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Floating john fetterman as potential president. we'll getting your response. >> fetterman as a nominee at some point for president. i know there's some variables, obviously. what he did in the super red, deep red parts of pennsylvania, the way he ran ahead of biden and trump, it just makes you wonder about his future. >> hmm -- presidential material, spencer? >> this is john fetterman, the man whose greatest accomplishment on the campaign trail was making crude tay a house hold name and hiding from his competitor and opponent. this is my low. this is the staggering overconfidence we've seen be...

Be careful. go ahead. your overconfidence, republicans, could hurt you because there are very, very tight races in the senate. howard: just briefly, you said all the republicans are lauding polls again and suggesting the polls seem to be favoring democratic momentum, that they were questioning the polls? >> well, i just havelied through multiple years where the polls were irrelevant and didn't make any sense, and they were undersampling trump voters, all of which had kernels of truth in it, but there was a willful distrust in polls, and now we see it's like the republicans have caught religion...

Republican party. they have a story, you know, you look at vega, an immigrant from el salvador. allan fung, blue rhode island, rated the third most liberal state in the country, and he's making inroads. and rhode island, connecticut, it's maine, the new england states, you are seeing republicans really gaining ground. i think this is indicative of a red wave when you are seeing those congressional districts move from blue to purple and possibly red. >> john: red wave, are democrats headed for higher ground to weather the storm? >> hopefully it's overconfidence, i love that mentality heading in...

A new study conducted by UC Berkeley affiliates contradicted decades-old research that depressed individuals are more realistic in determining how much control they have over their lives.

Many Americans think they know much more about politics than they really do. That overconfidence can thwart democratic politics.