in your piece, like the ways in which the public supports some abortion regulations, how they oppose late term abortions, support parental consent, thing like that. the problem of course is that they're kind of rolling the dice here because for a lot of republican kanld dames this isn't about tactics. this is about principles. these are things people believe in. so there might not necessarily be on message when they're talking about this issue this year. >> dana, you spoke with the rnc chairman talking act the focus on this issue, abortion. what did he have to say? >> a lot of what peter just said specifically about the fact there are republican candidates out there who are getting pummeled by democrats because of this war on women focus which democrats think is a winning focus for them and that republicans do need statistics to fight back especially on issues that do poll pretty poorly for democrats on some abortion-related issues. i asked him about that. isn't there a danger in republicans being too aggressive on an issue that is divisive