Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of Getting Hammered.

I am here, Mary Catherine Ham, your host, not with my friend Vic today. I know I'm throwing you a

curveball, but it's the best curveball because it's Kristen Solst Anderson, Republican pollster,

and just general, great person and buddy of mine. She also writes a newsletter called Codebook,

correct? Kristen, do I get that right? That's right. You can subscribe to and you should

because you will know all the things you need to know about polling, which we're going to ask her about

today. How are you doing, Kristen? I am doing great. I am indoors. I am air-conditioned and I am

seated in a chair. So those are at the present moment the most important boxes for me to be checking.

Very nice.

Kristen is at the moment on the precipice of motherhood.

It is summer.

It's not the greatest season to be very pregnant.

But how's prep going?

You know, I am at this point so antsy and ready to meet this baby because there's nothing

left to do. I'm normally a procrastinator. And so you would think there would be all these things

that at the last minute I'd be scrambling to do. But instead, I was just so anxious to get them all

done that like I've already washed loads of laundry.

Like I've I've organized everything.

It's now it's just this interminable waiting period.

So I'm very ready.

I am probably more of a procrastinator than you are.

And yet the hormones when I am pregnant tell me to do things and I do

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