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Welcome back to a numbers game with Ryan Grudowski.

Thank you guys for being here.

We have an exciting episode today.

We're doing an interview about a new poll that's out in the Virginia's election, both

on the favorability of the governor, as well as the referendum to redistrict that entire state

into multiple new Democratic districts. That's very interesting. We have the pollster who was more

accurate than any other one during the 2025 election. So very interested to hear what he has to say

about why Spamberger's favorability ratings seem to be going down, as well as how close really is it for this

referendum on new Democratic districts. But before we get to that, let's talk about some immigration

news from the White House. First, a story from MPR about the number of immigrants being processed

by USCIS for naturalization, meaning citizenship. It has hit a record low since the organization began taking totals back in 2022.

I preface this.

It's odd that it's only been 2022 since they started taking this kind of data.

I feel like it should be going on a lot longer.

This is the story for NPR.

Quote, during the first few months of the Trump's second term, the administration approved

a record high number of naturalizations. At the peak of 2025, 88,488 applications were

approved in one month. The largest number since the USCIS began tracking month-to-month

naturalization since 2022. But in January of this year,

that number dipped to 32,862, the lowest since USCIS began tracking that data. The decrease in

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