candidates. it's going to be much harder for republicans to recruit decent candidates. and then there's going to be a fair number of members of congress who are looking at this, looking at john boehner and saying, wow, he looks really happy to me. i need this in dealing with all these crazy people like i need a hole in the head. i'm out of here. and not for nothing. when you look at the election, in the last 118 years only three times has the incumbent president's party picked up seats in the first midterm. they've lost seats in every other midterm. so even if donald trump was doing well, he's structurally facing some real significant headwinds coming into the race. >> wow. joe. >> you know, peggy, also it seems this election was election once again where voters went out and didn't so much vote for a party or for a candidate than