go to outside st. louis, east into illinois, and we have jason plumber. jason plummer is running for a seat that has not had a republican in years. >> jerry costello's seat. >> it sure is. two key states that will tell me early on where we are as a party. our messaging and how we're going to do throughout the night. >> let me ask you about a couple -- a couple seats that, you know, if new hampshire, you're not holding on to those seats is that an indication of this night's not going as well as you thought? that staying in the northeast? >> you know, it is hard to say. that would be an indication to me that then mitt romney would not be doing as well. those are both very competitive, very tight places, directly out of the boston markets they get a lot of massachusetts tv and mitt is not doing well in massachusetts. but i would say that i expect charlie will win those seats. we know they're very close. when you go into other traditional areas or