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We&#x27;ve got a great show coming up for you today,

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including,

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you know,

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we talked a lot about bad news for Republicans.

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What&#x27;s the good news?

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Is there a best case scenario we should look at

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for the midterms?

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Here we go.

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Welcome to Predictable with Stu.

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A lot of great stuff to get to,

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uh,

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today.

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I wanna start with the,

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the election.

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We are,

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uh,

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what,

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I have been here 42 days now

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until the election.

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Yeah,

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6 weeks away.

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Early voting has started already,

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but we&#x27;ll give you some of the details on that maybe later,

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um,

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but I wanted to kind of get into

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one of the ways that we&#x27;re thinking about this election.

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And it ties into sort of an active thesis statement

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that we have.

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We do this from time to time

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a general

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way we&#x27;re thinking about an election,

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a way we&#x27;re thinking about a market or just a general um prediction market take

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that we sort of apply,

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not necessarily as a,

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it&#x27;s like not the law of gravity here,

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but like something that kind of influences our thinking as we

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go through these markets on a day to day basis,

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and we have a new active thesis.

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This is one of the things that&#x27;s influenced us as we&#x27;ve approached the election,

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which is to look at elections where we can find value

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and we think there&#x27;s still some movement that might come

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a little bit later on because you,

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a lot of these elections,

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people don&#x27;t realize you can kind of wait,

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you don&#x27;t have to necessarily get months and months ahead.

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We saw this in the primaries over and over and over again though,

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246 weeks ahead.

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what looked like a sure thing at 85 instead of 95.

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You got it at 75 instead of 90.

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why not?

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The reason I bring this up is because we are now looking

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an election that is 6 weeks away,

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and it&#x27;s important to kind of try to get a little bit ahead

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of these markets,

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so you&#x27;re not necessarily trading on election night,

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because you might not get the value that you need there.

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pouring into these election markets,

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and we&#x27;re trying to get a little bit ahead of that.

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how do you project what&#x27;s going to happen next?

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The active thesis that we have has been leading our thinking a little bit on this

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this isn&#x27;t universally true,

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but it is something that usually happens.

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you look at the way that you,

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you get a lot of people who are hyper engaged that are talking to pollsters

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time goes on.

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This is 2026 in America,

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We&#x27;re now all hyper-engaged in election content.

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This is not back in the day where people really

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but they&#x27;re not picking it up months and months and months ahead for the main,

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main part.

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If you&#x27;re watching this show,

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you probably did,

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you probably know all these candidates by now.

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you&#x27;re way ahead of everybody else on this stuff.

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when people start paying attention to this,

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they typically will,

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maybe express frustration early on.

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I don&#x27;t think my side&#x27;s doing a good job,

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and then as times get closer,

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as you get closer to actually stepping into that booth,

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that&#x27;s a big moment in your life,

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right?

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It&#x27;s one of your,

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your big,

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privileges of being in this country is to be able

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to go to the polls and then cast that vote.

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you start taking it a little bit more seriously,

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I don&#x27;t care,

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these parties are the same.

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in a booth with a curtain closed behind you.

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as we get closer to the election.

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the general inertia of what you might expect out of a state or an electorate

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winds up playing in not a

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dominating way,

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not a fifteen-point move,

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but a few points here and there that helps move those,

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numbers a little bit more

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a lot of times it goes blue.

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from time to time in these elections.

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it does affect the way that we&#x27;re thinking.

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depending on how you look at this,

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there are a lot of statistics that will

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add up to say,

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hey,

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wait a minute,

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maybe this isn&#x27;t gonna be the catastrophe that,

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that the GOP

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is certainly,

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facing right now.

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If you look at the media,

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that is what you&#x27;re seeing.

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You&#x27;re seeing constant

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catastrophe talk for Republicans.

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I tend to dismiss catastrophes.

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I tend to think that the,

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the outlier circumstances don&#x27;t normally occur.

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that&#x27;s my,

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a somewhat of an internal bias.

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But when you look at the elections now,

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this show has felt that way,

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and the reason why this show has felt that way a little bit recently is

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because the data has shown that that&#x27;s the way that these things are going.

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I don&#x27;t know,

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there&#x27;s a 5% chance of utter catastrophe

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for the,

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Republican Party in this,

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and we should really start pricing it,

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like looking at states that Republicans should win easily and,

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I&#x27;ve definitely expanded that.

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I think it&#x27;s more like a 15% chance maybe now.

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Maybe it&#x27;s even a 20% chance.

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some people who are crunching these numbers think it&#x27;s more like a 50%,

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a 70% chance.

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I don&#x27;t,

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I don&#x27;t agree with that analysis,

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at least not yet.

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The data will move me if it,

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if the data moves.

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but that&#x27;s what I see right now.

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I see a situation where we&#x27;re,

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possibility of Democrats really

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crushing it here and wiping out a bunch of states that should be red,

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is a,

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it&#x27;s a real possibility now,

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though I still think it&#x27;s a minority possibility.

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I wanna look the other way though,

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as we&#x27;ve seen in elections before,

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we don&#x27;t always get what we thought we were getting.

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in 2022,

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there was a red wave that was supposed to come,

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kind of wound up being like a red trickle,

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frankly.

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you know,

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Republicans took the House,

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which was the minimum that they need to do,

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needed to do,

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but they,

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that was not a runaway wave by any means for Republicans.

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looked like a big wave for Democrats.

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We kind of got them.

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Big wave for Democrats in 2018.

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good looking back at the previous,

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midterm elections.

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you know,

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2014

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was a very,

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very good year for Republicans,

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uh,

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in that midterm.

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20,

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2010 was probably the best year for Republicans in the midterm,

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at least in the last century.

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I mean,

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it was a wave election.

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That we haven&#x27;t seen in a long time.

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And I,

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you know,

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I can tell you that a lot of people did not think that was coming.

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A lot of people thought the Tea Party was just

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this thing that was not going to make any impact,

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made a big impact,

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and it was the biggest wave election.

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in basically a century,

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uh,

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for Republicans

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in 2010.

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So that&#x27;s kind of the history of this.

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Let me give you a couple of pieces of data here,

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and there&#x27;s,

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there&#x27;s some interesting,

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uh,

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data that backs up what I&#x27;m talking about here.

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Not necessarily always about just coming home,

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but sometimes just

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how polls

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typically understate

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Democrats during the late summer months.

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Um,

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a great piece written by Patrick Ruffini,

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Why Senate Polling

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Is Always Worse

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in the Summer.

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He,

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it&#x27;s a very long article.

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I would encourage you to go read the entire thing if you&#x27;re interested in it,

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but I wanna give you some of the data points here that he notes,

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and it&#x27;s,

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it&#x27;s,

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I think,

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uh,

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quite interesting.

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And it,

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I don&#x27;t know,

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it kind of connects too to just the way that I&#x27;ve felt about some of these,

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uh,

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midterm elections over the years.

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Um,

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OK,

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Senate polls have missed in the same direction for 4 straight cycles.

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This is the first chart I want to start you,

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but kind of a chart of Palooza today.

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Yeah.

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Uh,

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it&#x27;s kind of a chart of Palooza today.

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Uh,

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you see,

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uh,

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and I&#x27;ll describe this,

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of course,

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if you are,

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uh,

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on podcast audio only.

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By the way,

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we love you on podcast.

