laylala, is this recruitment successor failure, because donna doesn t speak spanish. i think the democrats underestimated the leadership and the recognition that maria salazar has in southern florida. she is a very well-known tv anchor. she is cuban-american. a good chunk of the electorate in that district is cuban-american. she is committed to the cause of cuba. cuban-americans in southern florida are not very happy with democrats in terms of the position towards cuba. so i think they underestimated her. and the last poll i saw, she is ahead by two points, within the margin of error, but i think she is a fantastic candidate. she is very charismatic. how many do you think the democrats missed in this landscape that could shift the strategy or are there so many toss-up districts? democrats did a fantastic job of recruiting candidates if you