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

Film-maker says the salient lesson from the midterms for Democrats is to stop depressing their own vote with pessimism, fear and conventional thinking

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".