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The Gist

A Red Ripple

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Californians won't be gambling on sports, Oregon legislators won't be fleeing session, and Mehmet Oz won't be moving to Pennsylvania. A thorough election recap on the show today. Also, Amanda Ripley, author of High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped And How We Get Out, which looks at warring parties and the psychology that perpetuates the conflict. Plus, Democrats exceed expectations but probably wont hold the house, but it's better to have a majority minority anyway. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's Wednesday, November 9, 2022 from Peachfish Productions, it's the Gisdy Mike Pesca Red

0:10.5

Ripple!

0:11.5

No, not just the second basement for the 1917 Boston Beanyters baseball club, but the

0:15.8

best phrase I've heard to describe the Republican underperformance in the midterms.

0:21.6

Underperformance, but still likely to take over the house the New York Times estimates they'll

0:25.9

have 223 seats to the Democrats' 211, but the Times did stop updating their model since

0:33.5

about four o'clock this morning.

0:35.5

So we turn to the gestometer, 222.

0:42.6

I just know that the Republicans will most likely win.

0:47.5

They definitely did worse than they expected to.

0:50.8

Question is why.

0:51.8

Let's go over what was factoring into the assumption that the red ripple would ripen.

0:57.8

It wasn't just the polls though polls did have Republicans with a lead on the generic

1:02.7

ballot.

1:03.7

I know and who no one votes on a generic ballot, but the size of the Republican lead suggested

1:08.0

a pick up of many more seats than the Republicans will get.

1:11.7

Only we should add, there were a couple of late breaking versions of the generic ballot

1:18.1

that showed that the Democrats had basically even things up.

1:22.3

Couple of shows they pulled ahead.

1:23.3

Hmm, to that I say hmm.

1:25.6

But also we got a factor in history.

1:27.6

We thought there'd be something more of a wave because in 22 midterm elections between

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