I'm Matt Bellini, founding partner of Puck News, and I'm covering the inside conversation

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On today's episode, we have Nate Silver offering his analysis of what is turning out to be

an unexpectedly weird midterm election year.

So, a general rule of midterm elections is that the party in power loses.

This is as close to an ironclad law as you can find in politics.

Republicans were in power in 2018.

They lost.

Republicans in 2006 crushed Democrats in 1994 demolished.

There are exceptions to this rule, of course, 1998, 2002.

But it tends to require something like a geopolitical earthquake, like 9-11, to break the trend.

For most of the last year, it seemed like 2022 would be a typical midterm election year,

namely that Republicans would sweep in the Senate and the House.

I felt like the story was almost baked in.

I mean, how many times on this show have I said, Joe Biden is in the dog house with voters.

Democrats are screwed as long as inflation is at 40-year highs.

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