Domenico Montanaro

But we can leave it there for now.

Let's take a quick break and more in just a second.

And we are back.

And in honor of the Super Bowl yesterday, I have decided, as host of this year's podcast, that we are going to do an NFL-style draft of the places that we are watching most closely this year.

I have not warned you guys about this, but I have decided this.

And so this is how we're going to do this segment.

And the podcast gods have given Stephen Fowler the first pick in the first annual midterms What to Watch draft.

Where are you going first, Steve?

Yeah, I feel like Iowa is also so interesting just because if Democrats and this is a big if Democrats do want to take back the Senate, I feel like they're going to need to take one of these random states that isn't generally talked about in the sort of swing state category.

And Iowa feels like one of those places where it's at least possible.

Domenico, the podcast gods have given you the second pick in the first annual Midterms What to Watch for draft.

Where are we going?

I feel like I'm having, yeah, real flashbacks.

I also just watched the first season of Homeland, which is the same thing where I just everything is feeling very 2005 ish right now.

That was a very that's a really interesting ad.

Just feels so out of left field for us in the national media.

And I also want to note tomorrow we are going to have a deep dive specifically into Texas and to a lot of this stuff in tomorrow's episode.

So look out for that.

I'm a little mad, Domenico, because I was going to go Texas for my pick.

So it's very NFL drafty where I was like, oh, man, I just got scooped.