now they had 45 days with no excuse early voting. early reports, as i think steve suggested, may show there was greater turnout today in some of those northern virginia areas that are important to a democratic win. so i wouldn't be surprised if things don't quite shape up the way the polls have suggested. if some of what we're seeing this early is accurate. >> say more. you're more optimistic that the cautious optimism expressed by the democratic chairman or less? >> right now, from what i'm seeing, i'm a little more optimistic, but we don't have visibility into these numbers. and it could be that we see low propensity republican voters turn out in greater numbers, the way we saw in south texas, for instance, and surprised a lot of people in the november 2020 election. that could be going on. i'm just saying that from what we see right now, the very early reports in terms of the economy