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Now on with the show. Welcome to Beyond the Ring. This is Dale Hummel, along with co-star, Ryan Rash.

Hello, hello, hello.

Ryan, have you heard of anything called the generic ballot? Have you ever heard that term?

Generic ballot?

Generic ballot. I want to start out with something positive this week.

I have nothing positive for current events. I have a lot of things that I'm very angry about.

Very angry. I do as well,

but we're going to start on this. This email was sent to me by a good friend, and I'd never

heard of the generic ballot, but it's a political poll which asked nothing about which candidate

right now if you had to vote for Congress, would you vote Democrat, Republican, or independent? And at this point in time,

there is a 10-point lead by the Republicans on just this generic ballot. There should be

a hundred point. There should. And one poll, I think it was up to 14 points. The last time,

I think, when 2014, the Republicans had a pretty big win in Congress, I believe,

at midterms, guess what the generic ballot was for them at that point? And they flipped, I think,

at least 13 seats. They had a 2.4 lead in the generic ballot. Currently, we're somewhere

between 10 and 13 point lead. I think we should have every seat in Congress.

If I calculated correctly, it's going to be... All of them. Now, can it change between now and then?

Absolutely. No, not with this idiot in the minute running the things. Now, no, it won't change now. I agree.

If the Republicans still have a 10 point plus generic ballot lead at next fall,

I'm not saying Ryan, it'll be every seat, but that would be the largest generic ballot lead

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