. But people don't feel good about the direction of the country. And I think that's real. And that's partly Washington. It's partly Wall Street. Things aren't working, that nobody really cares that the top 1 percent — I think there is a whole host of factors that contribute to that.

But the president is — he is cerebral. He makes a cerebral argument. But, at a gut level, it probably isn't as persuasive.