joining us now, national political correspondent for "the new york times," lisa lehrer. her latest reporting is entitled "at campaign's end, democrats see limits of focus on abortion." >> and of course, you know, reporters don't write the headlines. but i love this headline. >> do you? i wrote this one. no, no. >> exactly. >> midterms, angst and competence. again, republicans should have a massive night. it's just impossible to tell. you talk to democrats in new york, they're freaked out. talk to democrats in pennsylvania, it's all pretty good. talk to democrats in nevada -- i mean, it seems everything is breaking different ways. >> and anyone who tells you they know what's going to happen is lying to you. we live in an extraordinary time. this is the first post-roe, post january 6th, post-pandemic maybe kind of election. we've never lived through this before. the pollsters have no idea if they're right. they think they're right, but maybe assumptions that others are wrong. democrats really excited, but we don't know. we know republicans -- we don't know how many are com