‘I’m deadly serious’: why filmmaker Michael Moore is confident of a Democratic midterm win

The Academy-award winner has been emailing a daily dose of truth' to mobilize supporters of the party to vote in November

For the past month, Academy Award-winning documentary maker Michael Moore has been emailing out a daily missive Mike's Midterm Tsunami of Truth" on why he believes Democrats will win big in America's midterm elections next month.

Moore calls it a brief honest daily dose of the truth - and the real optimism these truths offer us". It also - at this moment in time - flies in the face of most political punditry, which sees a Republican win on the cards.