All right. So it's election day in Virginia, Kentucky, New Jersey, Mississippi. So yeah, those four states are having some elections day. But Virginia, it's kind of a big deal because we've got the entire general assembly up for reelection. And we've had a lot of people in our community chat ask the question if we would do an episode on what it is really like running for office.

What is it like behind the scenes?

Like we all know the cheesy commercials and everything else.

And there's always questions on like, why do they do this?

Like why do politicians do this when they run for office?

Well, today I figured in honor of election day, we would talk a little

bit about why politicians do all those things that drive you nuts, like interrupt your dinner

14 times during election year in order to make sure that you vote, make sure that you get out

and vote. Why do they do all of that? So we're going to talk about that and more. Plus, we might

have a little bit, a little bit of analysis.

Christian's going to open up and prove his political prognostication skills. And I'm not going to give predictions necessarily today, but talk a little bit about what are the real indicators?

Because again, you've got polls going out there and always getting it wrong, right? So what are

the real indicators you should look at? So we're going to talk about all of that today, plus answer your questions and then I need to get to the polls. So

all of that and more coming up on this episode of making the argument brought to you by Good Ranchers.

Thank you to everyone who has helped us decide the direction of the show. And like Nick said,

this episode idea came from our community chat. So if you'd like to play a role in what episodes we do in the future, I hope you'll go down to the link in the

description, join our community chat there. We'd love to get to know you. We have a good time there

as well. All right. As always, I am your host, Nick Fratus, member of the Virginia House of Delegates for now. We'll see what happens. We'll see what happens today, Christian. Stop giving me that look.

You're going to win 61.39. I don't think so. You gave it away, Christian. I don't think 61.39. I'm going to give

him my, I think, I think maybe 58. But we'll see. We'll see. With us today, my beautiful bride is not here. She's not with us today. So I guess I just lied there, politicians. What are you going to do? She's, she's not here today. She is a little bit under the weather. She's not very good.

Didn't want to get anybody sick. And so she's not here today.

Podcast must go on. Yeah, but we still have Christian. Yay. No. We have our resident historian and

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