you know, to address that point, you know, number one, exit polling shows that my opponent, mike cassel, was declining in the polls. and before my party's attack against me, i was ahead in the general election and had a 2 to 1 advantage over the coveted independents. in delaware there are almost as many independents as there are republicans. so when you have a 2 to 1 advantage, if you can secure your base and get out to the polls polls and have a 2 to 1 advantage with the independents, you can win. so until we started infighting, if we had modeled what they did in kentucky, i believe we would have had a republican this that seatment but, you know, there were some surprises. i remember the day after the primary, "good morning, america," wanted to talk to me, and my publicist saw they had george stephanopoulos interviewing me. and they're like, no way! i was like, come on, i can handle it. but george stephanopoulos is very fair, i mean, very fair. and even when he had on my opponent, and i talk about this in the book in one of the pictures. i talk about how my democratic opponent, chris c