represent us, give us a choice. after the election results came in, what happened was unprecedented in terms of the volume of calls, the e-mails, the faxes, the facebook pages that popped up. the number of people who said, you have got to give alaskan voters a chance. so a write-in process is absolutely a part of that electoral process. i am listening to my constituents. that's what it's all about. it's not about trying to make the republican party happy. it's not about trying to make jim demint happy. it's trying to respond to the people of the state of alaska. i'm going to give them a choice. and if the people on november 2nd say, we don't like her, that's fine. but that's part of what we're doing here. that's part of the process as well. >> what do you think of senator demint and his efforts this election year to back tea party candidates, including your opponent? >> it's absolutely his right, it