so that could happen. it is maybe a little bit less likely. third, maybe kavanaugh fails, maybe there is a hearing, the professor is extremely compelling. republicans won't vote for him. this is -- we're starting to get into worst case scenarios for republicans because they would have to maybe try to find a new nominee before election day. that would be really hard, traditionally it takes months to get through this process. remember kavanaugh was from july 9. so maybe after election day if republicans win it is not that big a deal, they would just confirm somebody new in the lame duck session. if democrats won and they tried to push somebody through after election day, it would be a huge uproar and that takes us to after election day and january 3, if democrats take control of the senate which is still a huge if, many ifs going on here, maybe they would try to find a