from nine sheriffs to republican and then from that you go to solicitors. a lot of people think these candidates should show up. from my standpoint, you get them on record early. you find out where they are and you start elected them, and in the south, the pro-life movement is the base of a lot of these elections, and it's a proud base that i'm with, but what i'm telling you is you all show up. politics doesn't change overnight. art pope's $2 million didn't change that. what really changed north carolina is an influx of people, retires. that's one thing. the second thing that changed was national democrat politics were not matching up. i ran the last cycle in north carolina when president obama had about 42 bricks and motars in there and we put about 450 people in there fighting that fight, and what we found out in north carolina is it was different. everybody was working persuadable voters. it was the republican base we