david winston is president of the winston group, a republican polling firm. over the years, he has advised republican congressional leadership. fred yang is a partner at the garin hart yang research group, a democratic polling firm. examine for us, gentlemen, the 2014 electorate, and tell me what stands out for you. >> well, i mean, first off, it was a very traditional off-year electorate. what that means is younger voters did not participate in the same level they normally do in presidential years. there wasn't that much of a drop-off in terms of minority vote that was expected. african americans dropped off by one from an on year to an off year and the spanish dropped off by two, but this was in many ways a typical off-year elexerate. >> ifill: antidemocratic or washington. >> it's hard to argue given what happened on tuesday there wasn't some anti-democrat voting but i think it was ultimately anti-washington, and an electorate that had run out of patience with what they perceive is the status quo, and since the democrats have the white house, we were the s