virginia's off off-year elections, means the election is not held during a presidential election and not during a midterm year and it's kind of a swingy state in some ways the state acts as a bellwether for public sentiment. that would not be ununusual, this pendulum is what democratic politics look like in liberal democracies all over the world. you've got examples of some political leaders, german chancellor angela merkel who just stepped down or brazil's former president who's going to be running again that have been known to building lasting political coalitions that last years durably but for the most part what happens in france, italy, the u.k., swing back and forth, left and right with regularity. u.k. has had the conservative party file now. you've got this competitive back and forth system of elections. it's just how political gravity works in a democracy. in some ways, at least in the abstract, when you take a step back, it's how you want them to work. you want competitive parties, single party rules, not a sign