republicans. we've had this huge swing since. don't you think there's a lapover there? and if so, why don't you think the same lapover would apply to hillary? >> well one thing, i think the shutdown was an artificial bump. look david, i don't think we were ever going to carry that butch over into for several months. i still sort of like where we are in position right now better than they are, particularly when you see millions upon millions of americans actually begin to sort of sign up for health care and get to the points where even in reports today republicans are having some backtracking about what are they going to do about sort of repealing health care when millions of americans are on it and no more perfect example is this "washington post" article a couple of weeks back talking about kentucky. guess what? thousands of rural kentuckians who never had health care before and have never been voting democrat before all of a sudden are sort of now signing up for health care. what is sort of mitch mcconnell going to tell them? i'm going to take that away from you? it puts them in a tough position. >> one last point, too. one of the reasons hillary clinton enjoys a pretty decent