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Okay, so we've got a variety of topics to talk about.

I'm going to talk about the little bit about the TIF between Nate Silver, the Polster Guy, and Alan Lichtman, the political science

professor, whoever talked about on this show and the author of the Keys to the

presidency and both of them squabbling over presidential

predictions why I think the fight is silly but I also want to defend Lickerman a

little bit because I think he's getting it on Twitter and it's

undeserved. We're also going to tell hey listen vice presidential debate

coming up we'll see how it goes.

It is notable that we are close to 50 years

of Vice Presidential debate, so that first one

was 1976 between Bob Dole and Walter Mondale.

Was it effective?

Yes, because Bob Dole comes in swinging calling Vietnam and World War II.

I mean, he doesn't name the wars, but he calls wars, Democrat wars and blames them

basically for starting wars in history.

Not a good performance, not a good look as we say now and

actually a little bit of a boost for Carter Mondale in a campaign where really everything counted because the polls were so

We'll see what happens with Wals and J.D. Vance they're both new, which means expectations aren't as much as a factor.

I will say this. I noted that when Walsh was picked as a Democrats vice presidential candidate that he continued to say I

can't wait to debate JD Vance and that struck me as something silly to say because you don't want to send expectations high.

You want to keep expectations low and you certainly don't want to say anything like I'm going to win the debate all of that I think since then there hasn't been as many of those type of statements and

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