you're going have a great night if, you're going to look your best, if you're going to surprise and delight the people who know you best with how much of your best you put out there to the world, if you're going to have a night like that, the only thing you might also wish for in that great circumstance would be that everybody happened to be looking at you when you had that great moment. when you have that great night. and last night it turns out everybody was looking. if you're looking for a historical comparison of a previous presidential campaign, you can't look at 2012. that was the incumbent democratic president running for re-election. there is no comparison there for this year. the last contest we can compare to this year's election was the blockbuster democratic primary in 2007 and 2008 between hillary clinton and barack obama and lots of other compelling democrats besides. that's the point of comparison. that's the historically