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The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

‘I never doubted it’: why film-maker Michael Moore forecast ‘blue tsunami’ in midterms

Michael Moore: ‘There are more of us than them'.’
Michael Moore: ‘There are more of us than them'.’ Photograph: Anthony Harvey/PA

In the lead-up to last week’s midterm elections in America, the punditocracy of commentators, pollsters and political-types were almost united: a “red wave” of Republican gains was on the cards.

But one dissenting voice stood out: that of leftist filmmaker Michael Moore. Against all the commonplace predictions, he had forecast Democrats would do well. He called it a “blue tsunami”.

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