we should stress you re an encyclopedia on that. at that point, president-elect was unpopular and john kerry, 6 to # points ahead. there are a few examples this year of republican candidates, senator hellers from nevada, not going to the republican national convention. so there s about five of them. but if you look at the amount of democrats not going to the democratic national convention, we re well over a dozen candidates and those elected running for reelection. there s more to come, this is a very high number. if you re the president and get reelected, do you remember the folks who dissed in. in some cases i think he probably encourages them to i think in claire mccass cal as case he probably suggests she doesn t. he wants to retain the senate if he wants to get anything done. it s his advantage to have those do what they have to do to stay in office.