Hey everybody. Welcome to the Muckrick podcast. I'm Jared Yates Sexton. I'm here at Nick

Houseman, by the way, who is ready for our election night show. He got a sweet new haircut.

I'm just going to go ahead and break the news. I did. You know, I was needed to be done. I

twirl my hair when it gets too long and it needs to be, I can't do that anymore.

Well, he is ready i am ready

uh tomorrow night that is tuesday november 8th election night the midterm elections a reminder

we are going to be broadcasting live at 8 p m eastern along with democracyish uh we're going to have

that on the youtube channel and we will send out more information on that,

links, all that good stuff, plan on coming out. This right here, this episode, which is going to

come out on Tuesday, is going to be the official Muckrake podcast Midterm Election Preview Show.

Nick, can you feel the excitement, the lightning, if you will?

If you want to call it that, okay, it doesn't feel like that. No, let me just, you know,

full disclosure, I did a three day, three day juice cleanse last week. I am now eating really

clean. So I'm feeling really weird. I don't know if you've ever done this and feel strange. Like I just feel like, you ever fasted for like 24 hours and you kind of have that? I almost have that feeling. Not that it's like starving hunger feeling. I just don't feel right. And so, I know, and I haven't introduced red meat. I haven't introduced any kind of complex carb or actually not the complex, the bread kind

of carbohydrates. So I haven't done any of that. My body is like, what the fuck, man. And on top

of that, you're dealing with like existential dread of the political socioeconomic situation.

Yes. And then the list keeps going, but let's stop there. It keeps going. So what we're going

to do on this show, we're going to go through the major races. When I say major races, listen, we're not going through house races. We're political sickos. Some could even say, based on the research analysis we do and the focuses we do, that we are sadomasochistic. We do not hate ourselves that much. Is that fair, Nick?

Right. Well, because otherwise we have to be studying like Bobert's race and Marjorie Taylor Green's race. And I don't think we could do that. Marjorie Taylor Green's going to win her race. Lauren Boebert, man, would it be great if she lost? Oh, my God, would that be wonderful? I don't see it happening, but it would be great. Yeah. Listen, we don't wish ill on anybody, but that would be nice. Yeah, and I'll go ahead. And before we get into the Senate and the gubernatorial races, Nick, my feeling is that the Republicans are probably going to win the House. And we can talk in a second about what the ramifications are of that. How do you, how, what's your initial feeling in terms of

the House? Well, Nate Silver told me that's what's going to happen. Don't listen to Nate Silver.

Okay. I don't feel good only because generally from in the anecdotal version of this, if the polls say

that the Democrats are going to win by like two points, they're going to lose. They need to be up by like 10, 12 to make this actually work. And it's nothing scientific, so don't hold me on that. But that's how the feeling is. And but there is some depressing numbers that I looked at from the CNN New York Times poll when you kind of pull out some of the other things that are not related to just the candidates that make you really concerned. Yeah, I'm really concerned about it too. There's a couple of things

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