wife. interesting read. thank you for coming in. politics is increasingly polarized within the parties themselves. what do you see when you look at the political landscape right now, james? >> as one of the senior members on the commenting crew over the years, you know, i've seen a number of these midterm elections before, and what i actually realize is how much this resembles some other big wave elections we've seen before. would you like me to list some of them? >> sure. >> i have four in mind. one is 1974 when richard nixon resigned, was the so-called watergate baby's election where the democrats had huge gains both in the senate and the house, and people who were on the landscape for a long time like gary hart and patrick leahy, they made their way into the senate at that time. that was a big wave election. in '94, in bill clinton's term, you had a sort of -- you had the newt gingrich contract with