nobody had ever heard of, called george pataki. and that was a republican wave year in 1994. and this wasn't a federal election. this was just in new york state. so the beltway actually didn't lose its mind very much over mario cuomo, losing that election. so he doesn't get a check mark there, but that's mostly because the beltway was losing its mind about everything else that was happening in 1994. he gets some of those check marks, but not beltway losing its mind and i don't think anybody cried. four years later, this was a great one, 1998 in vermont, this was pat leahy's senate seat from vermont. but the big shocker here was in the republican primary for that seat. 1998, a guy named jack mcmullen was a zillionary who moved from massachusetts to vermont, expecting that basically his welcome gift for arriving in the state would be that he'd be handed the wide-open republican nomination in the senate race to