He's talking about the intensity he feels in the campaign. GW has mentioned this also, but only briefly. Rush asking why Prez going into dem areas while Kerry going to areas that should be his base. VP says it's a feeling we're battling more on their turf. Doable for us this time around.
The fact is, as we were talking about on the Hawaii/RNC thread that Kerry has to draw an inside straight of something like 6-7 battleground states now to even get in the neighborhood of winning.