senate district 37 looked like last year when donald trump won by about 40 points. clinton pulling 27%. here's the same district tuesday night, when a democrat won the district senate seat in a special election. and i have to notice, not just any democrat, allison ikly freeman is a 26-year-old lesbian. she won by just 31 votes in a campaign heavy on turning out progressive voters, which ones there are, and while the special election turnout was low, this is still a striking flip. and it's hardly the only piece of good news for statehouse democrats this year. the list of seats flipped in state legislatures includes 15 seats in virginia, four seats in new jersey, four seats in oklahoma, two in georgia, four in new hampshire, and one each in washington, florida, and new york. tara dar dell is a democratic strategist and cornell belcher is a an msnbc analyst to discuss whether this looks like the beginning of a wave. as a pollster, what are you looking at right now? >> well, you know, it's -- and i was deemed pollster back in --