comcast, building america's largest gig-speed network. all right. now, up on the screen you're going to see over the course of the night what the state of play is. the democrats need 23 states to flip the house. one of the reasons we're watching ohio tonight is if danny o'connor pulls off an upset, and it would be a major upset in that 12th district race, it goes down to 22. still a lot of wood to chop for the democrats. but if they don't win this one, it's equally as impressive. let's bring back john king right now, the guru, because since i last spoke to you, this race has flip-flopped twice. >> and it could in the course of this conversation again. when you went to break, the republican was ahead. you come out of break, the democrat is ahead by 1,018 votes.