and that's okay.

It's the first time in 44 years that the Brewers have made it to the World Series match up, and the excitement is palpable on and off the field.

Of course, the series comes at the height of the midterm elections.

Heat.

How do these high stakes events intersect?

We turn to Milwaukee's own political scientist, Mordecai Lee and Mordecai, thanks very much for being here.

>> Thanks for inviting me, Fredricka.

>> So how excited are you about this series?

>> Well, I'm very excited because I remember going to the 1957 World Series of the Milwaukee Braves.

Wow.

I was nine years old and my dad was able to finagle two tickets.

We were in the upper deck at first base, and it was one of the highlights of my life.

I still remember it vividly.

So that's what people are going to be experiencing tonight.

>> Yeah.

Are you are you going?

>> No, not unless prices drop around 5:00.

Right.

My my son is monitoring the stock market.

>> Is it true historically that voters don't tune into the midterms until the World Series is over?

>> I think living in Milwaukee for the past week, the answer would be what election?

What politics?

It's just amazing.

For example, the TV news is 100% minute to minute.

Brewers, for example, yesterday I was interviewed by a TV reporter about the debate and they never aired the story because they didn't have airtime.

After they did all the brewer coverage.

And in fact, I might have been the only one in Milwaukee who watched the debate.

I mean, that's how much people aren't paying attention.

>> Well, if all of that is true and people aren't tuning into the elections until after this, it doesn't leave people very many days before Election Day.

>> Well, it'll happen when the undecideds are ready.

And I think the Democratic primary in August is a good example that they held and they held and they held.

And then in the last 48 hours, they made up their mind.

It was almost as if they had had a conference call.

All decided what to do.

And that's how Crowley won.

I mean, it's not surprising that given Wisconsin's sort of independent political culture, that people are holding off and frankly, turned off by these commercials.

The campaigns here in Milwaukee have probably wasted $1 million just on advertising during this week, during the World Series.

>> Well, what about ads inside the World Series?

How many of those do you expect there to be, and how expensive is that?

>> They're going to be tremendously expensive, even during what used to be called commercial breaks for the local station.

And I really think that they'll have a very little impact.

You know, the spirit in Milwaukee is just sort of walking down the street is almost like in the movies, you know, when sometimes everything is frozen and people don't move except for one character.

That's how it feels to me being in Milwaukee, that all we're doing is thinking about Brewers.

Nothing else is happening.

Everybody's got a smile on their face and it's like time has frozen the.

The animal spirits have been let loose.

>> Well, that is just lovely.

Of course, everybody kind of wants to claim the Brewers as their own.

All of us.

And they are.

But candidates are kind of fast to take credit for keeping them in Milwaukee through, what, 2050?

And we know that Democratic candidate for governor, David Crowley, was really key in those negotiations to do that.

But but does any of that matter in terms of, you know, those negotiations and the law and the funding?

$500,000 of public funding that kept the brewers here?

>> You know, I really can't imagine because the story of funding of keeping the Brewers here for another 20, 25 years is the ultimate of inside baseball for politics.

In other words, the governor proposed something the Republicans refused to consider it.

The Republicans came up with their own package, and it finally passed.

And everybody took credit for it.

Except now the voters have totally forgotten it.

>> So does winning baseball and an historic World Series kind of unite people in this politically polarized climate?

>> It'll be so interesting to see what the results are.

I mean, there's a story about Buffalo that when the NFL team in Buffalo does well, everybody is smiling.

And when they do badly, everybody is down in the dumps.

I suspect it's going to be a little bit like that, because it's going to be perhaps a photo finish.

But I don't think that people want to think about politics.

I think they just want to think about happiness, about the Brewers.

And this will really affect their moods.

Going practically to Election Day.

>> Yeah, it's kind of a respite.

So I failed to ask, was it 1957 that you went with your dad and it was the Milwaukee Braves?

Did they win?

>> And they were in two World Series.

They won the 57 World Series against the Yankees, and they lost it in 58 against the Yankees.

>> So you know how it feels on both sides.

Mordecai Lee, thanks so much.

>> My pleasure.

Thank you.

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