hoyer and elyjuh couple mings. they tried to paint the picture this was a national wave that brown got caught up in. mikeler, the head of the senate in an nap sis, maryland, also said the same thing. hoeing gachb caught a wave and rode it. really i think it comes down to the candidate, that proun probably didn't run a very good campaign. i talked to folks in prince george's county which he ended up winning. there wasn't a lot of spark that folks thought this was the guy that was going to take us there. maryland may not be quite as blue as we think it is beyond baltimore city, prince george's county and montgomery county. >> to keep nautical metaphors tlrks might have been a wave. but the democrats created quite a bit of undertow. i was talking to senator car den earlier. he admitted they didn't get their message. they had the right message and didn't get it out. more than that, they didn't get the base out, the people that would vote. by implication, the campaign -- he wouldn't say lieutenant brown, he said lieutenant governor brown. he said the campaign failed. i think that's what most people thought. >