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these and sees apply 18 plus. At the very least you can say that a

devastating midterm loss doesn't portend anything negative for the president. So, Pretty exciting episode today. We're going to have Matt Lewis on and you may know Matt Lewis, senior columnist The Daily Beast,

you may have seen him on CNN as a political commentator.

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midterms, midterms. I told this story back in 2007, so I think one of the good things about having a podcast for what is now 12 years,

2006 when it started is that, hey I can repeat a few stories, right? We have a lot of new listeners now, I don't hope.

You may know your history, but you may not know that in the middle of the Civil War, five months after

Union troops had repelled the Confederate Army, advancing on Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,

Abraham Lincoln found that his own Congress was under attack.

But it wasn't the great Confederate Army commanded by Robert Lee threatening to grasp the capital dome,

then under construction from Lincoln's control.

It was a short bearded man.

A clerk named Emerson Etheridge.

Lincoln's Republicans had been hurt by the midterms of 1862 and now they actually represented a tactical minority of Congress the Republicans did.

It was only with the new... the Republicans

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