matter here? we expected this to be very close, and likely, it will be. but you know, all of a sudden if you're looking at five points versus three points, it starts to make a bigger statement. >> it's breaking a bit of tradition here, because usually on election night, virginia, what happens is the republican candidate has a huge lead early on and then northern virginia comes in very late, if the democrats win, it all comes in late in the night. that's not happening now. but it also seems like northern virginia is actually just returning earlier than usual. and so, i mean, i think, look, the democrats, it was just assumed, sort of the default story out of tonight was the democrats are going to win virginia because virginia is now a democratic state. i think the idea in the run-up to the race as it tightened, the democrats one year into trump, and with trump's approval ratings where they are, that the democrats might lose this race and lose it to a candidate who ran on this set of issues that a lot of people in politics thought was toxic, so i think, you know, you have a lot of democrats slitting their wrists