What does G stand for?

George.

George Elliott Morris.

Yeah, I kind of thought this was common knowledge.

He's named after George Elliott and yet doesn't spell this.

I'm not named after George Elliott. That's the sad part.

It's just a happy coincidence for my family.

Hello and welcome to the 530 Politics Podcast.

I'm Gaelin Druke and also welcome to official campaign season.

Now that we're on the other side of Labor Day and summer plans and distractions are subsiding,

as tradition goes, this is when focus on political campaigns really begins to heat up.

The elections this November, like a ballot measure on abortion in Ohio,

will get some attention, but the main attraction is still the Republican presidential primary.

So today, we're going to ask a fundamental question for the four months between

now and the Iowa caucuses. Is Donald Trump's nomination inevitable?

And if not inevitable, how can we place the likelihood that he wins the Republican primary

in historical context? Also, we have partial results from two special primary elections,

from Tuesday, one in a solidly read congressional seat in Utah,

and the other in a solidly blue congressional seat in Rhode Island.

The races highlighted some of the internal divisions within the parties,

and the winners are all but certain to head to Congress.

And we also have a good or bad use of polling example on a classic

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