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If you,

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uh,

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We love to see,

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we see many of you,

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uh,

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have,

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and we appreciate it.

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Uh,

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you see the chart kind of peak

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in,

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uh,

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you know,

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a little bit earlier.

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Uh,

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in the summer,

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and,

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uh,

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from where this was written.

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This was written,

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by the way,

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in

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on August 18th,

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so we&#x27;re about a month,

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uh,

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this is about a month ago,

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keep this in mind.

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You see,

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uh,

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the,

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the chart peaks for Democrats and

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the,

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the difference here and what we&#x27;re,

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what this black line is showing.

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Is,

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um,

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the difference between what polls,

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uh,

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showed and where they kind of turned out.

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Election day,

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uh,

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they missed in,

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uh,

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along this,

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uh,

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area

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by about 2.6 points favoring the Democrats.

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The polls were in favor of the Democrats by about 2.5 points.

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But if you go back to late summer,

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it was more like 6 points,

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right?

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So a,

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a 43 to 4 point move.

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Toward Republicans as polls started locking in,

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and I think Republican voters started locking in.

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You see the same thing here,

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and one thing that&#x27;s interesting in this next chart

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shows the difference between presidential years and midterm years,

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and we do see a pretty big divergence here

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in that presidential years,

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yeah,

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you saw a miss,

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you saw a much bigger miss though,

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when it came

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to midterm years.

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Midterm years tended to favor Democratic candidates in summer polling.

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More

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than

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in the presidential years,

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and that may be somewhat Trump-specific.

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I mean,

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Trump is

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the type of guy who,

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uh,

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brings out a lot of voters who don&#x27;t normally come out.

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And so,

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uh,

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that might be the reason why.

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Maybe it&#x27;s not a long term thing.

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We&#x27;ll have to kind of see a few more cycles

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turn out here,

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but this has been pretty typical.

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What we&#x27;ve seen is Democrats look really,

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really good

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in the summer,

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and then things start tightening up later on.

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You can see the difference here once again in

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this next chart between presidential years and midterms,

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and

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you see the line is,

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is,

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is there&#x27;s a significant divergence there

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by,

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you know,

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a few points.

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It&#x27;s several points,

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4 or 5 point difference.

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Between those two margins.

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One more chart I&#x27;ll show you real quick from uh Patrick&#x27;s piece,

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which is great.

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Um,

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uh,

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kind of just how it changes by state.

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This is an interesting chart if you&#x27;re looking at

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What states should I target?

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This is just something to think about.

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It&#x27;s not an end all be all,

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but it&#x27;s,

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it&#x27;s a,

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it&#x27;s an interesting thing

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to,

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uh,

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to think about and to maybe look at a little

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piece of evidence when you&#x27;re targeting a particular state.

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Which states have been looked more Democrat

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in the polling leading up and as opposed to where they,

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uh,

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wound up.

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You see major,

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major differences.

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South Dakota might be the biggest on there,

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a 13.7 point difference,

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um.

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You know,

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uh,

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there&#x27;s a couple of different ways he&#x27;s broken this down.

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If you look at the chart on the right of your screen,

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how adjusted for how the state was polled,

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you see really,

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like,

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you know,

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you see Maine is an example there,

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Michigan is an example.

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There&#x27;s no surprise that Michigan,

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Wisconsin,

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Pennsylvania are all more blue.

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The,

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the red differences are very minimal.

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You see a couple of states that tended to be a little bit more red.

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Utah being the biggest one.

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I do wonder though if that is partially because

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Of,

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uh,

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they&#x27;ve been trying to run independence there,

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uh,

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against,

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uh,

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the Republicans there.

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So that could be part of the reason.

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But

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Republicans,

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you know,

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in Utah,

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it&#x27;s like,

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are they gonna win by 78 or 65?

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You know,

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it&#x27;s not

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all that competitive.

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But,

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uh,

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you see that generally speaking,

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polls have been right in some states,

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uh,

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Nevada,

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Texas,

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uh,

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Minnesota,

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Georgia,

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very,

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very close,

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uh,

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even Maryland,

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very,

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very close to where,

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uh,

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you&#x27;d expect it to be.

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Other states,

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not so much.

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So,

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you have that.

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And now,

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let me show you another piece of information

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that is interesting from very recent history,

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and there&#x27;s a,

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there&#x27;s an asterisk around this a little bit,

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but

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let&#x27;s go to the Kamala Harris versus Donald Trump polling.

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Remember,

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Joe Biden,

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um,

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you know,

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first of all,

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he fell off his bike too,

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so don&#x27;t just make fun of me.

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He falls off,

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falls off his bike,

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then falls out of the campaign.

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Um,

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and he,

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uh,

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Kamala Harris runs.

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Kamala Harris has this,

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uh,

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an interesting arc.

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Let&#x27;s bring up this,

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uh,

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these polls.

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This is from 2024,

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and the final results were Trump by,

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uh,

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about a point and a half,

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uh,

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if I&#x27;m reading that right.

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But if you kind of look at the polls as they added up here,

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it&#x27;s pretty close,

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right?

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This was a very close,

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people overstate how much of a,

573
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uh,

574
00:12:47.280 --> 00:12:47.350
uh,

575
00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:47.630
you know,

576
00:12:47.720 --> 00:12:49.700
led off by Donald Trump himself,

577
00:12:49.920 --> 00:12:51.750
saying this was the biggest wave election of all time.

578
00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:52.230
It was not.

579
00:12:52.250 --> 00:12:53.230
It was a close election.

580
00:12:53.720 --> 00:12:53.830
Uh,

581
00:12:54.000 --> 00:12:55.870
he won all 7 swing states,

582
00:12:55.920 --> 00:12:58.980
which is why it&#x27;s kind of understandable to think it was a blowout.

583
00:12:59.200 --> 00:13:00.030
But generally speaking,

584
00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:01.380
those were pretty close

585
00:13:01.520 --> 00:13:01.910
states.

586
00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:02.190
I mean,

587
00:13:02.460 --> 00:13:03.380
Trump needed,

588
00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:03.710
uh,

589
00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:04.550
a bunch of those states,

590
00:13:04.570 --> 00:13:04.750
and,

591
00:13:04.770 --> 00:13:04.910
you know,

592
00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:06.420
some of those states were less than 1 point.

593
00:13:06.680 --> 00:13:06.750
Uh,

594
00:13:07.010 --> 00:13:07.110
anyway,

595
00:13:07.240 --> 00:13:08.150
so you look at these states,

596
00:13:08.230 --> 00:13:08.870
a lot of ties,

597
00:13:08.920 --> 00:13:09.320
a lot of ties,

598
00:13:09.400 --> 00:13:10.880
but if you kind of scroll back a little bit.

599
00:13:11.010 --> 00:13:12.390
October and November

600
00:13:12.520 --> 00:13:13.800
as we get right into the election.

601
00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:15.800
There&#x27;s a nice ad for Sentex

602
00:13:16.040 --> 00:13:17.220
and uh uh

603
00:13:17.320 --> 00:13:18.470
uh another place to click to proceed.

604
00:13:18.560 --> 00:13:19.390
But if you kind of scroll down,

605
00:13:19.440 --> 00:13:19.750
here we go,

606
00:13:19.800 --> 00:13:21.350
we&#x27;ll get into the later dates here

607
00:13:21.560 --> 00:13:22.430
as we scroll back.

