when the democrats tried to do this in michigan, when john dingell, powerful chairman, carl levin, united auto workers, and the governor, terry mcauliffe, democratic national chairman, said not on your life, and they ended it. that is what the republican leadership should have done, because iowa and new hampshire make sense. they gives the underdog, under- funded, dark horse candidate a chance to connect with real voters. >> these days there are so many big box. while we are not watching, except for the cognoscenti, there is an entire structure of the funding with these superpacs that is not only hundreds of millions of dollars, up secret money for the most part. >> in the end, is this a threat to democracy? >> no, it is not a threat to democracy, but it is real -- the border -- the voters are not really going to get a chance to hear from the candidates. from the standpoint of the republican party, having this in earlier in the year it is to their advantage. >> what the hell? get it over with early. if romney wins in new hampshire and iowa, is over and we can relax until august. >> you ca