that s the sort of quirkiness of a caucus is that a lot of people, you know, particularly the media gets hyped up about iowa on caucus night but those that s just a beauty contest effectively. it is just sort of okay, check the pulse of folks and how they feel. those delegates won t be awarded until they go to their convention this spring. they have their primary after the fact. yeah. congressman, it is hard to call iowa a beauty contest. point taken. i have a question for you. isn t it really i mean, if you seems to me that this really all boils down to delegates but there is a question of perception as well. if you go back to 2008, for example, look at ohio and look at georgia in the democratic primary contest hillary rodham clinton received more of the popular vote than barack obama did but he got more delegates than she did. happened in a number of places. there was a lot of excitement. i, frankly, like this process because we can you know, who