the three candidates we endorsed for statewide office, paul mcdonald for governor and others.wept and by convincing margins. i mean, it was a landslide in virginia. and i said of the 14 house of delegate race where is we had a campaign field rep working we won all 14 of them. if you expand that a little bit, larger and step back beyond just the campaign field representatives we won 95% of the house races we were involved in >> so let's do as we did when we concluded the legislative discussion. let's not to look at what our allies and our friends and our supporters say about the efficacy of our grassroots efforts. let's take a look at one of our opponent said. you've got to give it to them they've done a good job. they probably had more to do than anyone else in the fact we didn't win the house this time and they hurt al gore. our apologies to our friend pat griffin that was president bill clinton after the 2000 elections. a guy who authored and pushed through the brady bill, which we opposed, the antigun so-called assault weapons bill, that we opposed. who nonetheless said, yo