the republican party was late to the taeble about defining him. conor had done a great job insulating himself. he's a marine. he's good-looking. he's got a great family name. he says i'm catholic. he says all the right things. the social conservative sort of things. talk about climate change in a coal area and a gas area. he ran the district and was the right candidate for them to run and i keep coming back to the fact 25,000 more registered democrats, you can say it's a republican area, yes it votes republican in national elections and yes it voted for tim murphy for all those years. there's still democrats down there and he is a democrat they can vote for. >> a democrat to vote for republicans though. it's misleading i think to say that. because the last time there was a democrat in that seat was 15 years ago or something. i mean, it's not -- you can't really compare those things. this wasn't even on the radar for the democratic party. this was not a place they even saw as being in play.