The MeidasTouch Podcast - Midterm Elections Data Shows DEMOCRATIC SURGE with expert Simon Rosenberg

Episode Date: November 6, 2022

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BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario. I'm Ben Mycelis from the Midas Touch podcast and welcome to this special midterm elections edition where we will be breaking down the data that you need to know heading into these midterms. We're basically a day away from the midterm elections on November 8th. We're recording this on the weekend. We will release this on audio as well. We have with us a guest that we had earlier last week who this will be his 17th election cycle. He was a member of the 1992 Clinton war room, someone who has been breaking down the data, not the speculation, not the hype, just what is the data telling us at this point? And by the way, what the data is telling us at this point doesn't

mean that's what the data will be telling us on Monday or Tuesday, but we need to look at the data and we can just say what the data says, as opposed to what we've been seeing out there, which has been a number of these right wing Republican polls flooding the zone and groups like 538, including those in the averages. That's why I said, who out there has the data? That's who I need to talk to. And that's Simon Rosenberg. Simon, welcome to the Midas Touch Podcast special midterm data. I know. It's exciting to be here and it's great to be with you guys. And thanks for having me back. We got a lot of good stuff to talk about today. Well, let's get right into it. You posted a little bit ago on Twitter and what you wrote is you said new batch of early vote data just hit the target early site. We'll have a write-up for you a little bit later. Stay tuned. So I said, let's get Simon on now before the write-up. Let's bring it to the Midas Mighty. So tell us about what this new batch says. Tell us about what the old batch is saying. Yeah, I know. And listen, and I'm delaying putting it up to be with you, right? That's

why people had to wait. So here's what we know, right? We should just be unbelievably encouraged by what we're seeing. All of us have been told there's a red wave, red wave, red wave, right? And that, you know, Democrats didn't have a chance. And what we know is this, we know that since Dobbs happened, you know, we have seen incredible Democratic energy and performance in five house special elections in Kansas, in the voter registration numbers changed dramatically. I mean, there was a huge surge in Democratic voter registration. Our candidates raised much more money than Republican candidates did. And so on all these measures of intensity, they were all good for us and bad for them, right? And so we just didn't know that was going to carry on to the election

itself. You just never know. You got to let it happen. And it is carrying on to the election itself. We're seeing incredible Democratic performance and intensity in the early vote all across the country. And we should be really excited about that. It means that we've got a real shot. And frankly, you know, the Republicans have yet to show where they have been intense about anything, right? They underperformed in all those elections. They underperformed in Kansas. Their voter reg numbers went down. Their candidates didn't raise a lot of money. And so they're going to have to go from a party that was not showing a lot of energy to one that's going to have to blow it out on election day and do something that's actually getting mathematically

more difficult every day that the early vote comes in so big so let's go if you want let me go through a couple quick data points on this and so so today um the early vote based on the site called target early which is the most sophisticated early vote uh analytical site it's actually the partner of nbc news and nbc news uses their data so it's not just me and a guy right it's actually the partner of NBC News and NBC News uses their data. So it's not just me and a guy, right? It's actually being, you know, coming from the same data as on the NBC News website. We know today now that in the early vote, 50% of the people who voted are look like Democrats, 39% look like Republicans. So that means we have an 11 point lead. That's a big lead, right? In 2020, at this point, it was about seven and a half points. And in 2018, it was one point a lead for the Democrats.

So we are now 10 points better than 2018 and three and a half points better than 2020. Pretty amazing, right? Showing no red wave there, right? Can't see a red wave there. You see a blue wave, actually. And then in terms of the total vote, we now have, there are 4.3 million more Democrats that have voted than Republicans. That's a huge number, right? I mean, the margin of Biden's victory in 2020 was seven points, right? I mean, 7 million votes. So we're getting into the millions and millions of more votes that they have to make up on election day. It's not like it's a million votes so we're getting into the millions and millions of more votes that they have to make up on election day it's not like it's a million votes it's going to probably be by election day

given current trend lines at least five million it could be five and a half million votes that's really good right the third big point is that um the vote has shifted you know this week has been an unbelievable week i mean i was excited a week ago everything is much more democratic this week than a week ago this has been an enormous week in the early vote it's clear that our field organizations and part of the reason i want to come on today is i just wanted to let everyone knows when working in this election you're doing a phenomenal job you're kicking ass right things are getting much more democratic as our field organizations and all the people that have been writing postcards and texting and doing all

this work. It's showing up in the data. Things are getting more democratic. It's three and a half points more democratic this week than it was a week ago. That's a huge change. And then fourth, the states, what's happening in the states, because it's not universal, right? I mean, some states are better than others. It's our crazy politics, but in general, in the states that really matter, in Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, Pennsylvania,

