texas has been a strongly republican state for a long time. cruz is, you know, pretty effective at the cut and thrust of politics and he has a lot at his disposal, including a lot of money to try to take him down. but this is the kind of thing that indicates there could be a true blue tsunami that goes beyond re-taking the house and goes down to the state legislators and is a transformative election. i don't think we're there yet. i think democrats have this habit of kind of going on miller time, you know, going, okay, we got this in the bag. you know. all the signs, mike murphy is telling us on tv winter is coming. we don't have to dig deep in our pockets. we don't have to work that hard because this thing is done. and i think that would really be to misunderstand the history of elections and misunderstand recent elections where democrats have not turned out in midterms.