Hello and It's Thursday, July 28th, and I'm Kristen Roberts, National Editor.

This week we're coming to you from the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, and here are the numbers that mattered.

269 to 269, the perfectly plausible electoral college split that leads to a tiebreaker in the house.

30,000, the number of Hillary Clinton's deleted emails that Donald Trump would like

Vladimir Putin to unearth.

0.56%, the share of a 142 million dollar pot of gold that state Democratic parties got from the Clinton fundraising agreement,

and 44 the number of minutes that Barack Obama spent taking down Trump and creating an avenue for

Hillary.

Grab your calculators and enjoy the 2016 nerdcast.

Hello to my Philly crew Ken Vogel,

Yes, Hadask Gold, and senior politics editor Charlie Matessian.

Yo.

So we've had another great week of questions from our listeners.

Let's take one from Jeffrey out on the West Coast.

Hello out there, Jeffrey.

What's your question?

Hi guys.

So I'm trying to figure out whether I'm more baffled by or more terrified by Trump's surge in the polls that was reported earlier this week even after his

Flaming tire and or garbage fire of a convention last week.

For now, this information has been more baffled to me because while

Romney lost in 2012, because the only one with white voters,

these recent polls suggest that Trump is surging despite absolutely no indication

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