335: Finally, Dems In Array with Jim Gerstein
Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt
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🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Politics World War Room with James Carville and I'm Al Hyde. This week, our guest is the founding partner of CBAO Strategies, one of America's great pollsters, Jim Gerstein, and |
| 0:23.6 | boy, do we have a lot to talk about. Remember, we love taking your questions. So write to |
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| 1:05.3 | Our guest is one of America's preeminent pollsters, |
| 1:09.0 | a friend of this podcast, Democrat Jim Gerstein. Jim, ever |
| 1:13.5 | since the last presidential elections, Democrats have been really gloomy. Looking at Tuesday's |
| 1:20.8 | blowout for Democrats across the country, New Jersey, New York, California, Georgia, Pennsylvania, |
| 1:29.9 | Virginia, it's awful hard to be gloomy. Happy days may be here again as the chorus. Jim, did you expect a sweep of this magnitude |
| 1:36.6 | and what does it mean? Well, first, thanks, Al. Great to see you guys. I, most of the people in my world were not surprised by the fact that we won these elections. |
| 1:49.7 | I think the magnitude of the victory, the size of the victory was a little bit larger than many of us expected. |
| 1:58.6 | We did think that this was, this has all the markings right now of a blue wave, |
| 2:05.2 | all the indicators that you would see in the odd year leading into the midterms are good. |
| 2:13.9 | And we had all these special elections in 2025 that we were outperforming in |
| 2:19.0 | 2024 by 10, 15 points, big races too, like the Wisconsin State Supreme Court race. |
| 2:27.0 | So this wasn't a surprise, but it really feels good. |
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