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Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Monday November 12, 2018. I am John

Pudhord, the editor of commentary talking to you from Miami Beach where I am at

the Faith Angle Conference of the Ethics and Public Policy Center back in

various places in New York. We have Anne New Jersey. We have senior editor Abe

Greenwald, hi Abe. Hi John. Associate editor Noah Rothman, hi Noah. Hi John. And on

his pen ultimate commentary podcast soon to be not senior writer Sora Bammari. Hi Sora.

Hi John. Okay guys so as the days have progressed since Wednesday when we did the

last podcast, what I have described as a wave moving at the speed of a snail seems to

have sort of overcome the election of 2018. We have what now looks to be a

democratic gain in the house closing in on close to 40 seats. We have a reversed

call apparently in the Arizona Senate race in which the it appears the

Democrat Christian cinema has defeated the Republican Martha McSally that's

bringing the gain the Republican gain down to two from where there was a point at

which it looked like it might be for now. John Tester prevailed in Montana and

and Christian cinema has has seemed so one in Arizona so even the wildly optimistic

projections of a substantial Republican gain in the Senate have been reduced to a

good game but but not anything that would suggest you know that there was a wildly

split decision here since Republicans had this incredibly favorable map in

which they had nine seats Democrats had nine seats in in Trump states and they

only had one seat in a Clinton state and they in fact lost their homes lost

the seat in the Clinton state. So just to set the table I have a blog post this

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