for governor of maryland. we start with chris jansen. what are you seeing and what are you hearing? >> i covered a lot of off-season races, i don't remember intensity like we're seeing on the ground in virginia today. months ago nobody would have thought this race would be down to a dead heat, but it turned out to be not just intense, but incredibly expensive. most expensive governor's race. more and more ads. having said that, the math definitely favors terry mcauliffe, right? take where i am in loudoun county, we call it the ep p i epicenter of the epicenter of the suburban vote. ralph northam won by almost 20 points here. one of the things that they're looking at closely is can the terry mcauliffe campaign match or come close to some of those numbers from 2017? so the math is there. this is a county, for example,