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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, hour one.

Conversationalists across the fruited plane, I welcome you to this open line Friday.

It is Eric Erickson here.

The phone number is 8779773-7-4-25 if you want to be on the program. Listen, I want to, I want to guide you if you want to make it to the program today. And I have it actually, Charlie, my apologies,

I haven't said this to you ahead of time. I'm happy to take your questions today. If you've got non-crazy

questions about the election and the state of play and the race and how campaigns work and what

they're looking for stuff. And I want to walk you through some of that today. I realize the last two

days, I just started this program

with tirades and then I've gotten a lot of feedback from a lot of people that oh that that was so good

and I always feel bad starting by yelling at everybody. Nonetheless, nonetheless, I don't want to do

that today. Actually, I didn't send out a morning email because I've been on the phones the entire

morning just trying to get a sense of what's happening out there.

And if you'll allow me at the beginning of the show today to just bring you up to speed

and educate you on the state of play of the race because there are some signs.

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