let's bring in chris kofinas, msnbc contributor and former bush/cheney adviser, robert traynham.no republican party? >> well, i mean, if you look at the last four cycles, there's at least seven senates, delaware, indiana, missouri, even nevada where they were in a position to win and should have won, but didn't because the candidates were so out of touch from the mainstream, they ended up losing. this is a continuing problem that we see the republican party kind of suffer through, this internal civil war. that doesn't necessarily translate to an easy road for us, because if you look at a lot of the polling, there's pox in both houses among the electorate, but it definitely, i think, complicates the road for republicans who assume because it's midterm of a second term that they are guaranteed to pick up, you know, significant number of seats, whether in the senate or the house. >> you mention the polling, take another listen to what joe biden was saying, the vice president, today about support for some of the democrats' agenda. >> on every major issue, the american people agree wi