doesn t run. certainly doesn t run for statewide or national office. if there s a lesson learned, to fit the candidate for the district. conor fit that district. secondly, charlie is right, there was a head wind out there. there s no question that donald trump is creating some problems across this country. i would add one other thing, to point to congress. the signature issue that the republicans ran on that motivated the republican base for the last four elections was to repeal and replace obama. not only did they fail last year doing it, but they ve given up doing it and they re poised here in the next couple weeks to pass a bailout of obamacare. that is a huge deflator of the base. if you look at what happened in this race, everyone talked about it through the entire course, the intensity on the democratic side was 20 points higher than on the republican side. why? because republicans are deflated because republicans aren t delivering on what they said they were going to do, and you