turnout affair. I mean, it wasn't a low turnout affair in New Jersey or New York or Virginia,

and it wasn't a low turnout affair in California either. And so this was not a situation in which

you had very few people voting and, you know, you just had quirky things happen. This was, as you

say, an energized electorate that made a decision that they had had enough and that they were going to

stand up for democracy in California. It's not just that it was high turnout for what you call a process.

But think about it.

If I had told you a year ago that there would be a ballot initiative in California to undo a nonpartisan commission map and put in place a partisan map, you would have told me I was crazy.

If I had also told you that in Virginia,

the way in which Democrats would rescue, frankly, one of their more difficult candidates for

Attorney General would be by pivoting towards the promise of redrawing maps, that that would

energize and galvanize electorate and flip, you know,

13 statehouse seats along the way.

You would have said, I was crazy.

And finally, you know, Chris, in Maine, you know, how many times have you and I've been lectured

by Republicans about how popular voter ID is?

Well, voter ID was on the ballot in Maine, and it got smoked. I mean, it lost by 20

points in Maine, which, as you know, is a kind of purple state. So there was a lot of democracy

on the ballot last night, and democracy won. Our governors moving out of their mansions in Virginia.

I actually, I had a call with Steve Bannon last night and interviewing him

for the newsletter to see what his take was. The tea. The tea. And he, you know, his take is

sort of like Carl Rove's take and Newt Gingrich's take, which which is we got a lot of work to do.

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