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Welcome back to a numbers game.

Thank you all for being here.

On this Thursday, I'm happy to be back with you.

I really hope you enjoyed the last episode on Monday about Congressman Corey Mills.

I may have an update in the future.

I know this isn't a gossip

podcast per se, even though my friends really want me to do a gossip podcast, but this is not it.

When I have a big scoop like that, though, that's a little bit on the gossipy side, I'm going to

share it with you because otherwise a reporter's going to scoop it and you guys should get it

first because

you're my loyal audience. I had a family reunion last week actually and one of my cousins who

listens to the pod said to me, I really like your show. There's just a little too much math in it.

So episode, I'm going to try to break that up a little bit with episodes that aren't so

math intensive. And this episode is both a little math intensive and has a narrative,

a story to it that I think is important. I'm saying that the Trump administration is doing

that people should know. So I wanted to do a catch-up episode on all the data that

has broken in the last week because I've had a lot of guess-heavy episodes and more

thematic episodes. So this one is on the 2026 midterms, right? I want to talk about the generic

ballot because it's how it will affect us in a nation, depending on who wins the

midterms. So the congressional generic ballot, which is overall how people are feeling in the

country, they don't talk about a specific race, but you know, who they are likely to support.

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