Hello listeners and welcome to another episode of Politico's nerd cast.

I'm Scott Bland, your host.

This week on the Nurdcast, we are going to have the smartest conversation you will hear all week about Tuesday nights midterm primaries and what's coming up down the pike.

We're going to pick it apart from a couple angles.

The standout results from Tuesday night

and we'll pour one out for former Minnesota Governor Tim Paul Enti.

Why Democrats in the Midwest seem to be betting on establishment candidates,

maybe even boring candidates.

And then a look ahead to what's coming up in late August and in September, which is somehow

only a few weeks away, and how it's all setting up these big midterm

elections.

A reminder to our listeners to subscribe to the nerd cast, rate us and write a review, and stay tuned

for the end of the show for a contribution from one of the

nerd cast biggest fans. One more note before we begin we are taping this a little

bit before noon eastern on Thursday August 16th so it's all up to date as of then.

All right, let's get started.

I want to welcome our guests from Politico's great political team covering these midterm elections.

They will be with us the entire show this week. We have

Elena Schneider, our house expert. Hi Elena.

Hey Scott. Also in the studio we have Steve Shepard, our polling analyst. Hi Steve,

hey Scott. And on Skype from the left coast we have David Siders.

Hi David.

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