Ohio, Wisconsin, North Carolina, for example, just to pick a few states, we're doing much better than we were at this point in 2020. So we've actually increased our vote. And all of this stuff is a refutation, it's a repudiation of the red wave narrative. If the Democrats are the ones who are showing intensity and voting in high numbers, where the numbers are really most impressive and where we've seen the biggest gains from 2020 and 2018 have been in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Georgia. Those are pretty important states, right? And so all of this looks

really good. And it means that we're going to enter election day with the Republicans being in a very deep hole that they're going to have to dig out of. And the question is, is that, can they do it? I mean, the blue wave has hit, right? Our wave has hit. We know their wave's going to come, but now it's going to have to be bigger than this big, as John Ralston calls it, the firewall, right? In his, when he writes about Nevada, our firewall, I think, is going to be a lot bigger than anybody thought it was going to be on election day. So hats off to everybody for their incredible work to put us in this position where we've clearly got a shot on Tuesday. And Simon, when you say our wave is hit, what I think is also important to note, that's the early vote wave.

But with COVID conditions improving, and look, COVID is still a factor. But with COVID conditions improving, are you also seeing more optimism that there will be a higher day of voter turnout as well by Democrats and potentially independents who will vote pro-democracy? Yeah, I mean, there's clearly both parties are going to have people shifting back to more traditional voting, right? There's no question about that. And historically, young people voted later on Election Day. And what you're seeing is that every day this week, our electorate got older than 2018 and 2020. We're actually not doing very well this cycle in California. We're off a little bit in California and Florida, meaning that two of the three biggest states were actually down.

And so in an older, wider electorate where we're actually underperforming in two of the big states, which are bringing our numbers down, we're still up 11 points. And so if young people turn out in the next few days, and they've begun to turn out, I mean, part of the reason Nevada is looking much better is that young people have started really showing up in the vote there. It's very traditional, they vote late, right? That's traditionally the case. We're seeing some indication now that, you know, where we have real data showing that young people are becoming a much bigger part of the electorate. If we have a big youth turnout, which is what the most recent poll of young people done by Harvard's IOP, the Institute of Politics, the definitive kind of source on this, said that the expectation is in their polling that we'll match 2018 or above with young people. And they're right now about plus 25 Democrats.

If that happens, we're going to have a really good midterm. And, you know, I mean, we've sort of set it up now where if we close strong all the work that everybody's doing. Right. We've just got to keep pounding away because it's working and we've to keep and we got to close strong. We got to make sure we close strong. We know there's going to be a big Republican vote on Tuesday, but the key is, is for us to get, to make it impossible for them to match this huge vote we've put up in the last few weeks and particularly the last few days. I mean, we've had a really, really super performance in the last just couple of days. You mentioned the Harvard IOP poll you've put out on social media, the NBC poll, which is consistent with the data that we are talking about now. But we've also seen, Simon, an influx,

and I see it in my social media feeds, everybody watching out there sees it in their social media feeds. And, you know, it, it feels sometimes like a roller coaster would be putting it lightly where you get, I read you and then I see NBC and Harvard. I'm like, okay, these are, these are polls that are telling me what the data is Simon saying. But then I start seeing all of these polls that I know, WIC and Rasmussen and Trafalgar. And then those are the ones that are obvious. And then others, I'm like, what are these polls that are coming in? And then I see people like FiveThirtyEight and people who work for those organizations. And I saw you had posted one where you were like,

so are you just admitting that it's part of the poll industry? You're just accepting these bad polls because you want other polls to manipulate it and then that's how you get your weighted average. So like what's going on here where you talk about respectable polls and then there's all these other polls. Let me try to make this really simple

because this is obviously anybody, I mean, even I'm confused by all this stuff, right? And I think the way to think about this is that if an election is breaking in one direction, right, let's say if there's a red wave, then everything has to point in that direction, right? The way data works is that, you know, it all has to be saying, yeah, Republicans are gaining ground, they're doing really well, and the early vote's really good for them, and fundraising is good. I mean, there's all these ways we have of measuring politics. And what's true in the polling is that the polling in the last few weeks has been either neutral for us or actually pretty good, to be honest. If you look objectively at the New York Times House polls, if you look at the high quality polls, if you look at the Harvard IOP poll, the Univision Hispanic polls, I mean, there's been a... And then today, the NBC News poll was really important. This was just done.

