the power back. it's one of these issues where the voters are basically going to put a check on president obama. they're not voting to put republicans in as much as putting a check on that. they don't trust either party, over the last 20 years, both parties have lost market share, more independents are registered and the end result, republicans have curled up into a pretty red ball and democrats into a pretty blue ball and a lot of others have left the parties and participation. >> we're moving towards the most significant change election in quite some time. this is going to be more substantial than 1994 but eric summed it up brilliantly. this is not necessarily a one cycle wave. this can be a two-cycle wave and if that is the case, we're going to see the most substantial gains by any modern day party in two cycles than we've ever seen before. >> i know eric stands on this. we've talked about it for months, he'd rather be in the minority and have people of principle, senator demint said that on the program yesterday.