in terms of the funding, randy perkins made a lot of money and he's been under investigation and had to testify in congress for how he made his money and that's pretty interesting when you are allegedly taking advantage of the victims in how you do your business that is a e topic of campaign as you know. so the quality of the candidate, the character matters a lot. money isn't always the overriding decision-maker. if it were, then the edge they had against us in the last cycle would produce a different outcome than the record majority we were able to do so is the quality of the candidates and i would say for whatever set of reasons, the democratic committee failed to do good recruitment throughout almost the entire cycle and that left them with weak candidates in the race is, and they are struggling to try to create races now. when you are doing that you aree bound here away and it becomes harder and harder. >> there's been a lot of discussion about the strategy the republicans used arguing that bill clinton shouldn't be given a blank check the democratic congress. we've already seen

if hillary clinton wins statewide maybe that's going to help out randy perkins.t: taking your calls with kyle trygstad. sally is next in washington. good morning. good morning. i'm calling regarding arafat congressional race in eastern washington. held mcmorris rodgers has too long. is runninge american against her and has a strong grassroots campaign. although i don't know if any ads ive hit the airways because don't watch television. i listen to c-span on my phone. host: that is sally in washington. what can you tell us about that contest? caller: cathy mcmorris rodgers is a member of republican leadership. there's only about four doesn't competitive seats out there. this was one of the many that were redrawn after the 2010 census. it has really shrunk the map. host: can you explain the race rankings and how you do that? why you consider her to be safe in that seat? district youf the can look simply at the presidential numbers and see that mitt romney carried it by such a wide margin that it would take some sort of weird event to make it change party hands. we