It's that time.

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Lock and load.

The Michael Vary Show is on the air.

It's on to me to break down the numbers, to look at where the votes came from and who showed up to vote.

And there is a science to the analysis.

People who make a living doing this.

And the candidates have access to this information

and they use it to varying degrees of success. So I thought we'd do a little post-mortem on what

happened in this election. John Cuvier is a political consultant based out of Louisiana and he commented

online some details about and his analysis of the race going into the runoff that went pretty hard into the

data and I thought that's the best I've seen posted.

So he is our guest now.

John, welcome to the program.

Good morning, Michael.

Thanks for having you on your show.

So the post that got my attention was a thread you put up going into the runoff and I'm going to read

something you wrote because most people tend to think of these things in terms of

who they like and who they don't but you made a point that in the general election, and I can't find the exact

post, but I'll summarize it, you made the point that Sheila dominated some precincts,

but that while, but that by dominating those precincts

and having a narrow batch,

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