Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening, wherever you are. And welcome to the politics guys with your host, Jay Carson and Michael Baranowski.

Welcome to the politics guys. I'm Michael Barronowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.

My co-host this week, as always, is Cleveland Area Attorney and sometime Republican strategist, Jay Carson.

Here's our Ask the Politics Guys question for this week, Jay.

Okay, fire away.

Well, actually, we've got questions, plural. A whole bunch of questions, in fact, courtesy of loyal fan Emily from Reislip, UK, which is right outside of London.

And a while back, I'm sure you'll recall, Emily gathered up a bunch.

Well, she asked the question, actually, and after that, she gathered up a bunch of questions for us from her year 13 A-level government and politics class at Bishop Ramsey School, which is

taught by Ms. Robinson and Ms. Hill. Hey, everyone.

Which is very cool. We are very honored and flattered that you would submit your questions

to us. Yeah yeah we absolutely the

case so thanks and it also could be the fact that because they're in the uk they you know when we

say all kinds of goofy stuff they just they don't know any better no no i think they know better

they're they're they're a smart group and they recognize I'd like to think that we're doing something

that is at least somewhat unique here and we provide, I think, some valuable information. But

we've got questions from them. We've got, in fact, ten questions from. Wow. Okay. So we'll

hit them in the order that Emily sent them to us and we'll kind of do our best to give our rapid fire yet

oddly in-depth responses. So you're ready, Jay? Lightning round. Yeah. Okay, so you're ready?

I'm ready. Okay. First question from Hemish is Republicans and Democrats were once described by

David Broder, who's a political journalist and was political journalist in the United States, to be two bottles both empty.

Is this still the case with respect to the parties?

What do you think, Jay?

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