It was compared to two weeks ago. And what they showed up... And let me just go through this for a minute because the data is really important because it confirms a lot of what we've been arguing, is that because a lot of the polls you've seen, the national polls that have us down three or four points, have Republican intensity much higher than ours. That's why they've ended up becoming more Republican. We're not seeing that on the ground. I mean, that may be true by election day. It's not true right now. And so if we are actually, the NBC poll had us even in intensity and gaining, I forget the number, 10 to 15 points in the last two weeks since they polled last. And in that poll,

we're ahead because the intensity was the same. The Republicans are not more intense than we are. Every measure of intensity is actually favoring us. And I think that part of the red wave narrative and BS around the red wave was that I think it bullied pollsters into sort of favoring higher, better Republican numbers because the people were kind of looking for it to be better. NBC did what we have been arguing for 10 days,

which is you cannot put in your poll that Republicans are more enthusiastic to vote if more Democrats are voting, right? It's a sort of a simple thing, right? And so I'm very pleased. So you can look at that change, right? I mean, Republicans had a nine point lead in intensity and look, you know, Democrats caught up. And if you see that the GOP intensity number went down, by the way, it's a huge warning sign for the Republican party, right? I mean,

this is consistent with the fact that they're not really turning out. There's not the level of intensity they're going to need to win the election. We'll see on Tuesday. But the other point I just want to make about the polls is that, so if you objectively look at 538 to all of the national polls, you know, probably half or 60% of them either have us tied or ahead. There were just a couple of really, really high profile polls that kind of pushed everybody over. And then the thing you're talking about happens, right? If you take out the nonpartisan polls, things look pretty good for us, right? We had good polls in Ohio and Pennsylvania and Georgia and all around the country. Arizona, we had a great poll in Arizona. Among the high quality polls, oh, I know what I was going to tell you.

I'm sorry if I'm a little amped up and a little tired, right? So here's the example I did what I was going to tell you. I'm sorry if I'm a little amped up and a little tired. So here's the example I did. I put on my Twitter feed a couple of days ago. In Georgia in the last two weeks, let's just look at the last two weeks, there have been five high-quality independent media polls that have Warnock up by 3.2 points. It's good, right? That's really good. And then there were five Republican polls in part of this program to flood the poll averages. And they had Walker leading by 4.4 points. That's an eight point difference in the independent polls from the Republican polls. And so what the Republicans are doing is they're basically flooding all seven states and the national averages with these polls that all

show them three, four, five points off. They're very consistent in their numbers. And, you know, and so is, I don't know if, yeah, so they're all consistent in their numbers. And what they're doing is they're pushing averages instead of, you know, Georgia and these states being two points, three points Democrat, they're now either even or negative. I believe this was a campaign done. The only reason you would mount a campaign that involved 15 different pollsters and more than 40 polls in seven states, which costs a lot of money, the only reason you would do something like this if you didn't think you were winning, by the way. I mean, we need to be really clear about this this is a sign

of weakness not strength for them you wouldn't devote this kind of energy and money this late to something that wasn't really vital because that means that money is not going into go tv or ads or something else so they felt this was important enough to organize the massive effort why did they need to convince the country that things were better for them than they were if things were good for them to begin with and this is to me another sign that this is that they kind of bamboozled the media a little bit here and that the red wave narrative what i like to say about the red wave is that the red white wave may come but it isn't here yet and anyone who's bought into the red wave narrative as a journalist

has been reckless and irresponsible, I think, over the last few weeks. Because what we do know is that a blue wave is coming. A red wave may come to beat it, match it, and may also fall short. We're going to find out on election day. So if you can, take our viewers and listeners through the process that you engage in. So you gave an update earlier, about five hours ago or so, and we posted that one up. And then about 10 minutes before you came on this, you said, I got a new one that I've looked at the data. And so if you can, what trends are you looking for? And if you can, what trends are you looking for? And if you can, what trends have you been looking for all week that you show as indicating?

