It's a Numbers Game: The Numbers Behind Polling Data, Voter Registration Trends, and America’s Political Divide
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
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4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi. |
| 0:08.5 | Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why? |
| 0:15.1 | Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies. |
| 0:18.5 | From prologue projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco, Benghazi. |
| 0:23.9 | What difference at this point does it make? |
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| 0:32.8 | podcasts. |
| 0:35.9 | Welcome back to a numbers game with Ryan Grodesky. |
| 0:38.3 | It is Thursday, October 2nd, 2025. |
| 0:41.2 | We are just 33 days from the 2025 elections. |
| 0:44.8 | If there's an election in your area, local or state, make a plan and go vote. |
| 0:49.6 | So I want to go over a bunch of interesting data points on polls today in New Jersey nationally and the |
| 0:56.4 | big question in 2026 of if Republicans can hold the house. I've been thinking about that a lot |
| 1:02.3 | and I think there's a chance. I'm a pessimist by nature, but a lot's going on. I want to break |
| 1:09.5 | it down for you and also ask me anything. So I want to go over a bunch of interesting data on. I want to break it down for you. And also, ask me anything. |
| 1:11.7 | So I want to go over a bunch of interesting data today. I want to talk about some polling that's national. It's interesting. New Jersey. Uh, their election coming up. I know I talk a lot about New Jersey. We're going to go past New Jersey. I promise. Um, big question in 2026, if Republicans can hold the house. I am naturally a pessimist, but I have |
| 1:29.9 | reasons to be optimistic on that proposal. I'm going to break down the data for you. And then, |
| 1:34.4 | of course, ask me anything. But first, I want to talk about the government shutdown. So for |
| 1:39.3 | those who missed it, and it is easy to miss, let's face it, Congress did not pass their spending package, and it has a lot to do with the subsidies in the Affordable Care Act known as Obamacare. I'm not going to give you details, but the negotiations because things are moving so quickly, but by the time this episode, you know, recording the day before, by the time the episode comes out tomorrow and by the time that you hear |
| 2:00.8 | it may be the day after the news may be over so there's no point to that but i want to talk about |
| 2:05.2 | the bigger picture of what's going on and that's why senate democrats and specifically chuck |
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