and they have created a situation in the state legislature where now democrats hold 16 seats, one short of a majority, and there is a maverick republican who voted against the governor on collective bargaining. creating a reality that we now have a collect -- procollective bargaining majority in the state senate. that doesn't end walker's reign, it doesn't check and balance him on every issue, it does suggest pretty clearly, that democrats have achieved a lot of their goals that they started out trying to get to. >> we should point out in these two districts, the money continued to come from the sky, did it not? >> there were more outsiders throwing money at this one. speak to that tonight, john, how intense was it? >> well, northern wisconsin, where jim holperin was just re-elect traditionally has small town politics, you campaign in