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should be reading right as I go on here it distracts me now I I we got to we got to

talk about some polling that's out there I got an email the other day by someone.

He wasn't, it wasn't an angry email.

It wasn't hate.

It was just inquiry.

Why are you citing polling, given your own admission that polling has kind of been farcical

of late?

Well, the key is to figure out who are the good pollsters and who are the

bad pollsters and read the underlying data within the polling. In large part, live operator,

telephone polling that includes mobile phones still got 2022 pretty good. The problem was that the

massive polls that were out there in 2022 were online

polls or polls that undercounted mobile numbers. There were a lot of robopoles. The Trafalgar

polling actually is what threw off most of the polling. If you deleted the Trafalgar polling nationwide,

you suddenly would have seen

2022 a clearer picture of 2022. You and I wouldn't have believed it based on our sense of what

was actually happening, but it turned out that the Trafalgar polling and a lot of the other

Republican robo polling out there produced a lot of polls that gave Republicans more confidence than they

should have had and skewed the picture of what was happening on the ground. You got rid of those

bad polls, you would have seen a more accurate snapshot. The polling in 2022 was only as bad as

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