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With just under two weeks until the midterms, Democrats have reason for cautious optimism.Analysts (cookpolitical.com/analysis/house/house-overvie…) at the Cook Political Report project the party could flip the House. The Senate, meanwhile, has swung from Republican confidence earlier this year to a jump ball, and the Democratic party is also poised toregain a majority (cookpolitical.com/analysis/governors/alaska-go…) of governorships for the first time since 2010. But voters have been burned by polls before.
Kara sits down with a panel of experts to talk about whether a “blue wave” is coming, or if it’s more of a lack of enthusiasm from GOP voters that will result in a “red undertow.” They also discuss the impact of prediction markets and the affordability crisis on voters’ decision making, how Gen Z is thinking about all political parties and what the midterms could signal for 2028.
Kristen Soltis Anderson (nytimes.com/by/kristen-soltis-anderson) is a Republican pollster, founding partner of Echelon Insights and focus group moderator for The New York Times Opinion section’s America in Focus series. She’s also the author of "The Selfie Vote: Where Millennials Are Leading America (and How Republicans Can Keep Up)." David Wasserman (google.com/url?q=https://www.cookpolitical.com…) is a senior editor and elections analyst for the non-partisan Cook Political Report with Amy Walter. Terrance Woodbury (hitstrat.com/member/terrance-woodbury) is a Democratic pollster and president and founding partner of HIT Strategies, a research firm specializing in young voters and voters of color.
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