would be so significant? because south carolina s one of the most republican states in the country by far. i don t really think that barack obama is going to win south carolina at the end of the day when november 7th finally comes around. i should point out, thomas, i m not really predicting that this is going to happen. it s plenty early for predictions yet. but i am saying that given the current state of the republican primary and the disarray and the changing polls and everything that you and mark just referenced, they re in trouble. they re in a mess. and the interesting thing is this barack obama s only at 44% in the polls. that s pretty anemic. you would think a president incumbent at 44% could easily be taken out. but then when you go look at polls like the one you just mentioned, south carolina, that same poll had a florida set of numbers in which obama was pretty comfortably ahead of both romney and gingrich, i ve seen polls from arizona where obama leads both romney and g