national profile is joe biden if he decides to get in. but do democrats risk what republicans had with 17 candidates on stage dividing up the field and someone like donald trump coming to the fore? do democrats risk having everybody knock each other off and some outsider or someone who is not the best equipped to confront donald trump? get the nomination. you have to remember, donald trump won and so that competition actually led to a candidate who could defeat secretary clinton and so competition at this stage is good. the idea competition is best, but i think that there is going to be a lot of dialogue and a lot of discussion between now and the nominating convention, and we may end up going into that convention without a nominee which would really create a lot of excitement and so what happened, i think, with donald trump is there was all this excitement on the republican side and this kind of foregone conclusion on the