in the midterms. and we have to go up against this massive obama machinery in 2012. we just have to have a professional organization. >> let me let donna weigh in. in all of your years in politics, have you ever seen a party dump a chairman that has helped the parties have the historic gains at midterm elections, earlier elections in virginia, massachusetts, republican wins, win after win after win for the republicans and that's not good enough, they want to dump michael steele. have you ever seen anything like that, any gratitude like that before? >> no, i have not. and that's the reason why i think michael steele is still the front-runner to keep his job. regardless of all of the other people ma mary mentions, i know a lot of them very well, including ann wagner and others that are going to compete against michael but he still has a lot of grass root support across the country. you need, i believe, about 168 votes on the republican national