repedeiated and it was just an embarrassing belly flop. it was called an hour after polls closed and since they're not going to do the postmortem, we feel duty bound to do it for them. he's a republican strattiest, former chair of the california republican party. in this recall election he was advising kevin faulkner, moderate republican candidate to replace governor newsom, who yes, you're not underreading that statistic there got 9% of the vote in the recall. what's your postmortem if you've got to go in and give your power point about what went on here? >> i think there are four things you cannot do in a recall election. the first is don't polarize the electorate when you're in the minority. second, don't allow the alternative to become the issue. number three, don't activate your opponent's base except on purpose. and number four, don't suppress your own vote. and i think those are four things that we saw occur during the course of the campaign,