former treasury official and "morning joe" economic analyst steve rattner and national political correspondent for nbc news and msnbc news, is he still away, steve kornacki. joe, the guy's been up all night. look at him. >> up all night. these two poor candidates have been up not only all night but probably the last three weeks and think about what they're doing. they are fighting tooth and nail. they're giving everything that they have, all for the glory of winning a special election that will seat them in congress for about a month and a half, and then they have to do it again, and, of course, run for a full term in november, but mika, this is -- this race -- we don't know who's going to end up winning it. regardless of who ends up winning it, republicans certainly know as well as democrats that, i mean, this is another race where republicans have underperformed. they underperformed in the district that is deep, deep red. i mean, i'll talk to steve in a second. i think maybe democrats have won it once since the 1930s. but you see this same thing happening. they're bleeding. republicans are b