Boy, it felt in part like a referendum on Trump, but really to me that points to something deeper,

which is a referendum on our character as I

I record this conversation with Huff post editor-in-chief Lydia Polgreen

some of the biggest races are unresolved, including both the Senate and

gubernatorial race in Florida, which are now too close to call.

Which feels about right for how I'm feeling about the country at this moment.

It's too close to call.

I'm Ky right.

This is the United States of anxiety, gender, power, and the midterm elections.

And in this episode, we, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Lydia and I set down to figure this all out with conservative columnist Mona

Charen.

Well, I've been in a clinical depression since 2015

when Donald Trump first announced that he was running

and it seemed that he was popular.

So for me, this is an ongoing process.

Along with Kelly Dittmar of the Center for American Women in Politics.

I think this election was a lot about challenging who gets power, who gets power, who deserves power in our political institutions,

and also who doesn't and who's been marginalized from those institutions.

So our premise in this season was that there would be this unprecedented gender gap in the congressional vote like we normally see in presidential elections. And so Kelly, did that happen?

Yeah, so the gender gap in the generic poll, the House poll's a little harder to measure

in these House races because it really varies across states but it was

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