dough or whatever, the second most powerful democrat in the state behind mayor daily and now dale segoing out and madigan is on the top perch. last time madigan was not speaker was in the 1994 debockle. >> for one term. >> and the county assessor, bearios is running for that. >> clay says he's an independent and i think he picks up the phone to talk to daily from time to time. >> got about 45 seconds, the big national races. >> 45 seconds or less, can you talk about it. >> the big question is how big will democrats win the house. this is the way things are looking -- i'm sorry, how republicans will win the house and do they have a chance of taking the senate. probably not, but again, you've got a bunch of key races that are very tight, including in illinois. >> harry reed, absolutely. and out there, you can vote for none of the above. >> that's a great factor. >> we might do that in illinois. wouldn't that be great. >> i like it but another big race, he did everything president obama, bought into the liberal agenda and looks like he's going to go down. >> everybody's against them right no