i have given up thinking about these kinds of elections, congressional elections, literally for decades, for the following reason. you got to be 40 years old in this country, when i was about 40 years old, without ever having seen that republicans control the house of representatives. [laughs] -- ever in my lifetime, okay? and then, in 1994, the republicans won the house, and they win the senate in what is bill clinton's first midterm election was. here's who predicted that. not a living soul. [laughs] -- no one predicted that the republicans are gonna win the house for the first time in 40 years, and no one predicted that the 57 democrats in the senate were the next day going to become the minority. no one predicted it. and i was working in the senate at that time. i had to move from a big office and the majority side, to a cubicle on the minority side of the building. and i knew then what william goldman and the great screenwriter headset about show business years before that, no one knows anything. and so, eight predictive, the predictive elements of tonight's discussion, i will listen to. i have nothing to contribute. >> i, mean what you are all