The Red Wave That Wasn't
The Reason Roundtable
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🗓️ 14 November 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to the Reason Roundtable. |
| 0:05.4 | I'm Peter Suterman, filling in for Matt Welch, who is so many time zones away that he might |
| 0:10.5 | as well be on another planet. |
| 0:12.7 | Joining me today are my regular co-panelists, Nick Gillespie and Catherine Mingu Ward, as |
| 0:17.7 | well as special guest, Eric Baim. |
| 0:20.2 | Everyone, say hello. |
| 0:21.4 | Howdy. |
| 0:22.4 | Hello. |
| 0:23.4 | Happy Monday, Peter. |
| 0:24.4 | On this week's episode, we'll talk about the unusual, unexpected outcome of last week's |
| 0:29.5 | midterm election. |
| 0:30.8 | What went right? |
| 0:31.8 | What went wrong? |
| 0:32.8 | And what we still don't know? |
| 0:34.0 | Plus, what Elon Musk's Twitter takeover tells us about the state of the internet and free |
| 0:39.7 | speech online in 2022. |
| 0:42.3 | All right, gang, it has been almost a full week since the midterm election, and we still |
| 0:46.2 | don't know the final results. |
| 0:48.5 | But this much is clear, Republicans radically underperformed. |
| 0:53.2 | The red wave that was predicted turned out to be a sad low tide. |
| 0:58.0 | And that is why I'm going to call this segment better dead than red. |
| 1:02.0 | The GOP leader in the house, Kevin McCarthy, had predicted a huge pickup of 60 seats. |
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