who sent him, plus i suppose quasi republicans and independents. that s a good point. i think for all those reasons, that s why he s playing it close to the vest andimpeach i think sheryl makes some good points there. joyce, you live down there in alabama. you know the state. what are your thoughts? so i think jones, who, you know, full confession, i worked for doug when he was the u.s. attorney in birmingham. i was a line criminal prosecutor. and i suspect that he ll play this trial a lot like he played his approach to criminal justice. which is to look at the facts, to look at the law. to make a decision on that basis and not on anything extraneous. so i don t think he ll look at this as a political matter. it s a pretty good assumption that he s a democrat running in alabama. and that he needs to appeal to his base. to democrats and to moderates. people like to say that no democrat has won a senate race