608
00:13:22.640 --> 00:13:23.350
October,

609
00:13:23.440 --> 00:13:26.470
and now we&#x27;re getting into uh where we are now and what you see here,

610
00:13:26.600 --> 00:13:26.680
look at,

611
00:13:26.760 --> 00:13:26.930
I mean,

612
00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:28.300
look at what we have on screen right now.

613
00:13:29.230 --> 00:13:29.520
Harris,

614
00:13:29.580 --> 00:13:29.870
Harris,

615
00:13:29.970 --> 00:13:30.280
Harris,

616
00:13:30.350 --> 00:13:30.680
Harris,

617
00:13:30.750 --> 00:13:31.080
Harris,

618
00:13:31.150 --> 00:13:31.480
Harris,

619
00:13:31.550 --> 00:13:31.840
Harris,

620
00:13:31.930 --> 00:13:32.240
Harris,

621
00:13:32.310 --> 00:13:32.740
Harris,

622
00:13:32.950 --> 00:13:33.330
Trump

623
00:13:33.470 --> 00:13:34.020
by 2.

624
00:13:34.310 --> 00:13:34.600
Harris,

625
00:13:34.690 --> 00:13:35.010
Harris,

626
00:13:35.070 --> 00:13:35.200
Harris,

627
00:13:35.220 --> 00:13:35.400
Harris,

628
00:13:35.460 --> 00:13:35.950
Harris,

629
00:13:36.230 --> 00:13:37.050
Trump by 2.

630
00:13:37.270 --> 00:13:37.540
Harris,

631
00:13:37.620 --> 00:13:37.900
Harris,

632
00:13:37.960 --> 00:13:38.340
Harris,

633
00:13:38.550 --> 00:13:39.210
Trump by 2.

634
00:13:39.350 --> 00:13:39.630
Harris,

635
00:13:39.710 --> 00:13:39.980
Harris,

636
00:13:40.070 --> 00:13:40.360
Harris,

637
00:13:40.410 --> 00:13:40.680
Harris,

638
00:13:40.780 --> 00:13:41.110
Harris,

639
00:13:41.230 --> 00:13:41.620
Ty,

640
00:13:41.750 --> 00:13:42.030
Harris,

641
00:13:42.070 --> 00:13:42.300
Harris,

642
00:13:42.350 --> 00:13:42.580
Harris,

643
00:13:42.630 --> 00:13:42.740
I mean,

644
00:13:42.790 --> 00:13:43.290
look at this.

645
00:13:43.390 --> 00:13:44.230
This is all

646
00:13:44.670 --> 00:13:46.690
Kamala Harris favored in this period.

647
00:13:46.950 --> 00:13:47.490
Harris,

648
00:13:47.710 --> 00:13:47.770
uh,

649
00:13:47.910 --> 00:13:50.220
it&#x27;s hard to remember that this occurred.

650
00:13:50.570 --> 00:13:52.870
But Kamala Harris was leading at this point

651
00:13:53.170 --> 00:13:54.160
in the 2020,

652
00:13:54.330 --> 00:13:55.760
the most recent election,

653
00:13:56.050 --> 00:13:57.320
Kamala Harris was leading,

654
00:13:57.530 --> 00:13:58.200
and then of course,

655
00:13:58.430 --> 00:13:59.420
wound up losing,

656
00:13:59.490 --> 00:14:00.640
not just the electoral vote,

657
00:14:00.660 --> 00:14:01.980
but also the popular vote.

658
00:14:02.330 --> 00:14:02.560
Now,

659
00:14:02.730 --> 00:14:05.030
part of this was the arc of the Harris campaign,

660
00:14:05.210 --> 00:14:06.860
which came in in July,

661
00:14:07.210 --> 00:14:07.360
took,

662
00:14:07.490 --> 00:14:08.760
went to kind of new heights in.

663
00:14:08.870 --> 00:14:09.440
August

664
00:14:09.620 --> 00:14:11.240
and then started to fade

665
00:14:11.380 --> 00:14:12.280
through September

666
00:14:12.420 --> 00:14:13.330
and October,

667
00:14:13.580 --> 00:14:14.480
but still,

668
00:14:14.700 --> 00:14:15.050
uh,

669
00:14:15.700 --> 00:14:17.540
this stuff happens often.

670
00:14:17.820 --> 00:14:19.770
It was still a close race and wound up being a close race,

671
00:14:19.830 --> 00:14:21.500
so there wasn&#x27;t like 20 point movement here.

672
00:14:21.540 --> 00:14:22.880
I&#x27;m not trying to make that case,

673
00:14:23.020 --> 00:14:23.910
but there was some movement here.

674
00:14:23.980 --> 00:14:25.970
Let me give you a couple of other pieces of data that we&#x27;re again,

675
00:14:26.010 --> 00:14:27.080
we&#x27;re laying out today.

676
00:14:27.460 --> 00:14:29.160
The most optimistic case possible

677
00:14:29.420 --> 00:14:30.170
for Republicans.

678
00:14:30.260 --> 00:14:31.050
How can they do here?

679
00:14:31.180 --> 00:14:31.550
Well,

680
00:14:31.780 --> 00:14:31.970
um,

681
00:14:32.100 --> 00:14:32.840
let me give you this.

682
00:14:33.180 --> 00:14:34.290
I&#x27;ve mentioned this several times.

683
00:14:34.420 --> 00:14:36.150
The polling has gotten much worse

684
00:14:36.490 --> 00:14:37.840
for Republicans

685
00:14:37.940 --> 00:14:39.090
over the past couple of weeks.

686
00:14:39.300 --> 00:14:40.160
Why is that?

687
00:14:40.580 --> 00:14:43.320
YouGov has a really nice example and it shows you

688
00:14:43.580 --> 00:14:45.140
why that is partially.

689
00:14:45.530 --> 00:14:46.760
In this particular case,

690
00:14:46.850 --> 00:14:47.320
this is their,

691
00:14:47.450 --> 00:14:47.490
uh,

692
00:14:47.610 --> 00:14:49.440
how many Democrats plan to vote for uh

693
00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:51.310
how many Americans have planned to vote for Democrats

694
00:14:51.450 --> 00:14:53.600
and Republicans for Congress in 2026.

695
00:14:53.650 --> 00:14:55.310
This is known as the generic ballot,

696
00:14:55.470 --> 00:14:56.990
and what you see here is a split

697
00:14:57.250 --> 00:14:58.240
between Republicans and Democrats.

698
00:14:58.490 --> 00:14:59.880
Democrats certainly favored and have been

699
00:14:59.880 --> 00:15:01.590
favored since they started taking this poll

700
00:15:01.730 --> 00:15:02.760
at the beginning of the year.

701
00:15:03.080 --> 00:15:03.150
Uh,

702
00:15:03.240 --> 00:15:04.710
it has been 3 or 4 points,

703
00:15:04.850 --> 00:15:04.860
uh,

704
00:15:05.040 --> 00:15:08.390
has grown over the past few weeks to about 6 or 7 points

705
00:15:08.950 --> 00:15:09.420
until

706
00:15:09.520 --> 00:15:10.310
they make this change.

707
00:15:10.400 --> 00:15:12.670
You see a dotted line here that signifies this change.

708
00:15:13.060 --> 00:15:14.360
It was about 7 points.

