the "washington post" david brodeur once admitted how this whole thing really works. communications system will not accommodate more than two or three candidates in each party. that task is beyond us. so we in the media to reduce the number of candidates. these news judgments will be arbitrary, but not subject to appeal. now david brodeur said that and was talking about the communications systems that existed in 1987. today we have the internet. we have more time on tv, and we have people making more content than ever before. but we have the same problem. look at the blogosphere and twitter, and you'll see a similar focus on the anointed candidates, cain one week, dwrich the next. it's not the medium on this one. it's the people. now, of course, do i think real reforms could change some of these problems. could you fix the voting calendar and, of course, could you reduce the role of money as we've talked about on this very show, but for all those reasons over the next few months i think it's probably going to get a lot more annoying before it gets any better. dylan. >