were able to settle their fish. i think part of it was that they basically improved their political situation in every state they fought in. look at the states where they had their real battle royale, north carolina, indiana, hillary clinton won about half of them. she won certainly all the big states except for illinois, yet in every case where she won, she didn t mess it up for obama. it is so interesting, this is worth studying in the annals of politics, how they both ran against each other on issues. let s remember the issues, the war in iraq, barack obama, as a state senator, opposed the war. senator clinton had voted for it with some caveats but had voted to authorize it and never really come back on that. so, that was a good issue to fight barks good democratic issue, where the president ended up being with most people in the party. then fight for things, as tim russert brought up, fighters of the new york process of spitzer s process of giving away driver s licenses to people t