standing by. he's looking at the county by county mix in this because it's a big part of the state, the 12th district. you're going to see moves as they move from demographic to demographic. and the all-important battleground will be the suburbs. now, rebecca berg, o'connor's people are not going to like what they just saw happen on the big screen. what's their mood? >> reporter: no. well, they're certainly not going to be surprised, chris, by these jumps in the polls, and they are expecting tonight a very close race. as you mentioned, this is a republican district. a republican has represented this district in congress since 1940 for all about two years. so this is solid republican turf, and danny o'connor has certainly overperformed. democrats have overperformed. but over perfoperforming is not to be enough for them. they want to win this race. they want to send a message for democrats here in ohio and also national democrats going into the fall. and so we do expect, of course,