Hours after urging reporters not to draw sweeping conclusions from Tuesday's gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told POLITICO President Barack Obama wasn't even keeping an eye on the results.

"He's not watching returns," Gibbs said.

The Obama administration and other top Democrats have consistently tried to play down the import of this week's contests, which Republicans have sought to portray as a referendum on the Democratic-led government in Washington.

So he has five rallies for Corzine, his propaganda minister is drumming the message that voters should read too much into the returns for days before the election, and we're to accept with a straight face the proposition that the most intensely political president we've ever had, wasn't watching the returns?

How can you tell when the Obama administration is lying?

Their lips are moving.