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Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Wednesday November 7th 2018

day after the midterm elections. I'm John Pajor. It's the editor of

commentary with me as always Noah Rossman our associate I know I know

I John senior editor a Greenwald high a hi John and on his anti-punultimate

show. Senior writer Sora Bammari yes hi John so we were discussing the extent

to which Sora Bammari the wave skeptic for the past year should take a victory

lap as a result of the results of last night which were many things but did not

constitute what used to be called a wave although I think now basically in the

last two years the wave is just meant like a really really really good

election for one party as opposed to the other but but you you you have

weighed against that definition constantly and I don't think it matters anymore

but see you insisted that the technical definition is is what that did all

or nearly all marginal races go to the one party right in the end if you have a

lot of toss up races a lot of ties and the polls that what you see is a

uniform swing toward one party nationally and that's what constitutes a wave

and there was one of those in 2010 there was one of those in 2006 there was one of

those in 1994 and obviously there was one in 1980 but not in 2018 had there

been a wave wave Democrats would have done better in the Senate in other

words like if a wave means that all these marginal seats shift uniformly

in one direction they shift in the Democratic direction that would mean that

there was a kind of momentum voter surge toward one party and not toward the

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