Hey, everybody, if you're like me, you're still reeling from the midterm elections and have,

you know, questions and like, did that really happen and how did that happen and what happened?

Well, I've got the perfect person to unpack it all with and that's my buddy Simon Rosenberg,

president of NDN, New Democrat Network and the New Policy Institute. I think tank based in

Washington DC, Simon has been present about his assessment of this election from the very beginning.

You may recall we had a conversation back in September where we were both standing there saying,

hey, Democrats could actually wind up holding the house this November. Everybody laughing at us

and calling us crazy. Well, not so crazy now. Red wave much, not really. You might also know him

as one of the few strategists who said that there would be no red wave this November. So if anyone

is deserving of a night hold you so guess what? It's my friend Simon. We have Simon on the podcast.

As I said a couple of months ago, it was a great treat then. It's going to be even better treat for

you now because for the first time, he's laying out a full assessment of what happened on November 8th.

You'll get to hear it right here on the Michael Still podcast right after this.

Well, everybody, like I said, if you didn't listen to the conversation in September when

Simon and I sort of unpacked our thinking around what was going to happen,

you damn sure will appreciate the conversation today because now we're going to connect that

dot for you in a big way. Simon, welcome back to the podcast, David. It's so good to see you man.

It's great to be here and democracy had a good week this week. Democracy had a good week and

that is that is an appropriate way to begin the conversation because I do want to thank everyone

especially our Gen Z community of young voters who voted, participated. Don't tell me your vote

doesn't make a difference. It does. It does in ways you can only appreciate when you see a night

like we saw on Tuesday night. So let's just before we get into the nitty-gritty because there's a lot

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