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Welcome to left, right and center, everybody. I am David Green. You know, I love doing a politics show at a time when we actually have elections to dissect and talk about voters have spoken, and that's the best time to talk about politics.

So there were a few elections over the past week, voters in Virginia and New Jersey, several major cities, including New York City

in Boston, people turned out to cast ballots for governors, mayors, state legislatures, and in the case

of California, one very important ballot question. It was a very empty ballot, if you were a voter

like myself in California. There was just one ballot question about redistricting,

but it was an important one, and we will get to that. Democrats since Tuesday have been,

shall we say, in a very celebratory mood. They scored victories in many of these races.

But Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson basically told them not so fast.

There's no surprises. What happened last night was blue states and blue cities voted blue.

We all saw that coming.

And no one should read too much into last night's election results.

Off-year elections are not indicative of what's to come.

That's what history teaches us.

All right. We have a great panel today, two people who have spent many years involved in elections, thinking about elections, telling us how important what voters said really is, how important it might not be, what we should actually glean from it.

On the left, we have Rebecca Piercy in from Moa Lathie this week.

She's a veteran Democratic strategist who was political director for Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign.

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