709
00:15:14.540 --> 00:15:18.250
Now they are showing a 14-point lead

710
00:15:18.620 --> 00:15:19.500
for Democrats.

711
00:15:19.710 --> 00:15:20.390
You might ask,

712
00:15:20.500 --> 00:15:22.160
how the hell does that chart

713
00:15:22.520 --> 00:15:23.600
get into

714
00:15:23.880 --> 00:15:24.150
the,

715
00:15:24.220 --> 00:15:25.200
uh,

716
00:15:25.860 --> 00:15:28.240
the conversation about the most optimistic

717
00:15:28.530 --> 00:15:30.420
possible moment here for the GOP?

718
00:15:30.460 --> 00:15:31.680
And that&#x27;s a great question,

719
00:15:31.810 --> 00:15:33.450
because a 14-point generic ballot

720
00:15:33.700 --> 00:15:34.160
is.

721
00:15:34.840 --> 00:15:36.070
Utter catastrophe.

722
00:15:36.160 --> 00:15:36.310
I mean,

723
00:15:36.400 --> 00:15:36.550
I,

724
00:15:36.680 --> 00:15:36.840
like,

725
00:15:36.880 --> 00:15:37.540
it is

726
00:15:38.160 --> 00:15:38.750
2018,

727
00:15:38.770 --> 00:15:39.190
you think of,

728
00:15:39.280 --> 00:15:41.190
I think that&#x27;s the beginning of catastrophe levels.

729
00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:42.210
2018,

730
00:15:42.560 --> 00:15:42.710
very,

731
00:15:42.830 --> 00:15:44.150
very bad year for Republicans.

732
00:15:44.280 --> 00:15:45.860
Everything kind of went the wrong way.

733
00:15:46.370 --> 00:15:49.830
That is like the beginning of what I would call catastrophe land,

734
00:15:49.920 --> 00:15:51.020
and that is where the,

735
00:15:51.160 --> 00:15:51.660
uh,

736
00:15:51.720 --> 00:15:52.270
the voters,

737
00:15:52.360 --> 00:15:52.550
uh,

738
00:15:52.800 --> 00:15:56.010
seem to be when you look at an average poll right around 2018.

739
00:15:58.270 --> 00:15:59.020
The difference there,

740
00:15:59.110 --> 00:15:59.780
that dotted line,

741
00:15:59.910 --> 00:16:00.500
what it signifies,

742
00:16:00.550 --> 00:16:02.620
and then we have another chart here that shows the kind of the same thing,

743
00:16:02.740 --> 00:16:03.420
same dotted line.

744
00:16:03.510 --> 00:16:03.900
This is the,

745
00:16:03.950 --> 00:16:04.030
uh,

746
00:16:04.150 --> 00:16:04.940
YouGov again,

747
00:16:05.160 --> 00:16:05.820
who&#x27;s leading among,

748
00:16:05.910 --> 00:16:06.070
uh,

749
00:16:06.350 --> 00:16:07.260
in the generic ballot.

750
00:16:07.390 --> 00:16:07.500
Uh,

751
00:16:07.760 --> 00:16:07.940
again,

752
00:16:07.990 --> 00:16:10.450
you see a +7 for registered voters.

753
00:16:11.070 --> 00:16:12.730
Likely voters is +14.

754
00:16:12.950 --> 00:16:16.380
YouGov just turned on their likely voter screen,

755
00:16:16.590 --> 00:16:17.450
and what that does,

756
00:16:17.510 --> 00:16:18.690
I&#x27;ve talked about it a few times,

757
00:16:18.790 --> 00:16:19.740
is basically say,

758
00:16:19.830 --> 00:16:20.250
hey,

759
00:16:20.670 --> 00:16:20.780
yeah,

760
00:16:20.910 --> 00:16:21.580
sure you&#x27;re registered,

761
00:16:21.630 --> 00:16:23.010
but are you actually gonna show up?

762
00:16:23.790 --> 00:16:25.030
Are you actually going to

763
00:16:25.530 --> 00:16:25.760
You could,

764
00:16:25.890 --> 00:16:26.840
you could show that chart a little bit longer.

765
00:16:26.890 --> 00:16:26.930
Uh,

766
00:16:27.490 --> 00:16:28.790
actually gonna show up to the polls.

767
00:16:29.650 --> 00:16:30.470
That is a,

768
00:16:30.530 --> 00:16:31.320
a big question.

769
00:16:31.410 --> 00:16:32.590
You see that split

770
00:16:32.690 --> 00:16:33.520
that we&#x27;re talking about here,

771
00:16:33.570 --> 00:16:36.120
that purple line at the top shows likely voters plus 14,

772
00:16:36.210 --> 00:16:38.200
while registered voters are still showing +7.

773
00:16:38.290 --> 00:16:41.910
Now registered voters plus 7 for Democrats is still a bad year for Republicans,

774
00:16:42.250 --> 00:16:43.840
but a lot of the movement you&#x27;ve seen,

775
00:16:43.970 --> 00:16:45.830
a lot of the catastrophe talk

776
00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:47.800
comes from changes like this,

777
00:16:48.090 --> 00:16:48.960
where we&#x27;re seeing a,

778
00:16:49.090 --> 00:16:49.430
uh,

779
00:16:50.090 --> 00:16:50.280
the,

780
00:16:50.470 --> 00:16:52.880
these pollsters are putting in their likely voter screens,

781
00:16:53.050 --> 00:16:54.030
and this is stuff like.

782
00:16:54.520 --> 00:16:54.820
Uh,

783
00:16:55.400 --> 00:16:57.510
this is stuff like asking basic questions.

784
00:16:57.720 --> 00:16:58.130
Hey,

785
00:16:58.480 --> 00:16:59.770
you&#x27;ve registered to vote,

786
00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:00.510
uh,

787
00:17:00.760 --> 00:17:01.030
you know,

788
00:17:01.150 --> 00:17:01.500
you can,

789
00:17:01.580 --> 00:17:01.830
uh,

790
00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:02.670
now,

791
00:17:03.240 --> 00:17:04.310
are you likely to show up?

792
00:17:04.420 --> 00:17:04.510
Like,

793
00:17:04.599 --> 00:17:04.950
for example,

794
00:17:05.069 --> 00:17:05.790
you&#x27;ve registered to vote,

795
00:17:05.839 --> 00:17:07.390
but you haven&#x27;t voted in 5 straight elections.

796
00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:08.349
Are you likely to vote?

797
00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:09.599
Probably not.

798
00:17:09.760 --> 00:17:10.470
Some people just ask,

799
00:17:10.560 --> 00:17:10.710
hey,

800
00:17:10.800 --> 00:17:13.099
are you definitely gonna vote or are you just kind of thinking about it?

801
00:17:13.170 --> 00:17:13.990
If they say definitely,

802
00:17:14.079 --> 00:17:15.270
then they go through the likely voter screen.

803
00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:16.660
There&#x27;s a bunch of different ways to do this.

804
00:17:17.099 --> 00:17:19.650
But the bottom line is those likely voter screens aren&#x27;t always right.

805
00:17:19.740 --> 00:17:19.930
In fact,

806
00:17:19.980 --> 00:17:22.210
that&#x27;s kind of the reason why some of these things miss.

807
00:17:22.460 --> 00:17:22.690
They,

808
00:17:22.819 --> 00:17:23.520
they think

809
00:17:23.660 --> 00:17:26.400
people with lower education levels aren&#x27;t gonna show up at the polls.

