And the Hi, I'm Bill Crystal.

Welcome to Conversations and welcome back to Mike Murphy.

Thank you.

Previous converseer on Conversations.

And we're back at it. we're back at it a couple of weeks after the

2018 election. Yeah shocker it went badly heard here was predicted I think pretty

much went the way you predicted right? Yeah I think anybody

who knows anything about politics could have predicted this you know let's see unpopular

president tone dead death Congress and independence hate us you know you don't

I saw the

And the normal off-year reaction. Right right exactly that's part of it but all

this coverage about who the intensities creeped up 1% and you know it was all noise

it was pretty obvious we were heading for this and we took the beating

Okay, we being the Republicans. Yeah, I'm still in it you and I are still in it

We're fighting from within I know caucus of 11 yeah, but good old it but good it's good my problem is I would kind of I can't some people

in my world or my business have switched over but that means you have to be for the

policy you know that's a part yes switched over but that means you have to be for the policy.

You know that's the Democrats. Yes. Yeah. I mean a Bloomberg's a

nominee that's a different story but you know. Okay so what let's do that we've

been through a lot of midterms and of course people often get

midterms wrong or they don't predict the next what happens two years

ago later or things were worse well the Obama exactly he lost 63 seats in the

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