"I will admit to you the polls are challenging right now. You know, they've been challenging for other Democratic leaders in the past. We believe if you just do the right things over time, they're going to work," Democratic National Committee Chairman and former governor, Tim Kaine told Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace. "We're going to win some surprising races, Chris, because of who the other guys have put up. It's going to be challenging out there, but it's on the field where we win races. And we feel good about it," Kaine added. When asked about Democratic candidates who have been putting some distance between themselves and leadership, Kaine said, "I think if you run away from who you are, that you're a Democrat and you're proud to be a Democrat, it's foolish. And the reason it's foolish is you've got a lot to be proud of." "This Congress has every reason to be very, very proud of the heavy lifting that they have done," Kaine said, mentioning health care reform, economic stimulus policies and "2 women on the Supreme Court and 4 million more American kids with health insurance." The former governor also gave his take on the upcoming economic policy initiatives President Barack Obama is scheduled to announce this week. "I know the president wants to continue to give businesses that incentive to continue that innovation and research that powers our economy," Kaine offered. "The Democratic strategy has been -- and it's going to be discussed in more detail later -- let's target the tax credits to middle-class folks and to small businesses, but especially let's target the tax credits to where they will do the most good," he added. Kaine was not ready to concede that it was a mistake to call the past couple of months "the summer of recovery." "There are still some challenges out there," Kaine acknowledged, "But let me throw a couple of other facts on there. After nearly 20 months in a row of private sector job loss, we've gained jobs in the private sector now eight months in a row. There was some net losses over the summer because the census phased out. But we have the private sector economy growing again.The GDP, which was shrinking, is now growing." "The Democrats have built the ladder. We built the ladder and we're climbing again. We've got a long way to go," the party chair said. "As long as people are hurting, this president and his team are going to be focused on the issue of jobs," Kaine predicted.