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Welcome back to a numbers game with Ryan Gurdowski.

Thank you all for being here.

Happy Columbus Day.

As many of you know, I'm a proud descendant of Italian immigrants.

They came to America about 100 years ago, and they came from Sicily and Naples,

and to quote the great philosopher, Tony

Soprano in this household, Christopher Columbus is a hero. So happy Columbus Day, have a flag cookie.

If you don't know what they are, by the way, for people who don't live in a major city,

it's chocolate top and bottom with the Italian flag in the middle. Great cookie. Anyway,

but happy Columbus Day.

I hope you have a wonderful day if you're off and even if you're working and let,

don't let anyone tell you that European colonization was a bad thing. Discovering America was a

great thing and so was colonialism from Europe and ultimately it led to the founding of the greatest,

freest, and most prosperous nation ever existed. So happy Columbus Day. Now,

for the last few weeks, I have focused a lot on the elections. They're coming up in 22 days.

Yes, 22 days. So if you haven't made a plan to go vote yet, find out who's running in your area,

find out the issues that they support, make a plan, and go out and vote. Well, I start off every episode with some polling information about the

upcoming elections, but there really hasn't been many polls lately. There was only one. It was a

Trafalgar poll in Virginia. Now, let me preface by saying Trafalgar does some very good work in

the past. They did a lot of good work when Republicans

were ahead, but then they had an awful year in 2022, where they made all these projections of

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