up for romney against john mccain and mccain still won. first of all, joe, romney i m sorry, mccain had no class distribution in his support. he ran exactly the same among blue-collar wine track voters and beer track voters. romney tilted slightly upscale, but i think what hurt romney the most was that the division of the vote was more right of center than left of center as giuliani faded away, all those voters moved to mccain when you had thompson and especially huckaby remaining. in fact, romney had fairly broad appeal, it just wasn t deep anywhere. i think if you had a palin race, palin becomes kind of the fulcrum of that race and you do see a much sharper class of eyes in the republican party since not only 2008, but probably ever before. much as obama s win showed as a class race for the democratic party was changing, think palin whether she wins or not would show how the class of the