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What can we learn from the midterms?
Voters inside polling stations. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
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We in the media, and political punditry, love a good narrative.
And for the past month, the chosen narrative was that a #Redwave would wash over America last night.
Voters had other ideas.
Democrats did indeed hold the line — though the GOP can still make gains in Congress.
Today, On Point: What are America’s voters telling their leaders and the media that neither was able to hear?
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Heather Cox Richardson, professor of American history at Boston College. Author of the Letters from an American newsletter. (@HC_Richardson)
Stephen Henderson, host of “Detroit Today” on WDET since 2015. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who worked for the Detroit Free Press, the Baltimore Sun and the Chicago Tribune. (@SHDetroit)
Tom Bonier, CEO of the Democratic political data services firm TargetSmart.
Lisa Desjardins, correspondent for PBS NewsHour. (@LisaDNews)
Jack Beatty, On Point news analyst. (@JackBeattyNPR)
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