overwhelmingly conservative party in the terms of the way their voters describe themselves when you ask, do you think you're a conservative, moderate or liberal 'the democratic party is not a mirror image of that. and even now with self-defined liberals at a historic high in the democratic party, they're only about half of democratic partisans and democratic primary voters. the other half of that democratic electorate is people who consider themselves moderate or even conservative. and when you go out in the early primary states and you talk to voters, these are, you know, you have to think they're hard core activists. they're going to presidential candidate events a year before voting even starts. they're very enthusiastic committed democrats, and yet a lot of them will tell you, you know, certainly many of them will say oh, yes, i'm very liberal, i want a candidate who supports a liberal agenda. or a lot of them will tell you, no, i want someone who can speak to the middle, who can bring the two parties together. and so there is an opening in that field for someone who isn't