Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour One.

Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here across the country. The phone number 8779773-725.

Delighted to have you with me here today.

Well, we have to begin the post-mortem today, don't we?

We can probably cover it all just here today.

What actually happened?

Where was the red wave?

Where was the doom everyone was expecting?

And by the way, it is worth noting we actually were expecting it.

Everyone, including the Democrats, were expecting there to be a red wave. The Democrats were

already making plans to toss, for example, Ron Clayne as White House chief of staff. The New York

Times had its hit jobs on Joe Biden geared up. Where was it? What happened?

Well, I've been looking at all the numbers. I got it wrong. I was telling Democrats on this

program, doom was coming, and all the data showed it was. The Democratic behaviors showed it was.

The Republican behavior showed it was.

It's nice, however, to feel like I wasn't out on a limb here, literally everybody.

With the exception of the perennial contrarians, there are always these people who are contrarians.

If everybody goes in one direction, they go in the opposite. And they always play down when they're wrong, which they usually are,

but when they get it right, they scream very loudly and say, look at me, look at me, look at me,

I got it right, yes, they got it right this time. Overwhelmingly, however, all of the major prognosticators out there, the media polling was close.

In fact, the media polling got it better than the polling for the GOP.

But what was so interesting is just how the final voting rolled in.

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