financial rules can play more one-on-one. they don't have to give to the larger structures they have in the past. they can pick and choose their candidates. they're waiting to see. the interesting part of that is that those candidates really don't need that cash right now. because of the way the system is designed with the kind of media attention they're getting, they're staying in the front of the field in terms of the voters' image of them and people seeing them in a way that allows them to compete. pawlenty getting out was the craziest thing in the world. he should've stayed in the race. if he stayed in, he probably would have been the settled on candidate. because he felt he had no money, which he didn't really need. >> didn't need. john heilemann, why is it? money still is the mother's milk of american politics, why is everybody dried out? >> well, i think there's been the donor class wants to be with the winner. they want to be with the strong candidate. and they've had the same attitude toward a lot of the republican candidates that a lot