810
00:17:26.819 --> 00:17:28.290
Pollsters got burned by that one,

811
00:17:28.569 --> 00:17:29.680
year after year after year.

812
00:17:29.820 --> 00:17:31.910
You might remember 2016 being one of them,

813
00:17:32.140 --> 00:17:32.260
right?

814
00:17:32.380 --> 00:17:32.650
They thought,

815
00:17:32.740 --> 00:17:33.090
oh gosh,

816
00:17:33.180 --> 00:17:33.300
well,

817
00:17:33.460 --> 00:17:35.210
we&#x27;re gonna screen by education levels.

818
00:17:35.230 --> 00:17:35.680
If you

819
00:17:36.060 --> 00:17:36.810
didn&#x27;t go to college,

820
00:17:36.940 --> 00:17:37.010
well,

821
00:17:37.060 --> 00:17:38.170
you&#x27;re probably less likely to,

822
00:17:38.300 --> 00:17:39.190
to show up to vote.

823
00:17:39.340 --> 00:17:39.490
Well,

824
00:17:39.660 --> 00:17:41.050
the people who didn&#x27;t go to college were like,

825
00:17:41.140 --> 00:17:41.290
uh,

826
00:17:41.380 --> 00:17:41.530
yeah,

827
00:17:41.580 --> 00:17:42.320
I&#x27;m showing up.

828
00:17:42.620 --> 00:17:44.050
They were passionate about that election.

829
00:17:44.480 --> 00:17:47.220
It is a mem it is a a bit of a way

830
00:17:47.400 --> 00:17:47.990
to mention,

831
00:17:48.120 --> 00:17:48.230
uh,

832
00:17:48.320 --> 00:17:48.950
to measure,

833
00:17:49.080 --> 00:17:49.450
um,

834
00:17:49.720 --> 00:17:50.620
enthusiasm.

835
00:17:50.960 --> 00:17:52.470
If you&#x27;re really enthusiastic to vote,

836
00:17:52.560 --> 00:17:53.390
if you&#x27;re telling people that,

837
00:17:53.470 --> 00:17:53.550
yeah,

838
00:17:53.600 --> 00:17:54.270
I&#x27;m definitely voting,

839
00:17:54.320 --> 00:17:55.180
I&#x27;m not gonna miss this for,

840
00:17:55.320 --> 00:17:56.220
for my entire life,

841
00:17:56.960 --> 00:17:58.900
you&#x27;re more likely to get through that likely voter screen.

842
00:17:58.960 --> 00:18:00.270
So it does tell us something,

843
00:18:00.440 --> 00:18:01.740
but that doesn&#x27;t mean they did this right.

844
00:18:02.020 --> 00:18:05.670
That it doesn&#x27;t the jump that you&#x27;ve seen over the past couple of weeks.

845
00:18:05.950 --> 00:18:07.080
Has something to do

846
00:18:07.220 --> 00:18:08.330
with that particular look.

847
00:18:08.420 --> 00:18:08.600
Now,

848
00:18:08.620 --> 00:18:09.340
another thing I wanna look at,

849
00:18:09.380 --> 00:18:10.330
this is from Third Way.

850
00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:11.240
Third Way is a,

851
00:18:11.550 --> 00:18:11.730
uh,

852
00:18:11.900 --> 00:18:13.370
a group that they try to,

853
00:18:13.660 --> 00:18:14.570
they&#x27;re more like moderate,

854
00:18:14.640 --> 00:18:14.770
right?

855
00:18:14.820 --> 00:18:17.000
They try to focus on moderates and how

856
00:18:17.290 --> 00:18:20.330
moderates react in elections and how they are important in elections.

857
00:18:20.400 --> 00:18:22.210
They&#x27;re trying to draw attention to moderates.

858
00:18:22.270 --> 00:18:23.340
So I understand the context here,

859
00:18:23.380 --> 00:18:24.200
but this is a poll,

860
00:18:24.360 --> 00:18:24.450
uh,

861
00:18:24.540 --> 00:18:24.660
and,

862
00:18:24.740 --> 00:18:25.010
and they,

863
00:18:25.100 --> 00:18:25.930
they look at this data,

864
00:18:26.020 --> 00:18:27.370
which is pretty interesting.

865
00:18:27.660 --> 00:18:29.280
What they say is basically if

866
00:18:29.490 --> 00:18:31.330
conservatives have to hold 90%,

867
00:18:31.530 --> 00:18:33.370
let&#x27;s say conservatives get 90% of their voters,

868
00:18:33.620 --> 00:18:34.650
Republicans get 90%.

869
00:18:34.950 --> 00:18:35.060
Um,

870
00:18:35.150 --> 00:18:36.860
this is actually done by conservative and liberal.

871
00:18:37.070 --> 00:18:37.290
If

872
00:18:37.660 --> 00:18:39.380
conservatives go 90% Republican,

873
00:18:39.470 --> 00:18:40.800
liberals go 90% Democrat,

874
00:18:40.990 --> 00:18:42.410
what has to happen with moderates

875
00:18:42.590 --> 00:18:43.420
in each state?

876
00:18:43.710 --> 00:18:45.420
And this is what has to happen.

877
00:18:45.750 --> 00:18:45.820
Uh,

878
00:18:45.950 --> 00:18:47.980
and this is one of the reasons why I&#x27;ve liked the Hinson race,

879
00:18:48.070 --> 00:18:48.140
which,

880
00:18:48.200 --> 00:18:48.460
by the way,

881
00:18:48.590 --> 00:18:49.880
terrible poll for Hinson today.

882
00:18:50.110 --> 00:18:50.180
Uh,

883
00:18:50.470 --> 00:18:50.860
she is down,

884
00:18:50.990 --> 00:18:51.250
I think,

885
00:18:51.270 --> 00:18:51.780
8.

886
00:18:52.070 --> 00:18:52.180
I,

887
00:18:52.270 --> 00:18:52.380
I,

888
00:18:52.470 --> 00:18:52.580
you know,

889
00:18:52.630 --> 00:18:53.460
it was a Marist poll.

890
00:18:53.590 --> 00:18:54.740
Marist polls famously,

891
00:18:54.870 --> 00:18:54.990
uh,

892
00:18:55.150 --> 00:18:55.530
do not,

893
00:18:55.670 --> 00:18:55.900
uh,

894
00:18:56.270 --> 00:18:56.380
do,

895
00:18:56.550 --> 00:18:58.800
do justice to Republican candidates at times.

896
00:18:58.990 --> 00:18:59.220
But,

897
00:18:59.460 --> 00:18:59.680
uh,

898
00:19:00.030 --> 00:19:00.660
the reason why,

899
00:19:00.790 --> 00:19:00.940
uh,

900
00:19:01.150 --> 00:19:01.180
this,

901
00:19:01.350 --> 00:19:02.400
there&#x27;s some optimism here.

902
00:19:02.750 --> 00:19:03.100
Look at these.

903
00:19:03.230 --> 00:19:04.130
Numbers they have to hit.

904
00:19:04.380 --> 00:19:04.730
For example,

905
00:19:04.860 --> 00:19:05.330
in Iowa,

906
00:19:05.380 --> 00:19:07.340
they have to win 75%

907
00:19:07.540 --> 00:19:08.410
of moderate voters.

