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Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast. It is the day after Election Day, Wednesday,

November 9th, 2022. I'm John Puthhorets, the editor of Commentary with me as always executive

editor, A Greenwald Hype, media commentary columnist, and American Enterprise Institute

fellow Christine Rosen, Hykristine, and associate editor and author of the Rise of the New

Puritans, Noah Rothman. Hyjon. You know, we spend two years talking about what's going to happen

in an election and then in one day we find out what's happening in an election and it's of course

the key fact is that we have absolutely no idea what's going to happen in an election. We are

operating on fake false data that can be massaged in all kinds of ways that are speculative and

future leaning and do not reflect what is going to happen either in the if you now want to talk

about it really as a three week period in which people now vote in the United States.

But I think it's important to note that the electorate is very interesting. We have now had four

really interesting elections in a row in which the electorate did unexpected things,

each of which has to be interpreted in its own way and that every time we try to fit the electorate

into a box and say, look, this is what history shows midterms have always done this or, you know,

no one's ever going to vote for that and no one's going to vote for a stroke victim, no one's

going to vote for somebody who you know who talked about dragging her by the pee, no one's going to

no one's going to do this. It's just not the way it happens. It's not the way it's done and we are

shamed or at least I am every time by the arrogance with which we presume to understand what I think

Michael McDonald, the election counter says, is 118 million people last night in the count,

either last night or during the early voting spoke across the country and what they said was

very interesting and nobody anticipated what they said. I mean, this is really important because

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