where there are three, four dozen african-americans in the house. and often they represent districts that are protected by the voting rights act, majority/minority districts and there's is an informal ceiling imposed by state democratic parties they view condition whose come from the districts not as electable statewide, there's a stigma attached to nap when you look at cory booker's story, jamelle, i'm curious what you make of it. comes from a majority black city, newark but the most popular democrat in new jersey, national rock star. what do you take from the booker story as a lesson nationally? mr. i think the booker story is ace confirmation, if you are black politician with national ambitions your first order of business to -- this will sound terrible -- get far out of your majority/minority area as quickly as possible. >> right. >> i think if you looked at barack obama, it's a very good thing in his political career that he lost the first house