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Because the wrong track numbers were pretty high under obama, too. but clearly, as david said, you can see a wave building in a number of states. the white house also, this has been a big complaint for a while, they don't have a really in-depth political operation. so you have a president who basically guides his own experience through instinct. and he did -- he's a very, very reactive politician. everything is sort of by sight and by sound at these rallies that he was going to daily during the campaign. he's up to maybe once a month at this point. so he has to rely on sort of a seeing-eye dog...

And if you are mitch mcconnell and if you are paul ryan, you are getting very nervous about holding your majorities. >> scott, do you see this as a movement against the president? or as some sort of a wave building? >> certainly there's a movement among democrats who are very angry about having lost the presidential election to get it together and turn out and vote. that's clearly what happened. and i think president obama's last-minute intervention with african-american voters clearly had an effect on the turnout, which helped in alabama. i think maggie's right, there's a lot of circumstances...

She also made history herself that year, when she became the first woman ever to take the gavel, to become speaker of the house. and then just two years later, 2008, it was democratic president, barack obama, making history of his own, defeating john mccain, one of those moments that will forever give democrats warm fuzzy feelings, for good reason. but you know what, that was not just president obama's night. after their big year that they had just had two years earlier in 2006, that night, election night in 2008, that was the second democratic wave building on the gains from two years earlier...

Leader in the house, nancy pelosi, she got a lot of credit for what happened with democrats that year. she also made history herself that year, when she became the first woman ever to take the gavel, to become speaker of the house. and then just two years later, 2008, it was democratic president, barack obama, making history of his own, defeating john mccain, one of those moments that will forever give democrats warm fuzzy feelings, for good reason. but you know what, that was not just president obama's night. after their big year that they had just had two years earlier in 2006, that night, e...

These were the final numbers, that year in 2006, democrats picked up six governorships, six senate seats, 31 seats in the house. not a single democratic incumbent lost a seat in 2006. not one. first time that's ever happened. and of course, the democratic leader in the house, nancy pelosi, she got a lot of credit for what happened with democrats that year. she also made history herself that year, when she became the first woman ever to take the gavel, to become speaker of the house. and then just two years later, 2008, it was democratic president, barack obama, making history of his own, defea...