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The Erick Erickson Show

S11 EP192: Hour 3 - The Final Pre-Election Twist

The Erick Erickson Show

Erick Erickson

News Commentary, News

4.5876 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

If you understand the nature of the independent voter you will better understand how they vote each election cycle.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our Three.

0:13.7

Hello America. It is Eric Erickson here across the nation. Glad to have you with me.

0:18.3

The phone number, 877973,725, should you wish to be on this program.

0:26.1

Those of you listening on WDBO in Orlando, Florida, glad to have you with me. It's a pleasure being live with you now, noon to 3 in Orlando.

0:36.3

And I want you to know I'm going to be there on

0:38.3

Friday in studio. If you go to WDBO.com in the sections tab, click on more and then contests,

0:46.4

and you may be able to come sit with me live. There will be food. We'll have lunch. And you can

0:52.2

watch me do my show live in Orlando on Friday.

0:56.1

That's going to be fun as we start doing this more and more around the country as we keep growing around the country.

1:01.1

Now I've got a finagle one day having enough money so I don't have to go to Delta to do these flights.

1:09.8

One day, one day, we'll get there.

1:12.0

Okay, we got other stuff to go on.

1:13.6

There is a final plot twist in 2022 campaign season.

1:19.5

Everybody has been waiting for the October surprises.

1:24.7

The October surprises are the term of phrase for that thing that happens at the very end of the election right before the undecided voters make up their mind.

1:40.3

Let's step back just a little bit so you can understand this phenomenon a little more,

1:44.7

just as someone who has done political campaigns, taught it, speak on it, know it.

1:51.9

There is a pool of voter, the undecided independent voter, that voter makes up her mind towards the end of the election. And I say her because overwhelmingly it is women. I know there are lots of jokes even among political consultants about indecisive women. But really what it is is there is a class of, and listen, you need to listen to me on this one. This one's true.

2:19.5

You need to listen here. Partisans get very frustrated by women at the end of the campaign season

2:26.9

who cannot make up their mind. And there are lots of jokes about indecisive women and things like that, but you need to

2:35.4

understand what's going on with these women. As someone who has

2:38.4

focused group to them, interviewed them, here's what's going on.

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