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I was born ready.

Welcome to the advisory opinions podcast. I'm David French with Sarah Isger and I wish listeners you could see right now Sarah and I have on our desks a red siren.

That is rotating to signify emergency advisory opinions podcast massive religious liberties decisions rendered on a day that the Supreme Court doesn't ordinarily render decisions.

And yeah, we could awaited we could awaited till our podcast taping tomorrow morning. We could have done that.

But that is not what the people want.

What the people want is analysis now.

So here's what we're going to do. We're going to talk about the Guadalupe decision that was just handed down little sisters of the poor decision that was just handed down.

I'm going to spend for you a unified theory of what is happening that I think is being vindicated in real time.

And but before we do that, we're going to get into a little polling just just for a little political spice at the start of this podcast.

And then we're going to dive into two incredibly consequential religious liberty decision decisions that are going to have a huge impact on our American culture war going forward.

So Sarah, will they?

I will, you know, it'll just mean that our culture war might be exclusively over masking from now on.

We'll see. We'll be leaving. No, I think it's going to have an impact.

We'll, yeah, I will get into it. We'll get into it. We'll get into it. All right. But before we do that, Sarah, you're a numbers person. You're our former math major.

You have some polling that is of interest.

Yeah. So look, we're in July, November is November, Yada, Yada, Yada, all the caveats that I normally give about polling and why it is a good snapshot.

Why it's a bad snapshot and what we don't know. But here's what I found interesting today.

In Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Florida, the president won by less than four points in all of those states.

And the third party candidates, Jill Stein, for instance, took about, you know, one to three percent in those states, which is all to say, that is very small, but important.

Like to quote the patriot, aim small, miss small. Right.

So, Monmouth comes out with a poll today that shows that in for basically third party candidates, not going to be a thing in 2020 for a few reasons, obviously in 2016, Jill Stein was a bigger name and the libertarian candidates were, you know, former governors, Gary Johnson.

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