um, didn t get briefed properly. this is not a big deal, what it gets to i think, is all of these people have their surrogates out. i got a big list from mitt romney the other day aaron shock, i m sure no one in iowa knows, a congressman from illinois, going around the state. does any of this surrogate stuff matter at all or is it just ways to fill up our pages and our websites until the vote? well, i think that surrogates tend to matter most when they say something spectacularly bad. thank you, joe arpaio. that doesn t quite rise to the level. but the candidates sure act as though it matters. you know, political scientists keep saying endorsements don t matter but the candidates sure keep wanting to get them. remarkable. in a way, we have seen mitt romney, rue mesh mentioned he rolled out endorsements, chris christie, tim pawlenty, george