From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbarale. This is the date.

Today.

With the Democrats fighting to reclaim control of both the House and Senate,

the House seems to be headed in one direction, the Senate in the other.

Three weeks out from election day, the state of the 2018 midterms.

It's Monday, October 15th.

November 6th, 2018. It's all up to you.

Our big question today is ahead of the midterms, which party is more fired up following the Kavanaugh confirmation battle.

Democrats keep talking about a blue wave this year.

What we see in the Democratic Party is two things. Energy.

And for the first time, there's money.

The so-called blue wave is going to disappear in the sand.

A recent poll shows the Democrats' enthusiasm advantage has nearly disappeared.

And I think you're going to see if anything more of a red wave by the time we get to November than a blue wave.

They keep talking about this blue wave.

Their blue wave is really sputtering pretty badly. The red wave is happening.

That was for instance.

Let's start with the House of Representatives.

How many seats would Democrats need to win to take back the House?

So majority of the House is 218 seats.

Democrats are 23 seats short of that goal.

There are a couple vacant seats in the House right now. They're just not occupied.

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