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Welcome to the advisory opinions podcast. I'm David French with Sarah Isger and uh, whoa,

wow. Um, we've got lots to talk about. We're going to do a little more politics when you,

then we normally do. So we're going to start with the midterms beginning with a rather dramatic

revision of my pre-mortem from the, from Tuesday morning, our Tuesday morning pre-mortem,

which we said we weren't going to do pre-mortems. And then I did a pre-mortem that turned out to be

exactly wrong. Okay. So we'll clarify that. We're also going to talk about an interesting

tanning bed case out of the fifth circuit with a sidebar on economic rights. Sarah's got a short

clarification on something. And then we're going to talk a little bit about an injunction in New York

against New York's new gun laws. So let's start though, Sarah, with the midterms. Um,

this is your arena. What, what are you thinking? What, what are your thoughts the morning after?

And, and there's still a lot we don't know. The house is still up for grabs. The Senate is still up for

grabs, which is the shocker. But anyway, go ahead. Yeah. So certainly overall, I would say that

election night 2016 was more surprising. However, and I don't know how I'm going to distinguish these two words. I am very tired.

Please forgive me for this entire podcast. We were on set for ABC until about 3 a.m. And then you have to take off all the hair and

makeup and stuff before you go to bed. And then a toddler with a poop filled diaper climbed directly on top of me,

and then you have just a few hours after that. Okay. So 2016 was more surprising in its outcome. Obviously. Right.

But all of the fundamentals were there. And frankly, it was quite easy to explain as soon as you saw results start coming in in terms of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

I think last night, David was the most shocking election results of my lifetime.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the thing that was because I don't think there's a whole lot we have to discuss in a whole lot of theories of what we watched last night.

But there's no obvious narrative, I think, of what we saw slash our continuing to look at. I carry Lake looks like she's about to pull ahead in Arizona.

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