good example. al gore won by 2,000 votes and george bush in 2004 by 10,000. going into the general next year, there is two data points that show how competitive iowa will be. one is, since barack obama was elected president, iowa democrats have lost 10% of their registered voters in this state and iowa republicans have increased. we have had 29 straight months of republican republican stragi gains. i think we can whittle the rest of it down to near parody with the caucus process. i think today i saw numbers out that 61% of the independent voters in iowa disapprove of the president s handling of the economy. what is your base line turnout goal for the caucuss? i would be disappointed if we didn t increase off the 115,000 that we had january of 2008. and given the enthusiasm we have seen in the republican party over the last two and a half years, the fact that there is no