44/45% for gore. we know that gore won the popular vote and bush got 270 electoral votes to 266 for gore. so are we seeing this as a standard republican strategy, talk momentum, we re winning, we re winning, we re winning, to really try to drive out their vote and try to convince independents, go to where the winners are? you know, both sides do this kind of thing. both sides sort of play this mind game that i actually can never get my head around. i can t decide if what they are trying to do is convince people if they are winning or say the other side is winning so people will turn out and vote to make sure that you will win. it s a dangerous game. i think for the most part they do it to influence media coverage. i m not sure that they are connecting with voters with this kind of talk. the message we need to get to voters is, you need to vote no matter what. it doesn t matter and it s sort