908
00:19:08.580 --> 00:19:10.330
Right now they&#x27;re winning 63%.

909
00:19:10.540 --> 00:19:11.090
In Alaska,

910
00:19:11.140 --> 00:19:12.410
they have to win 74%.

911
00:19:12.540 --> 00:19:14.650
Right now they&#x27;re winning 66% of the voters.

912
00:19:14.860 --> 00:19:15.520
In Texas,

913
00:19:15.770 --> 00:19:16.540
Tallarico

914
00:19:16.690 --> 00:19:18.970
has to win 73% of moderate voters.

915
00:19:19.060 --> 00:19:20.750
Right now he&#x27;s winning 65%.

916
00:19:21.020 --> 00:19:21.690
In Ohio,

917
00:19:21.980 --> 00:19:23.020
72%

918
00:19:23.180 --> 00:19:23.530
of,

919
00:19:23.630 --> 00:19:23.730
of,

920
00:19:23.870 --> 00:19:24.240
of,

921
00:19:24.390 --> 00:19:24.810
um,

922
00:19:25.030 --> 00:19:25.040
uh,

923
00:19:25.180 --> 00:19:26.050
moderate voters.

924
00:19:26.430 --> 00:19:26.730
Uh,

925
00:19:27.070 --> 00:19:27.420
and they,

926
00:19:27.510 --> 00:19:29.260
and right now they&#x27;re only winning 62%.

927
00:19:29.350 --> 00:19:29.910
This is a race where,

928
00:19:30.110 --> 00:19:30.320
by the way,

929
00:19:30.350 --> 00:19:31.270
I&#x27;m pretty optimistic,

930
00:19:31.400 --> 00:19:31.420
uh,

931
00:19:31.550 --> 00:19:32.650
for Sherrod Brown,

932
00:19:32.920 --> 00:19:34.320
the Democratic candidate there.

933
00:19:34.510 --> 00:19:35.510
But you see there&#x27;s a gap.

934
00:19:35.670 --> 00:19:36.660
Georgia and North Carolina,

935
00:19:36.710 --> 00:19:37.700
they&#x27;re doing what they need to do.

936
00:19:37.790 --> 00:19:38.850
Ossoff and Cooper.

937
00:19:39.070 --> 00:19:39.580
New Hampshire,

938
00:19:39.630 --> 00:19:39.740
we,

939
00:19:39.790 --> 00:19:39.900
we,

940
00:19:39.990 --> 00:19:40.220
this,

941
00:19:40.350 --> 00:19:41.340
the data is not in yet.

942
00:19:41.520 --> 00:19:41.590
Uh,

943
00:19:41.710 --> 00:19:42.380
El Sayed,

944
00:19:42.540 --> 00:19:44.030
you have to get 62% of the moderates,

945
00:19:44.070 --> 00:19:45.150
he&#x27;s only winning 54%.

946
00:19:45.310 --> 00:19:45.700
In Maine,

947
00:19:45.750 --> 00:19:47.300
you have to win 51% of the moderates,

948
00:19:47.470 --> 00:19:48.460
only winning 46%.

949
00:19:48.590 --> 00:19:51.210
This is a pattern that is really consistent throughout this data.

950
00:19:51.390 --> 00:19:51.500
Now,

951
00:19:51.550 --> 00:19:51.900
you might say,

952
00:19:51.970 --> 00:19:52.020
well,

953
00:19:52.150 --> 00:19:52.550
wait a minute.

954
00:19:52.980 --> 00:19:53.930
And they&#x27;re winning all the polls,

955
00:19:54.100 --> 00:19:54.210
why,

956
00:19:54.300 --> 00:19:55.050
how can that be right?

957
00:19:55.180 --> 00:19:57.120
The reason why that&#x27;s right,

958
00:19:57.410 --> 00:19:59.040
why both pieces of information

959
00:19:59.220 --> 00:19:59.920
are right,

960
00:20:00.120 --> 00:20:01.970
is because as of right now,

961
00:20:02.260 --> 00:20:04.430
we&#x27;re seeing people like James Tallarico

962
00:20:04.580 --> 00:20:07.170
pick off more than 10% of Republicans.

963
00:20:08.140 --> 00:20:09.160
That might hold.

964
00:20:09.380 --> 00:20:09.540
I mean,

965
00:20:09.660 --> 00:20:09.730
like,

966
00:20:09.820 --> 00:20:09.970
you know,

967
00:20:10.020 --> 00:20:12.250
a guy like Paxson has his issues and like that,

968
00:20:12.380 --> 00:20:13.420
so this might hold,

969
00:20:13.700 --> 00:20:13.850
um,

970
00:20:13.980 --> 00:20:15.790
but it is a difficult lift

971
00:20:16.060 --> 00:20:17.040
for a,

972
00:20:17.180 --> 00:20:18.330
a left-wing candidate,

973
00:20:18.540 --> 00:20:21.170
some certainly someone like El Sayed or Troy Jackson

974
00:20:21.450 --> 00:20:24.450
to pick off a moderate candidate against Susan Collins,

975
00:20:24.500 --> 00:20:27.810
who is very moderate of of her own rights.

976
00:20:28.640 --> 00:20:28.750
To,

977
00:20:28.840 --> 00:20:29.570
to do that,

978
00:20:29.800 --> 00:20:31.130
as we get closer to the election,

979
00:20:31.380 --> 00:20:34.220
you think a lot of those Republicans are gonna go to the Republican side,

980
00:20:34.360 --> 00:20:36.490
a lot of those Democrats go to the Democratic side,

981
00:20:36.640 --> 00:20:38.220
and you have to win those moderates.

982
00:20:38.520 --> 00:20:38.940
Are,

983
00:20:39.360 --> 00:20:41.230
are Democratic candidates doing enough?

984
00:20:41.360 --> 00:20:41.790
Right now,

985
00:20:41.960 --> 00:20:42.590
for the most part,

986
00:20:42.720 --> 00:20:43.910
the answer to that is no.

987
00:20:44.120 --> 00:20:45.550
So if people do come home,

988
00:20:45.600 --> 00:20:46.310
and that isn&#x27;t if,

989
00:20:46.330 --> 00:20:47.430
it is our thesis statement.

990
00:20:48.310 --> 00:20:49.370
But it is an if.

991
00:20:49.470 --> 00:20:50.930
We don&#x27;t know if that&#x27;s gonna happen.

992
00:20:51.190 --> 00:20:51.480
If

993
00:20:51.630 --> 00:20:52.180
people like,

994
00:20:52.310 --> 00:20:52.700
for example,

995
00:20:52.750 --> 00:20:53.340
in Texas,

996
00:20:53.510 --> 00:20:54.330
in Iowa,

997
00:20:54.670 --> 00:20:54.780
decide,

998
00:20:54.870 --> 00:20:55.020
hey,

999
00:20:55.070 --> 00:20:55.420
wait a minute,

1000
00:20:55.510 --> 00:20:56.150
we&#x27;re Republicans,

1001
00:20:56.190 --> 00:20:57.020
I&#x27;m not gonna vote for the,

1002
00:20:57.110 --> 00:20:58.430
for this left-wing candidate.

1003
00:20:58.850 --> 00:20:59.930
If they decide that,

1004
00:21:01.080 --> 00:21:01.300
Well,

1005
00:21:01.460 --> 00:21:02.590
you&#x27;ve got something here.

