of the trends are going to change where you're seeing a changing demgrographic in the area. >> a tough cycle this year? >> if you can turn them out, it's just like out west. that is a chain demographic with more aspects. >> remember after the presidential election, we were talking about how the republican party had been reduced to a southern, white male party. so the fact that they're going to take a lot of these seats back is really not surprising. those are probably the seats that democrats shouldn't have wanted anyway. >> winning virginia, winning north carolina, being more competitive, they thought it was perhaps a building block. >> it's a building block when we change the face of the electric. it goes back to the conversation we have been having all week. we won that on the obama surge that was blacker, browner, and larger. >> and don't forget, redistricting is coming up next