steele will participate in the january 3rd forum that will include all the rnc candidates, so it will be quite a show. let me ask you about fund raising. we re looking at the fund raising for 2010. if you look at the midterm cycle, the rnc raised $192 million during steele s tenure. that was down from $243 million in 2006 midterms, and they ended the cycle $15 million in debt. is money the real concern? money is the whole issue. if you heard about the december 1st debate, money was the soap topic. it was first, second and third. ian wagner had said money is the big thing. they talked about donors whose funds were dried up, said they weren t even asked to give to this rnc. and, you know, some of the other republican committees were fund raising off of michael steele. the republican governor s