takes all type situation, which is what you had in the 2008 campaign. one of the reasons for these new rules is that a lot of republicans were disturbed by the way john mccain on super tuesday in february of 2008 just sort of came from nowhere and basically seized the nomination. so what you have now is almost by the rules dictated by them a much more drawn-out situation. i think romney is still the likeliest candidate. and i think no matter how well paul does in iowa, he has no chance of getting the nomination. but i do think you're going to see much more of a prolonged debate in the party over who the best not-romney is. who can best counter him, as we see these proportional delegate counts go forward. >> ana, step back for a second as we think about the big picture again. it does seem amazing that in the 21st century, we rely on a hand o ful of voters in handful of arguably unusual states that