1006
00:21:02.720 --> 00:21:02.790
Um,

1007
00:21:02.880 --> 00:21:05.340
let me give you a couple of pieces before we go cause I&#x27;m a little bit long.

1008
00:21:07.180 --> 00:21:07.510
Few,

1009
00:21:07.640 --> 00:21:07.990
um,

1010
00:21:08.320 --> 00:21:09.830
places of weird optimism,

1011
00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:10.550
uh,

1012
00:21:10.760 --> 00:21:11.910
for Republicans.

1013
00:21:12.650 --> 00:21:13.790
Minnesota Senate.

1014
00:21:14.210 --> 00:21:16.820
Peggy Flanagan is the very progressive candidate.

1015
00:21:17.250 --> 00:21:17.790
She is,

1016
00:21:17.930 --> 00:21:18.320
uh,

1017
00:21:18.530 --> 00:21:20.350
she kind of won a battle,

1018
00:21:20.570 --> 00:21:20.680
uh,

1019
00:21:20.770 --> 00:21:23.010
there that we did very well on in the primaries,

1020
00:21:23.270 --> 00:21:25.400
where she was going up against a more,

1021
00:21:25.480 --> 00:21:25.720
um,

1022
00:21:25.810 --> 00:21:27.560
establishment candidate and wound up winning.

1023
00:21:28.140 --> 00:21:29.630
She&#x27;s now the candidate against

1024
00:21:29.900 --> 00:21:32.040
what I believe is a pretty good candidate

1025
00:21:32.260 --> 00:21:33.930
in Republican Minnesota,

1026
00:21:34.140 --> 00:21:34.930
Michelle Tafoya.

1027
00:21:34.980 --> 00:21:36.090
You may know her from ESPN.

1028
00:21:36.190 --> 00:21:37.050
She&#x27;s a sports broadcaster.

1029
00:21:37.140 --> 00:21:37.210
Now,

1030
00:21:37.260 --> 00:21:37.570
we don&#x27;t,

1031
00:21:37.740 --> 00:21:40.370
she&#x27;s not been like tested on a big political stage,

1032
00:21:40.420 --> 00:21:40.850
so we don&#x27;t know,

1033
00:21:40.940 --> 00:21:42.130
but she&#x27;s a very good communicator,

1034
00:21:42.460 --> 00:21:43.290
seems to be a smart,

1035
00:21:43.500 --> 00:21:43.690
uh,

1036
00:21:43.820 --> 00:21:43.970
uh,

1037
00:21:44.020 --> 00:21:44.530
lady.

1038
00:21:44.780 --> 00:21:44.970
Um,

1039
00:21:45.100 --> 00:21:47.360
and here&#x27;s what that market looks like right now.

1040
00:21:47.780 --> 00:21:48.070
Um,

1041
00:21:48.300 --> 00:21:48.360
and,

1042
00:21:48.420 --> 00:21:51.010
and right now you see Peggy Flagan&#x27;s up at 90%,

1043
00:21:51.300 --> 00:21:51.730
OK?

1044
00:21:52.020 --> 00:21:52.320
Um,

1045
00:21:52.700 --> 00:21:53.330
she&#x27;s a heavy,

1046
00:21:53.420 --> 00:21:53.690
heavy,

1047
00:21:53.820 --> 00:21:54.390
heavy favorite,

1048
00:21:54.500 --> 00:21:55.850
and this is because of the Democratic.

1049
00:21:56.360 --> 00:21:56.740
Um,

1050
00:21:57.000 --> 00:21:57.230
uh,

1051
00:21:57.440 --> 00:21:57.670
uh,

1052
00:21:57.920 --> 00:21:58.190
climate.

1053
00:21:58.320 --> 00:21:59.190
This has been pretty clear.

1054
00:21:59.360 --> 00:22:02.380
The polling though is actually pretty close in this race.

1055
00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:02.950
And,

1056
00:22:03.120 --> 00:22:03.270
you know,

1057
00:22:03.360 --> 00:22:05.670
if you believe the Democrats are gonna continue to,

1058
00:22:05.800 --> 00:22:06.750
to get gains here,

1059
00:22:06.800 --> 00:22:10.110
I like the value of Peggy Flanagan at 90.2%.

1060
00:22:10.200 --> 00:22:11.420
If you&#x27;re in that camp,

1061
00:22:11.680 --> 00:22:11.910
um,

1062
00:22:12.240 --> 00:22:13.620
where you believe Peggy is,

1063
00:22:13.800 --> 00:22:13.950
uh,

1064
00:22:14.120 --> 00:22:16.030
going to win that race because of the climate.

1065
00:22:16.300 --> 00:22:18.420
90.2% is a nice price to get in Minnesota,

1066
00:22:18.470 --> 00:22:19.970
where Republicans can&#x27;t seem to win,

1067
00:22:20.110 --> 00:22:20.270
uh,

1068
00:22:20.550 --> 00:22:21.730
even in good years.

1069
00:22:21.990 --> 00:22:22.060
Uh,

1070
00:22:22.190 --> 00:22:23.580
this isn&#x27;t probably gonna be a bad year.

1071
00:22:23.750 --> 00:22:24.900
DeFoya is a strong candidate,

1072
00:22:25.090 --> 00:22:25.220
so,

1073
00:22:25.270 --> 00:22:27.700
but it&#x27;s interesting the polling has been that close.

1074
00:22:27.950 --> 00:22:28.540
Another one here,

1075
00:22:28.680 --> 00:22:29.420
Oregon Governor.

1076
00:22:29.500 --> 00:22:30.140
I&#x27;ve talked to you about this.

1077
00:22:30.190 --> 00:22:32.360
This is one of my favorite races when it comes to,

1078
00:22:32.670 --> 00:22:32.780
uh,

1079
00:22:32.910 --> 00:22:35.050
prediction markets of one of my biggest positions

1080
00:22:35.190 --> 00:22:36.780
is on Tina Kottek there.

1081
00:22:37.070 --> 00:22:37.770
The polling.

1082
00:22:38.590 --> 00:22:41.620
Has been really minimal when you talk about what could be reliable,

1083
00:22:41.830 --> 00:22:42.900
seen as reliable polling.

1084
00:22:42.950 --> 00:22:43.970
Let&#x27;s see the market though.

1085
00:22:44.190 --> 00:22:44.380
Um,

1086
00:22:44.590 --> 00:22:45.700
this is where it shows right now.

1087
00:22:45.840 --> 00:22:47.590
Katina Kotak&#x27;s at 85%.

1088
00:22:47.980 --> 00:22:48.090
Uh,

1089
00:22:48.420 --> 00:22:49.880
Christine Drazen has,

1090
00:22:50.180 --> 00:22:50.330
uh,

1091
00:22:50.650 --> 00:22:50.930
hit,

1092
00:22:51.340 --> 00:22:51.530
has,

1093
00:22:51.740 --> 00:22:52.930
is led in some of these polls.

1094
00:22:52.980 --> 00:22:54.350
Now they&#x27;re polls that she&#x27;s sponsored,

1095
00:22:54.420 --> 00:22:55.650
they&#x27;re internal polls,

1096
00:22:55.980 --> 00:22:58.300
but there&#x27;s every reason to believe this is a little

1097
00:22:58.420 --> 00:23:00.720
way too close to comfort for the Democrats in Oregon.

