third, campaigns do matter, and congressional democrats have been pparing for what we knew would be a topps -- a tough cycle from the very binning of last year. unlike 1994, when a lot of democrats will come up the day after the election, caught by surprise, no one is going to be surpsed this time. people have been preparing, and that preparation is calling to be successful. let me delve a little deeper into each of these points. i will focus primarily on the choice, the troy is that american voters face, because they are going to be going into those voting booths and it will have a choice between two and sometimes more candid. there are many differences between 2010 and 1994. you hear republicans talking a lot about 1994, when newt gingrich and the republicans up more than 50 seats. in 1994 the american people saw congressional republicans as a viable alternative to the democrats. the polls today indicate that is simply not the choice. when asked if they had more confidence in the congressional democrats or congressional republicans to make the right decisions for the country, the ju