good to have you with us shanna adler, if i could start with you. and now midterms traditionally don't generate as much interest among voters in the us as presidential elections. but this time around it seems to be different. there does seem to be a lot more engagement talk to us about about why that is and what's at stake in this election. that's right. historically, the mid term elections are kind of a rating news or half of the electorate votes for the presidential election and even left boat during mid term. a midterm is kind of a referendum on how a sitting president is doing. it's in the middle of a term and the fact that where he was having a conversation a month out from a mid term, not a presidential election, is proof positive that this is things are different as time around. and not only that, usually when you're talking about mid term, the story peg is what are the whole said he like that kind of the sexiest thing that you can sort of begin the conversation with. and that is the least of at the time around. i mean, there are so many big