After Blois offers up his take of the week, he chats with the following guests:

• MN Congressman and NRCC chair Tom Emmer gives us an update on how he believes the Midterm elections will go in just over 5 weeks from today.
• American Strategies chief executive officer Joe Goode explains his job as a political pollster and explains whether these types of polls should be trusted by the electorate-at-large.