michigan, with john dingell, a powerful chairman, carl levin, the united auto workers, the governor, terry mcauliffe democratic national chairman, said not on your life. they ended it. that is what the republican leadership should have done, because iowa and new hampshire give the underdog, dark horse candidate a chance to connect with real voters and a chance to overcome the big bucks candidates. >> while we are not watching, except for the cognoscenti, there is an entire new structure of funding that is going up with these superpacs that is not only hundreds of millions of dollars, it is 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 -- it means the voters will not really get a chance to hear from the candidates. from the standpoint of the republican party, the department is earlier in the year, it is did -- their advantage if you had this early in the year, is to their advantage. >> what the hell? get it over with early t. if he wins iowa and new hampshire, we could just relax until august. >> you can start attacking