money. they are not well-known people so they have to spend more money than incumbent. >> shannon: both of the races we mentioned are very tight. recent careers, california hasn't been a republican hotbed. how are you going to change that for the fall? >> things have already been changing in california. we flipped san diego county from majority democrat county to republican republican county. fifth largest county in america and bigger than a dozen states. we registered more than 200,000 republicans in the state. for the first time in years we have seen the gap with republican and democrats in voter registration to narrow. democrats still have 2.3 million more members than we do in the state. but meg whitman, outstanding candidate for governor polling ahead of jerry brown. still going to be tight. and barbara boxer and carly fiorina in a statistical dead heat. it shows in a state where the democrats outnumber us by a substantial number, our candidates are proving