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Hello, good night everybody.

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Today is election day, the midterms, the showdown, the day on which Chris Hayes dissolves into the Book of

Revelation. And so I think it's only fair that I start the show by giving you my predictions. So here goes. I think Republicans are

going to end up with 53 Senate seats. That's plus three in the lingo. I think Republicans are going to add 30 seats in the House. I think

Kathy Hockel is going to win in New York. Yes, I'm sorry. I think Gretchen

Whitmer is going to win in Michigan and Florida. Well I think

Florida is going to deliver an absolute landslide.

Desantis by 12, Rubio by 10,

every statewide office goes Republican,

and the GOP wins Miami-Dade County for the first time in two decades.

And if I'm wrong, which I often am, there's not much you can do about it.

Today on the show I have Sean Trendy from Real Clear

Politics who's going to talk to me about polling, how it works, what the challenges

are and what he thinks is going to happen today.

And after that I have David Bernstein from George Mason University

who is going to talk to me about his new book classified, which takes a look at the

strange system of racial classifications used by the federal government.

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