trying to make a joke quoting now. the question is is this dark on its way to light? i want to show you something that we re unveiling here, we re calling it the meet the midterms dashboard. it s going to tell you what shape, where are we headed for the party in power. we have four columns here, shellacking as you can see previous midterms, 2010, 2014, 94, 06 all midterms where one party, the party out of power, picked up seats in both chambers. 18 just missed being a shellacking because republicans while they lost house seats picked up a senate seat and then 98 and 02 were places where the party in power actually picked up seats. i m going to show you how we determine this and how you can follow national poll numbers. basically there are three poll numbers you can follow nationally that will tell you the likely shape of these midterm elections, direction of country, right track, wrong track, the presidential job rating and the generic ballot. let me show you what these