time to know what happens there. it does, at least potentially, create another opportunity for republicans to pick up a senate seat next year. ruth? democrats already have a kind of daunting landscape ahead of them in the senate. need a lot of money if they re going to make that landscape a little more favorable to them. look at senator franken s first race, and you mentioned, andrea, how it took eight months to get that race resolved. this is a purple state, and keeping that seat in democratic hands even in a midterm election that might go against republicans generally is in no way a lock. lou ann tweeden, who is abc radio in l.a. has been on a radio show saying she never called for his resignation, that she accepted his apology, she didn t want him to resign. he apologized a bunch of times. she accepted that. he made an honest mistake. people are human, people make mistakes. i thought, if i came forward at