because of their true real conservative beliefs that they think have been violated in bachmann s case, for example, by the perry mandate on taking a vaccine. in romney s case by all sorts of things including the health care mandate in massachusetts. if you re perry and romney, you have to be praying for those two to drop out. i don t know about dropping out or any sort of prayer involved there. balk pan in particular has taken every opportunity she can to reinsert herself in the conversation. today what she did with perry care, everybody was talking about that. her attacks on perry and romney come off as very sharp, authent authentic. she knows what she s doing. she has people working for her and decent political instincts. perry seems to be weathering these attacks. his standings have not dropped in the polls. this is continuing to be a very close race. jonathan is exactly right about the independents who are going