these -- this is another story about the divisions within the republican party. so many of these potential candidates are seen as potential spoilers for the republican, specifically democrats are relatively unified. although ironically the two independents in the senate caucus with the democrats, it is the democratic party that's relatively unified. and to reed's point, the independents always get called a spoiler, but from their point of view, all they need is a platform and then they can sell what they have to say. >> what are you seeing in house races? are you seeing this bubble up, that there are more people just filing and that in itself -- so these ballots are getting more crowded? >> i think nts some way similar to the senate that in some of these races that could be very close, you could have the third party candidate taking enough votes allowing someone to win -- >> 20, 25 house races where you're going to see -- >> we only have about 50 total competitive house races. >> i have a theory that we're going to see more -- in the