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Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily podcast today is Wednesday, May 18, 2022.

I'm John Pauhrts the editor of commentary with me is always executive editor

Abe Greenwald. Hi, Abe. Hi, John. Senior writer Christine Rosen. Hi, Christine.

Hi, John. And associate editor. No, Rothman. Hi, Noah. Hi, John.

Fascinating results in last night's primaries in North Carolina and Pennsylvania and Idaho.

A couple of other places. Lots of cross currents both in the Democratic and in the Republican

parties. So we'll just try to unpack some of that. The first thing to be pointed out,

which is not the first thing other people are pointing out, but it's the first thing I think

we need to point out is that the in Pennsylvania, which was obviously the most the highest profile

set of races last night because you had a a gubernatorial primary in the Republican party and a Senate

primary and the public and in the Democratic parties, but I guess the in the in the Democratic parties,

the conclusions were foregone that

Futterman was going to win the Senate primary and that Josh Shapiro was going to win the

gubernatorial primary. And I guess it was it was it was totally predictable who was going to win the

Republican primary for governor, but of course there is this barn burner of a race right now with

2000 votes separating them between between Dr. Oz and David McCormick of Black Rock.

The key here is that the turnout particularly on the Republican side was insane.

In the United States, the Democrats had a million

in the United States, and the Democrats had a million in the United States, and the Democrats

didn't even have a real race like they didn't you know in either of those races,

Noah, what do you make of this? Yeah, it's not just Pennsylvania, but it was Oregon,

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