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All right.

Well, it's been a slow week in politics.

That is, aside from the upcoming election,

where things have heated up to an even more frenzied frenzy as Donald Trump continues to close

the gap with Hillary Clinton. But even so, five of the six major poll aggregators say Trump

still has no better than a 15% chance or so to win.

Now, Nate Silver's 538.com is an outlier here, giving Trump a 35% chance of winning, which

is still a lot less of erased than you might think from listening to the media, I think,

much of which is saying that it's really kind of a down-to-the-wire nail-biter.

There's even some talk of an electoral

college tie, which would be incredibly high drama. So, Jay, what do you think? What's a deal here?

Is it closer than I'm saying it is? Or is this just the media kind of working people up or what?

I think it's a lot of media hype.

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