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Welcome back to a numbers game with Ryan Gurdowski.

Thank you guys for being here again.

Today's Thursday, October 16th, 2025.

The next election for your local office is coming up in 18 days.

Make a plan and go vote.

Vote by mail.

Vote early.

Vote on election day. Just make sure your

voice is heard in your local elections. Now, you usually start rambling about polls that have come out

in this party election, but it's crazy. We are in a drought of polling. Even though the election is so

close, we are in a complete drought for quality polls. The only statistic I could share with you

about an election is that in New Jersey, they broke, one of my very smart autistic friends

broke down precinct data based on race and ethnicity. And he found that in districts that are

a majority white, they are voting about 10% higher on average than districts that are a majority white, they are voting about 10% higher on average than districts

that are precincts that are majority black, Hispanic, or Asian. Now, that is interesting. So why

is it interesting? This is all mail-in ballots, by the way. If you are less likely to show up

early for your mail-in-ball. Because if you're standing, if you have an outstanding ballot, you get a ballot mail to you, and you're so enthusiastic vote, you want to go vote for Trump or Obama, whoever it is, you're going to go vote the first day you get the ballot, right? You're so excited to go vote. If you put the ballot on the table and it collects dust for week one, week two, week three, you're not that

enthusiastic to go vote. So will these people who get mail-in ballots vote? Most of them absolutely

will. But if they're not excited to go vote by mail when it's delivered to their house,

how excited will they be to show up on election day? That is a big question. That is the question that has plagued Mikey Cheryl's campaign this entire time.

She's not popular with a lot of minority voters.

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