And what would have been, for example, a cause of alarm for you that you didn't see? And where's the cause of hope that you see? Yeah, I mean, the cause for alarm, so it doesn't look like I'm just completely a cheerleader here, is that, you know, I would like to be further ahead in Arizona and Nevada. I think we're, I mean, we're ahead, but I'd like to be further ahead to feel better. Feel very, very good about Georgia and Pennsylvania and Michigan and Wisconsin and Ohio. The vote there has been very, very strong.

I'm a little worried about Oregon. The data there is not so good for us. California was down a lot in what was scary for the house races there. California has gotten a lot better in recent days, a lot better, still not where we want it to be. And New York was actually trending very badly. And there are, you know, really critical house races there. And then it's gotten a lot better in the last couple of days. So, you know, a few states have

been bouncing around and have been, you know, making us a little nervous, right? But things in virtually every state in the country, everything got better in the last couple of days. That's what I mean. I mean, in terms of tracking this. And the state that's moved the country, everything got better in the last couple days. That's what I mean. I mean, in terms of tracking this. And the state that's moved the most, this is the thing to watch, right? The state that's moved the most is Texas. Federal Works, 100,000 volunteers that he has, the biggest field operation ever built in the history of Texas, is clearly moving the needle there.

I mean, he was 10 points down in the early vote a week ago. He's now only two points down in the early vote. That's a dramatic shift. And there's a lot of young people voting there. And I think, and so what I'm looking at most, the most important thing we're looking at is just how we do it, you know, and it got better almost everywhere. With one exception, I mean, there's one other state that kind of dropped a little bit, which is New Mexico, which matters because we have two competitive house races there. And I'm actually going to be doing a briefing for some New Mexico politicians tonight. My wife's from there. I've spent a lot of time out there. And I'm a little worried about what we've seen just the last few days. It feels like Republicans have had a little bit of a surge

there. So the data is not universally positive. I mean, I, and I, what I try to do is I'm just trying to give you a snapshot, a summary, right? When I do my posts on Twitter. And then for your viewers, here's how it works. In every state, the, once somebody votes, the fact that you voted becomes public, not how you voted, but that you voted. And every person has an individual ID, right? So what can happen is that Tom Bonnier at Target early takes all this data and runs it into their national voter file where they have all of us in one big database. And then they can tell that you voted and that you also, they know about your voting history.

So they know that you voted in 2020 and 2018 and 2016, and you always vote Democrat. So what they do is they look at your voting history and then they say, you know, that's a Democrat. And then they look at a Republican's voting history and they say, that's a Republican. And then there are people that are not sure where the data's not clear,

which kind of people who go back and forth, new voters, right? Those go into the unaffiliated category. But you can basically tell about 90% of voters who they are based on their vote history. And so that's, you know, because they know you voted in the Republican primary the last five times. That means you're a Republican, right? And so that's the secret sauce here.

What happens is they get updates from the Secretary of State twice a day. And that's why you'll see them update twice a day. They take all this stuff in, they run it into their incredible machine that figures all this stuff out. And then they pump it out in this amazing website they've built that's free and really easy to use. One of the things that I think also exists, though, on the Democratic side, maybe to the smallest extent possible, but there really isn't a concept of like a dino, like a Democrat in name only. And on the Republican side, you have this concept of are you a MAGA Republican or are you what the MAGA Republicans label as a rhino? And then you also have the group of whether it's unaffiliated or independent. And I don't want to draw these broad conclusions since it's not data-based and scientific, but I can tell you people flood even the comment section right now during our broadcast,

but also during some of these other videos. And I've heard tens of thousands, and that's not an exaggeration. It's literally probably 30,000, 40,000 stories of people who have shared stories. I used to consider myself a Republican, or I knew someone who considered themselves Republican, but this MAGA Republican extremist cult thing is dangerous and it's weird. And I just, I can't be part of this Trump thing. And Trump is making himself a major part of this. I think much to the chagrin of the Republican party right now, who just like, can you go away? And he's absolutely not because it's his party now. It's not their party anymore. Are you seeing anything? I know it's a long lead

