i'm here with nalini, and joss mcintosh, the communications director for emily's list. why does this problem exist, why does this gap exist, and is it fixable? >> absolutely. it is true that historically democrats come out in smaller numbers in midterm elections, but we have never played with this hand before. we were dealt something in 2012 that we frankly have not seen. we had historic gender gaps. more women turned out -- that was the one demographic that you left out. 10 million fewer women voted in 2010 than in 2008, and that was one of the big reasons why we saw the republican wave. those women, and i work for an organization that only works to elect pro-choice democratic women. that's all we do. our membership quintupled over the 2012 cycle. that is an astronomical level of political engagement and we need to take it through. >> here's the question, though. why was it there was such a dip between 2010 and 2012. and nalini, you work on