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Welcome back to a numbers game with Ryan Gerdusky.

Happy Monday, folks.

Hope you had a great weekend.

I know Thursday's episode was a bit of a Debbie Downer for a lot of conservatives.

I didn't have a lot of great polling information.

But I kind of do today,

and I have an interesting story that is good for everybody. It's not just good for conservatives.

It's good for literally everybody who lives in America. So on the polling, two polls have come out,

one in California and one in New York, asking if voters in those states support a mid-decade redistricting

and partisan gerrymandering. You may remember Kathy Hogle and Gavin Newsom in response to

the efforts by Governor Greg Abbott to redistrict the state and give Republicans more seats,

they threaten to do the same in their respective

states. But they do not have the same power in either New York or California because those states

have independent redistricting. The polls that had come out asked voters in those states whether

or not they would support changes to the

Constitution because both those states forbid mid-decade redistricting and forbid partisan gerrymandering.

You have to go through independent commissions and it is in the state constitution.

So you would need a rep, you need the voters to participate in the process to change

the laws. It can't just be Gavin Newsom and Kathy Hogle on their own accord, on their own whim.

So a poll from the University of Berkeley found that only 36% of Californians supported Newsom's

plan and 64% opposed. Making things worse for

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