From the KPFK studios in Southern California, it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

Stand up, stand up, you've been sitting Ray to Tom.

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Skrovan, along with my co-host, David Feldman.

And as we record this, it is the morning after, the morning after the midterms. How are you feeling, David, a little hungover or what? Well, I think we dodged a bullet. It could have been a lot worse. So I'm satisfied. All right. And we also have the Man of the Hour. Ralph Nader. Hello, Ralph. Hello, everybody. We're going to have a great show today,

people of great political incisiveness. Yes, all about these midterms, and though we don't know

everything just yet. We do know that the Democrats managed to flip the House by at least 27 seats

that may grow as more returns come in. We also know that the Republicans held onto the

Senate and actually increased their margin by a few seats. And we also know that a record number of

women were elected to Congress. So today we're going to talk about the aftermath. What happened?

Why it happened? What's going to happen as a result. And the question I'm most curious about

is how these results influence the course of the Democratic Party. So here to help us analyze

what happened is our old friend Mark Green, former Nader's Raider, public advocate of New York,

and someone who knows all the inside baseball of the political process as both a commentator and a participant.

That'll be in the first half of the show. In the second half of the show, we take you to

Wisconsin, where we will welcome law professor and activist Joel Rogers, who will give us

his view from that state, which just ousted the notorious two-term anti-union governor Scott Walker.

As always, we will take a minute to check in with our corporate crime reporter Russell Mochiber.

And if we have time left over, Ralph will answer more of your questions.

But first, let's break down what happened on Tuesday.

David?

Mark Green is a former Nader's Raiders.

He ran Public Citizens Congress Watch for 10 years. After that, he went on to found his own public interest organization, the New Democracy Project. In addition, he was elected New York City's first public advocate. An author and a radio and TV commentator, Mark's latest book, which we have talked about previously on this show, is entitled Bright, Infinite Future, A Generational Memoir on the Progressive Rise.

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