Welcome to Axis ProRata, a podcast that takes just 10 minutes to get you smarter on the collision of tech business and politics.

I'm Dan Pramak. On today's show, the one big thing none of us yet know about Amazon HQ2 and SoftBank CEO finally speaks out on Saudi Arabia.

But first, the midterms. Republicans believe we must defend our borders. We have to defend the borders of our country,

and that country is a country that we love, the United States of America.

You get to vote in what might be the most important election of our lifetimes, maybe more important than 2008.

By this time tomorrow, millions of Americans will be at the ballot box in high school gyms and church basements and all other sorts of civic buildings to determine representatives and leaders for the next two, four or six years.

As we hear each time, it's the most important election of our lifetimes. And as is usually the

case, that's true, because it's the only one we're guaranteed to get. So the state of play right now is,

in a word, unsettled. Conventional wisdom is that Democrats will regain control of the House and

Republicans will hold on to the Senate. And a lot of that is just based on math, with lots of

retiring House Republicans in purple districts and lots of Senate Democrats running for

reelection in red states. In other words, the Democrats are on offense in the House, but on

defense in the Senate. But conventional wisdom didn't work out too well last time around.

And statistical probabilities are just that. Probabilities. An 80% chance of winning is also a 20% chance of losing and vice versa.

There can be poor polling, so-called hidden votes, rain that keeps people away from the polls,

and sunshine that gets people out, and all other sorts of variables.

So here's what we do know.

What happens tomorrow in the aggregate will have consequences.

It always does. Not only in terms of giving President Trump personal validation or rebuke,

but also on policy matters like health care, taxes, immigration, trade, infrastructure,

and all sorts of other things. So please be sure to vote. Vote your conscience. Vote your

pocketbook. Vote your community. Vote your pocketbook.

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