three, in states where they won in a midterm but it's been going democratic in presidential years. these are folks who really have to present themselves as moderates in order to be successful politically in their states. and this vote really is not consistent with being moderate at all. it puts you to the right of 75% of your constituents. >> that to me is what i think is significant. i think i underestimated, the policy indications and people do support background checks. i don't think that's really controversial. but the question is, how intensely do they care about that? and one of the things i think happened in the wake of this vote was that there was enough attention put on the vote and the names of people who voted against it and the popularity of the measure itself that it said something about that senator as in terms of their character. what kind of senator they are. whether they're just a craven kept coward who doesn't do what the majority of their constituents want because they're scared of the big bad nra or whether they have the guts to take on the nra. and that character issue seems to be resinating in a way i