up to the question, but I want to get the question. Are you seeing anything there? Is the data suggesting anything there? Or is it kind of like, we'll see, people are saying that, but we'll see? Well, as you know from my own writing, I have been raising this for months and months and months, that the effort by Republicans to convince Republicans not to vote Republican is unprecedented in the modern era. We've never seen somebody like Liz Cheney, who's such a prominent, comes from such a prominent Republican family, you know, telling Republicans not to vote Republican and putting ads on the air. Bill Kristol, a leader of the conservative movement, somebody who I never thought I'd be on the same political team with, is running $10 million worth of ads in the battleground states of Republicans telling other Republicans not to vote Republicans. And they're real people, right? There's not actors and everything else. And they've gone public with their fear of MAGA.

And in every state, in most states, I mean, in Michigan, there were 150 prominent Republicans who endorsed Whitmer. In Nevada, in Arizona, in Texas, in Pennsylvania, there have been these huge groups of prominent Republicans endorsing Democratic candidates. And so it is it's why it's I'm really glad you asked this question, because I've always believed that this was going to have a bigger impact than people understood. You know, if you're if you're a traditional Republican, which is about 20 percent, unfortunately, of the Republican Party, it's one out of five, give or take, right, of the current Republican Party. All we need to do is to peel off one-tenth of those people, right, you know, 2%, 3%, and it can have a massive impact in a very close election.

And so let me give you some actual data that this may actually be happening, right? I mean, because with this data, we don't know how these people voted, so there's no way for us to, it's unknowable from this data. But the Marist poll, which is an A-rated poll in 538 used by the New York Times, just did some polling of early voters. So now we have polling of the people who voted in three states and nationally. And so first of all, in that polling, it actually came out more Democratic than Tom Bonior's model, meaning that Tom Bonior's model in Target Early is actually conservative and maybe more Republican than the actual vote so far, which would be encouraging given that we're leading by 11 points, right? But in Arizona, where is one of those states where there could be significant crossover

voting, we have Senator Kelly up there by about four points from 2020. And they had the vote there being much more democratic than we expected based on our based on our numbers right and so what it meant was that that was some evidence that a bunch of the people that had voted in arizona were registered republicans had actually voted democrat that's the first like really concrete bit of evidence that that may be happening and we just don't know beyond that. I mean, certainly we know from these states that things are really, really close. But I think many of these polls did not anticipate the intensity of the Democratic vote. I mean, we're just seeing crazy numbers all across the country. And it's part of the reason I've been out there kind of pretty aggressively, you know,

shoving this data in everybody's face because it's sort of absent from the current national media conversation. Let me give you one other data point that I just came up with. I'm going to post for the first time. I'm going to unveil it right here. I went back and looked at 2018 and 2020 and the final early vote and then how much that was different from the actual vote, right? And so in 2018, on election day, it was about, we won by about five points in the early vote, and we ended up winning by eight and a half. So there was a three and a half point shift

from the end of the early vote, you know, which would be, you know, one more day, right? It'd be Monday. And so we're really close to the end, right? So the early vote ended up being, you know, the final vote ended up being three and a half points more in 2020. It ended up being two and a half points more Republicans. So the change from election early vote to Election Day was between two and a half and three and a half points.

The Republicans have to gain 11 points on election day, right? And in the last two elections, they only shifted by two to three points from the early vote to election day. So the task in front of them is pretty significant right now. And we've, you know, we've put up a lot, you know, we've scored a lot of points early in the game and now they're going to have to catch up. And, you know, the obvious thing we all should be thinking is which side would you rather be right you'd rather be us you'd rather be the ones who've already gotten all these votes in than the other side you know things can happen on election day nevada may have really bad weather on election day and suppress republican turnout

they could lose the election over snow in the north part and it may rain in Las Vegas, which it never does, right? So, you know, we'll see what happens. But I just want to, you know, my basic message to everybody here is, you know, this has been an incredible effort. Everyone had written soft. The media has been unbelievably negative. Everyone told us we didn't have a shot. And yet, you know, the passion and intensity of the American people, the frustrations of basic rights being taken away, we're just seeing a lot of Americans being, you know, super patriots here and fighting for the future of their country. And look, we may not win on Tuesday. We may come up short. But man, have we fought with everything we got

