but as a pure house number, it doesn't really mean that much to me. >> so a year after a presidential election as we all know, political geeks at least know, these are the important races that everybody is watching. new york city's mayor, but then on a broader level, there is new jersey governor, this year, there is also a new jersey senate race, not normally the case, then there is virginia governor. >> right. >> is this affecting those races in any way that you can see? >> yeah. i think terry mcauliffe moved -- democratic candidate in virginia, actually moved into an almost double digit lead. it's over last week or so. so a lot of people are pointing at the government shutdown. he was a few points ahead, now he's 9, 10, 11 points ahead. that's an issue. i think what you're seeing, i hope what we'll see in the next few days is more and more republicans who do run state-wide, republican senators