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Welcome back everybody here, Michael Steel Podcast.

We're geeking out on some numbers and having a fun time doing it.

You know, look, this is a masterclass in understanding how the soup tastes so good,

why it tastes so good, and how you make it, and what the end product ultimately is.

There are a lot of ingredients that go into understanding how elections take place and

how they form.

One of the things that I chuckle at, and you and I have laughed about it, is while you're

pushing this thought puzzle for people to figure out and begin to understand that, as you

said before we went to break, the results, that is the data, but the election itself can

change and can have an impact there.

You get a lot of pushback on that, and certainly most recently from one, Austin Wesley, who

pushed back on a tweet that you put out back at the end of July, where you talked about,

you know, it's hard to overstate how wrong the red wave take has been, right?

And a lot of folks pushing this idea that there's this red wave, you're like, time out people,

this is not about what you wish or hope for, this is really about what is, and you say

when you look at Senate races, Federman, Warna, Kelly, Cortez, Maestro, Hassan, all have

public polls at 49% or 50%, which goes to what we were just talking about, relative to

where the other candidates are.

You know, there are polls with Rubio, Abbott Kemp, Grassley in the 40s, and Johnson, Vance,

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