. >> question from susan ferrechio. >> the democrats were able to get the majority four or five years ago. if you managed to stay in the majority for just two congresses. can you talk about why you think you were only able to stay in for 4 years. was this bad policy, bad politics, or bad luck? >> i do not think any of our policies were bad. i think our policies were as good as the environment within which you laid them out. they are also as good as the message that you lay out to further those policies. i believe that we, in 2010, failed the message and effectively. in 2010, our biggest and tight- of vote came from seniors. -- anti-vote came from seniors. they thought we did something we did not do. the difference in our winning and losing was the senior vote in those instances. the reason we lost it was because we failed to explain to seniors what we had done to medicare when we put the affordable care act in place. again, the affordable care act, to me, is something that most americans think should be done. you have all these other guys rallying against the program say they will rep