if you look in nebraska also last night in omaha and its suburbs douglas and sarpy counties in lancaster lincoln which is a college educated audience, she ran better than a quarter of the vote and she has been out of the race for going on two months. but look, let's step back for a minute. what is the purpose of the vice presidential candidate? maybe to unite the party, may be to appeal to a special group, maybe it is to add some patina to the presidential candidate. but i will tell you, i have been moved by a book called " do running mates matter" with every bit of data to see what really matters and they find only one things matter from a political perspective and that is what does the vice presidential candidate do to reinforce the image of the presidential candidate as being a good president? that is to say if you pick somebody who people say well, the vice presidential running mate, ronald reagan pyxis principal who has been an ambassador to china and the u.n., cia res director and respd member of congress and they say that george w. bush says things about ronald reagan. a strong, c