Mark Mitchell

Yeah, and this comes back to the fourth turning, boomers and the millennials.

Rasp us an underscore poll on a spolster.

Yeah.

And I want to start with I'm an independent pollster and no party pays for me to try to get them to win.

And so really who I'm looking out for is our subscribers, our advertisers, the people that we're trying to help, which is the American electorate, who, quite frankly, does not have a lobbyist on K Street.

We're really one of the few people that is measuring public sentiment and trying to say, like, no, these people are not getting what they voted for over and over again.

And everybody attacks us for it.

Now, I'll say I often get accused of being a doomer, about being a black pillar.

And no, I'm not on your team.

I'm on everybody's team.

And so if I'm telling you bad news, it's because I'm looking at the data and saying things are bad.

Now, if you want good news, you can look at the tactical picture, and the tactical picture isn't that bad.

It's like, okay, Democrats are only up 2.6 on the RealClearPolitics generic ballot right now.

They've only gained about a half a point since the shutdown started.

And if you look at presidential approval of Donald Trump since the shutdown started, it hasn't changed at all.

And, of course, I predicted that because I said Americans wanted the government shutdown, but there was a rub.

They wanted the government shut down if it was used as a hammer to get cuts in spending, which it's not.

And so maybe that will turn south.

You just talked about the maps.

Yeah, there's a lot of good reasons to expect that Republicans could outperform because of the shifts in the electoral maps and maybe the census coming up.