there have been court cases this year about early voting. so they really had a very honed-in, targeted message to this audience again, because as you pointed out, steve, they know how important north carolina has become in this election cycle. >> all right, chris jansing down there in winston-salem, north carolina. chris, thanks for that. again, that question, north carolina. hillary clinton could basically shut this whole thing down if she can win north carolina, and guess what, as chris was telling you, the election is already started there. people are already voting. this is a heavy early voting state. let me show you what information we have from north carolina. so so far more than 600,000 votes have been cast. what does that mean? that is about 15% of the total of all of the votes that were cast in 2012. this is a state where about half of all the votes in 2012 end up being cast early. what do you see here? there is a big advantage for democrats in terms of the ballots that have been cast so far. they are coming much more than from republicans and from