here to help map it out for us, nathan gonzalez, deputy editor of the "political report" and a writerall," and david wasserman, author of "the cook political report." >> thanks for the shout-out. >> remarkable stuff there. let's get into it. i've got the ipad art th texas. >> it's the home state of pete sessions there's been a lot of pressure on republicans to draw a map that gives a lot of the four new seats in texas to republicans. republicans drew three out of the four, but this could be the first skirmish between the perry administration that signed the republican map into law and the obama justice department which objects to it because there aren't enough seats for latinos. the next court hearing is on halloween. republicans are spooked that their map could backfire. >> a big moment where and how minority districts should be created. nathan, let's move to ohio. another big state, but a state losing seats. >> ohio's a good example of even when the map is done and completed, the game may not be over. ohio's losing two seats because of reapportionment and population loss. >> right.

. >> nathan gonzalez has been tracking this race very closely. he joins me now. nathan, a week ago you were on this show saying democrats are favored. tomblin had all of the apparatuses behind him from labor and also chamber of commerce. right at the last minute the rga because they have no other money to spend in mississippi, kentucky, louisiana threw a whole bunch of money here to play the obama card and it appears to be working. >> that's right. at the time just one week ago all of that was true. but there was this high number of undecided voters. republicans thought this is our time to go in and fill a vacuum, particularly in the d.c. market. as you said earlier, this ad is running statewide. with the public polling, we have one public poll that's out since then. it's showing that the numbers have closed. this is now an even race. there isn't any private polling because it's so late in the race right now and the parties can't make any strajic decisions. i think this has to be laid at the feet of the president. there was nothing else going on. tomblin had a man