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You know, John, we always say that we tend to miss some of the late week news as we record

on Thursday night.

But this time we're recording actually on Friday morning.

And I stayed up and caught the debate just so we could talk about it today.

And honestly, my takeaway is election day is November 3rd, my birthday.

And all I'm asking for is that this thing just be over. I don't think I can

take any more of this election season on top of everything else that's gone on this year.

I don't know if you're good at your wish, actually, because there's more than unlikely chance

that this thing's going to go on for weeks if it ends up being contested at some level in the court.

I don't know. Maybe. I'm seeing all kinds of predictions. The folks who predicted 2016 correctly are saying that this is lining up like that.

Every other pollster is saying that that's absolutely crazy. There's no possible way that Trump closes the gap here on the election.

It was an interesting debate on a number of levels.

I thought that the moderator did quite a good job.

Of course, she had the power of the mute button, which she used very sparingly, or whoever

used it very sparingly.

It's a mutually assured destruction kind of thing.

It's like just knowing the mute button is there makes the candidates behave a lot better.

You know, I think, though, that if this had been the first debate, it would have been far

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