larimer: he did, more so in a presidential year man a midterm fap that's a bit unpushl. that's one that political scientists need togo look at because the fundamentals of the district in terms of party registration, those things suggested that blum was in trouble and the national pundits had this picked as a top five race to flip and it didn't and by a large margin. we need to go back and look at what does the rural vote count, if pollsters were undersampling rural voters, did that happen in this race? if you lock outside of dubuque and linn counties, were rural votes up? defeat to mike grunstall in the legislature for i believe over 35, 36, 37 years and the majority leader for the last 11 years. that started a wave that let the republicans take totally control of the legislature. >> dr. larimer: again, this felt like -- when you look at the map of iowa, it looks like a midterm election year. turnout is up by an appreciate year, but you see a lot of counties very red. senator gronstal losing, th democrats. he's one who blocked a lot of issues in the senate, particularly