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Welcome back to a numbers game with Ryan Gurdowski.

It is Monday, October 6, 2025.

There are 29 days left till the 2025 elections.

There are local elections happening all over the country, including Virginia, New Jersey,

New York, and Pennsylvania, make a plan to go vote, vote by mail, including Virginia, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.

Make a plan to go vote, vote by mail, vote early, vote on election day, whatever you need to do,

just remember to go vote in these local elections.

Local elections matter much more than the national elections to your everyday life,

even though they are not nearly as sexy and they don't have many people

show up to vote. Now, I know I told many frequent listeners this podcast. I was going to do an

episode on Virginia last Monday and then I pushed it back a week to focus on New Jersey because

they'd all that breaking news. And it's a good thing because so much information regarding the

Virginia election happened over the last week that I would have missed out on it had I otherwise done it, you know, on time.

So it's great that we didn't rush.

Okay.

First things first.

Let's talk about polling.

Now, remember, polls are not predictors of the future.

They are snapshots of the present.

I remind everybody that because people

believe that a poll said something therefore it's going to happen or likely to happen. It is just how

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