to keep this thing close, you to find political gravity historical odds and everything else and i'm just really proud to be part of this effort with all of you well and simon the good thing too is that many people aren't consuming these old media tropes anymore and people have moved away from it and realized that the both sides media isn't there. Heck, we started a whole network where more people watch the Midas Touch Network to get their January 6th committee coverage than any of the major networks. We're averaging more views here. Right now, we've got a massive audience, one of the largest YouTube audiences watching this right now than watching any live stream on any topic on all YouTube on a Sunday, watching us talk about the data and geek out here. But that also means that we've got a huge crowd of people

who before Tuesday can go out and do something as well. And so everyone's seen the link that's been on the screen below where you can join our phone bank with voters of tomorrow, this Monday between two and 4 PM Eastern time, we will be providing training for everybody before we start making the calls. And those calls will target young, likely democratic voters. You can check that out at bit.ly slash call young voters. That's a very cool little HTTP. I'm HTTP colon slash slash, Simon. So bit.ly, that's how you know we're targeting young voters right there. You have to type this in BIT.LY slash call young voters. It's on the YouTube right now and do that. And what's your kind of final message, Simon, to everybody who's watching this and you give these,

you're saying you're going to be speaking to the New Mexico Democrats and you give these formal briefings. But our audience now gets to get a little insight into these formal briefings. So what do you tell our audience who's saying, what can I do? What should I expect? I got 24 hours to go. What do we do? Yeah. Well, join this phone bank tomorrow.

I mean, the most important thing you can do is call young voters right now. This is absolutely the single most important thing. And I know from doing, I've done 20 hours, I did 20 hours of calls between 2021 and 2020. And young voters are often so grateful that you reached out to them. It's the actual opposite of what you would think, right? Because, you know, all of us who have kids, right? Like the idea, you know, you call your kid, they're all pissed off usually, right? That's not, I was been really surprised with how grateful young people are to be hearing from somebody and saying, hey, thank you for reminding me. Do you know where my polling location is? I just moved into this area. Remember with young people, one of the biggest inhibitors for them to vote

is that they're transient and they don't really know where to vote and they're kind of intimidated. I haven't really been to that place before. How far away is it? I don't know it. So I found in my calls that when you said, hey, you can vote on election day, it opens at seven, it closes at seven, here's where it is, it's near this Metro, which is the kind of stuff you usually have in your, in your, in your scripts, right there. I can't tell you how many times people said, thank you for calling. It's really helpful. Appreciate you reaching me out. So these are, these are friendly calls and so everyone should do it. It's really important. And I think just the final point of this is that, look, we've got a shot here and whatever you're going to do to help, whether it's to spread this show, other people can watch it, whether it's to make calls, to text, to go work in an actual field organization and go door to door in Canvas to bring people out on Election Day.

Whatever you're going to do, do a little bit more of it. Book another hour. Go for the full call time, not half of it. Just do a little bit more of it. Book another hour. Go for the full call time, not half of it. Just do a little bit more. Imagine if 500,000 or a million people do a little bit more in the next couple of days, the difference it could have. And so that's what we need. We need everybody just to do a little bit more. And finally, just thank you, everybody. I mean, thank you for caring about your country enough that you've been watching this right thank you for having the you know for all the work that

you've done we should be so proud of what we've been able to do in a time when the nation needed us to stand up we are standing up the democratic party is standing up we are showing up we are getting it done and i'm just unbelievably proud of what we've been able to do this year we are standing up. The Democratic Party is standing up. We're showing up. We are getting it done. And I'm just unbelievably proud of what we've been able to do this year. Simon Rosenberg, thank you so much for joining us. Everybody follow Simon Rosenberg on his Twitter to keep track of the minute by minute. You're posting a lot, man. I'm sorry. Sorry. At SimonWDC on Twitter. I'm glued to Simon's Twitter.

I'm glued to Tom Bonnier's Twitter. And we're going to have Tom on as well tomorrow, Simon. He's a guest tomorrow for our evening podcast. So we're focused on the data here. We appreciate you. And please give us some more updates from now until election day. I will. Thanks, everybody.

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