Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here live across the nation. The phone number and the phone lines are wide open. If you want to call in, be a part of the show today. We'll do a free for all on the phones. 877-9-37-3-7-4-25 if you want to call in. I'll answer your questions. I want to take a meta outlook, if you will.

I want to talk about something and put it in proper context for you across the board.

A lot of Democrats are very giddy.

The Democrats seem to be a little more resurgent in the polling.

538 has a story about it.

It stops.

It's the abortion rebound, except there's some polling out there we'll get to that suggests

people who are pro-abortion are less likely to vote now.

Maybe it's gas prices.

Gas prices are going down.

The Democrats are rebounded.

They don't really know.

There appears to be something in the polling.

But there are a couple of problems that I want to spend a few moments stringing together

for you.

And the biggest is the Democratic bubble problem. Let's go to the issue of a

recession. It is very obvious to anyone willing to pay attention that the Democratic Party and the

press operate within the same sphere.

The Democratic Party and the press operate in the same bubble.

So, for example, up until Monday, you had everyone in the political press score willing to say that a recession was two quarters

of negative economic growth uh pay no attention as well to nancy pelosi and so while they may

have saved the second quarter from a technical definition of recession the fact is we are now

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