>> yes, a handful of the competitive districts where the republicans are having diffic t difficulty wherehave voted for obama in the past and went for trump in 2016. in the last month, they have polarized the map further, because the republicans are recovering the ground in the trump districts, and the democrats are stretching the lead in clinton district, and the important part of maine is that bruce polliquin is trailing, and so it is maybe an exception to the rule. >> and the senate, the thinking is that the republicans will hold on to the senate and maybe expand the lead there, and what do you make of that? >> well, it is a tale of two midterm, because the senate is going to be decided by red rural states and the house by the suburbs, so i will give you this stat that we worked up a couple of months ago. if every single election result on election night were an eight-point uniform swing from the hillary clinton and donald trump run, the democrats would simultaneously gain 44 seats but lose four senate seats, and so it is amazing how close we may be to that outcome right now. >> and st