>> not only did he win by 11 points. we should underscore this is a district that has not had a democratic representative in almost 40 years, before you were born, don. >> i wish. it really is remarkable. and the answer to why it's so close is in large part because of the energy that we have seen on the democratic side for a long time, but energy obviously only gets you so far when it's such a ruby red historically district. and in is a candidate who has done things right, focused on the local issues, the bread and butter issues, on the flip side, have you a republican candidate who in any other year would be fine. but he was a little slow on the uptake on seeing this big challenge coming his way. he had the reinforcements come, in the vice president, the president and others.