What you have in this type of environment is that when rallies fail or even stall, people say it's just time to dump.

(Rite Aid has) new management. They've made some mistakes in the past both in terms of communication- or accounting-type problems that derailed the stock. Also, fundamentally they over-expanded, ... But I think those are primarily behind them.

The bears came out this week and didn't spook everyone off. When the market was too weak, there were buyers and as long as there are buyers on weakness we're OK.

When we got to a certain point of weakness there were buyers and that's been one of the characteristics of the market recently ? the re-emergence of the 'buy on dips' crowd. It's a more disciplined crowd but they are certainly nibbling at excessive weakness and that's a good undertone.

It also pays dividends for our state. When we have some type of national disaster or a manmade disaster, we can get video fairly quickly.

Are you going to see Republicans in difficult races having [Bush] come for rallies? No. You will see him do rallies for people who are not in trouble, or whom he can't harm.