nonvictories are, shall we say, a nonvictory today here with bennet. as will here, romanoff wins. it s going to create a really bad picture of this white house political shop. given all the other political problems the white house has, i think it is fairly small much the thing is the key is that they recruit eed bennet. there are certain things you have to do as the party leader, whether it is trying to get arlen expecter to switch parties, which was his endorsement there or backing an appointed senator, certain things the party leader does. i don t think it will reflect that much on the president and minor embarrassment. quickly on the colorado governor s race, a wild finish on the republican side, the establishment there hoping their candidate wins the primary because they want to switch him out. yeah, a lot of times you have kabuki dances in politics where, okay, we know our guy can t win with, but at least our guy, we could punt him out and put