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Welcome back to a numbers game with Ryan Gurdowski.

Thank you all for being here.

It is Monday, September 22nd, 2025.

And we have just 43 days left until the 2025 elections in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

It is coming by fast.

We're actually only 100 days left of the year of 2025 until 2026, which is insane because

I feel like we're only halfway there, but we are three quarters through the entire year.

I just got back from the West Coast from a family vacation.

I was in California over last vacation. I was in California

over last week. I was in Carmel, which was really beautiful. It was a very cute town in California.

I had a family wedding for my cousin out in San Francisco, and then we made our way down the coast.

California is such a beautiful state. It is so such like an amazing place with such bad politics.

But I bring up the trip because it was weird how many people in that part of the country,

especially around San Francisco, just assume you're a liberal. People talk to me about politics all over the place.

The checkout girl at Target brought up Obama while I was trying to buy like a container of ice coffee.

I was like, Melissa, I'm just trying to have a day.

Like I don't need to bring up like Obama.

It was so bizarre.

The guy in front of me at the Alamo rental car, like, checkout at the airport.

He wasn't working there. He was just standing in front of me, and I complimented his tattoo.

And then he started telling me which parts of Ohio were the most progressive. I was like, do you think I care?

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