The better. now troy wins a great victory during a very tough time of the year for voting. he will win big in november. so steve kornacki, let s talk about what happened last night. as mika referenced, this has been a republican seat since 1982 consecutively since john kasich won it. president trump less than two years ago won it by 11 points. first of all, the numbers here. is there a chance, with balderson up by 1,700 votes right now, with provisional ballots, with mail-in ballots, that that result changes, that o connor somehow comes out on top. the suspense here is extra weird on this one because you expect those provisional ballots there to break toward the democrat. you don t expect them to actually erase 1,754-vote republican lead. however, if the margin there were to cut that 1,754 in half which is not implausible then the overall victory margin for balderson would be under .5 points. by state law, if you re under .5 that s more generous than you ll see in some other ....