1098
00:23:00.980 --> 00:23:01.440
She&#x27;s very,

1099
00:23:01.940 --> 00:23:02.500
seemingly very,

1100
00:23:02.530 --> 00:23:02.970
very close.

1101
00:23:03.100 --> 00:23:04.480
She&#x27;s been close before.

1102
00:23:04.980 --> 00:23:07.770
I tend to believe my thesis here is people come home.

1103
00:23:07.940 --> 00:23:08.690
People in Oregon are,

1104
00:23:08.800 --> 00:23:09.390
are gonna go to the.

1105
00:23:09.640 --> 00:23:10.380
Side mostly,

1106
00:23:10.560 --> 00:23:12.910
and at the end of the day are not gonna want to elect a Republican.

1107
00:23:12.960 --> 00:23:14.790
That&#x27;s kind of my thesis on this particular race.

1108
00:23:14.880 --> 00:23:15.180
But

1109
00:23:15.500 --> 00:23:18.750
Republican optimism is somewhat justified in Oregon as well.

1110
00:23:18.880 --> 00:23:20.580
And then in New Hampshire is another case

1111
00:23:20.760 --> 00:23:21.310
where you&#x27;d look at this.

1112
00:23:21.440 --> 00:23:22.670
New Hampshire is a less,

1113
00:23:22.960 --> 00:23:23.150
you know,

1114
00:23:23.230 --> 00:23:24.110
less blue or red,

1115
00:23:24.240 --> 00:23:25.980
so it&#x27;s hard to know with our thesis statement,

1116
00:23:26.160 --> 00:23:26.590
but this is,

1117
00:23:26.610 --> 00:23:26.710
uh,

1118
00:23:26.840 --> 00:23:28.300
the Sununu Pappas race,

1119
00:23:28.320 --> 00:23:28.700
and,

1120
00:23:28.920 --> 00:23:28.950
uh,

1121
00:23:29.110 --> 00:23:31.110
Chris Pappas is at 84%.

1122
00:23:31.430 --> 00:23:32.540
Sannu is at 16%.

1123
00:23:32.630 --> 00:23:35.570
The polling is much closer than that market would show you though.

1124
00:23:35.790 --> 00:23:35.860
Uh,

1125
00:23:36.030 --> 00:23:36.260
Sannu,

1126
00:23:36.550 --> 00:23:36.700
uh,

1127
00:23:36.870 --> 00:23:38.060
had some good polls there,

1128
00:23:38.310 --> 00:23:38.330
uh,

1129
00:23:38.510 --> 00:23:40.470
that looks like it&#x27;s close to very well known in the state,

1130
00:23:40.510 --> 00:23:41.930
and that&#x27;s a good part of the reason there.

1131
00:23:42.030 --> 00:23:42.220
Again,

1132
00:23:42.260 --> 00:23:44.180
a strong candidate from Republicans.

1133
00:23:44.750 --> 00:23:47.190
I tend to still think Pappas will probably win here,

1134
00:23:47.310 --> 00:23:49.910
but there are reasons for optimism for Republicans there.

1135
00:23:50.080 --> 00:23:50.260
So,

1136
00:23:50.470 --> 00:23:53.370
basically what I&#x27;m saying here is Republicans absolutely have a chance

1137
00:23:53.510 --> 00:23:54.760
to win the Senate still.

1138
00:23:55.030 --> 00:23:55.140
Uh,

1139
00:23:55.350 --> 00:23:57.940
there are many weird opportunities for pickups

1140
00:23:57.940 --> 00:23:59.870
like that that they might actually get.

1141
00:24:00.070 --> 00:24:01.410
And if this polling,

1142
00:24:01.630 --> 00:24:01.860
I mean,

1143
00:24:02.030 --> 00:24:02.890
the downside of this is,

1144
00:24:02.910 --> 00:24:05.260
I will tell you that that that what Patrick has said about the

1145
00:24:05.260 --> 00:24:09.140
polling kind of coming back towards Republicans has not happened in the timeline.

1146
00:24:09.460 --> 00:24:09.790
That we,

1147
00:24:09.930 --> 00:24:10.040
uh,

1148
00:24:10.190 --> 00:24:11.760
saw it necessarily in that last race.

1149
00:24:11.810 --> 00:24:12.270
And so

1150
00:24:12.450 --> 00:24:13.120
now with more data,

1151
00:24:13.180 --> 00:24:14.250
a month more data,

1152
00:24:14.650 --> 00:24:16.380
Democrats have some reason for optimism there.

1153
00:24:16.610 --> 00:24:16.990
But

1154
00:24:17.370 --> 00:24:18.730
Republicans have a path here.

1155
00:24:18.770 --> 00:24:19.450
It&#x27;s not

1156
00:24:19.570 --> 00:24:21.440
like they have to get destroyed.

1157
00:24:21.690 --> 00:24:22.060
If,

1158
00:24:22.250 --> 00:24:23.840
if they can get their base activated,

1159
00:24:24.040 --> 00:24:26.270
there&#x27;s still a case for optimism for the GOP for sure.

1160
00:24:26.450 --> 00:24:26.580
OK,

1161
00:24:26.690 --> 00:24:27.240
we&#x27;re gonna take a break,

1162
00:24:27.370 --> 00:24:28.700
come back on the other side,

1163
00:24:28.930 --> 00:24:29.080
uh,

1164
00:24:29.210 --> 00:24:29.760
with more.

1165
00:24:29.900 --> 00:24:31.640
Make sure to join us at predictableshow.com.

1166
00:24:31.730 --> 00:24:31.970
By the way,

1167
00:24:32.090 --> 00:24:32.200
if you,

1168
00:24:32.330 --> 00:24:33.160
if you heard all those pictures,

1169
00:24:33.250 --> 00:24:34.470
like I can&#x27;t keep track of all those picks.

1170
00:24:34.490 --> 00:24:36.120
He just talked about like 10 different races.

1171
00:24:36.450 --> 00:24:37.230
I&#x27;ve got a position in this.

1172
00:24:37.250 --> 00:24:38.040
I&#x27;ve got a position in that.

1173
00:24:38.120 --> 00:24:38.680
Shout out to.

1174
00:24:39.240 --> 00:24:40.220
You don&#x27;t have to listen to me.

1175
00:24:40.320 --> 00:24:41.670
You just go to predictableShow.com.

1176
00:24:41.840 --> 00:24:43.510
Every single one of my positions in prediction

1177
00:24:43.510 --> 00:24:46.820
markets from politics to sports to elections to

1178
00:24:47.120 --> 00:24:47.590
uh culture,

1179
00:24:47.920 --> 00:24:48.270
everything

1180
00:24:48.440 --> 00:24:51.790
is listed for premium subscribers at predictableShow.com.

1181
00:24:52.120 --> 00:24:52.500
So,

1182
00:24:52.590 --> 00:24:54.130
you can look at it in your own time.

1183
00:24:54.280 --> 00:24:55.030
It&#x27;s up there now.

1184
00:24:55.160 --> 00:24:55.670
Back in a second.

1185
00:25:13.230 --> 00:25:15.890
I want to bring in Jesse Rosen and Tanner Lux to the program.

1186
00:25:15.990 --> 00:25:18.420
They&#x27;re from the Predict 2026 conference.

1187
00:25:18.510 --> 00:25:19.820
This is happening in New York City,

1188
00:25:19.870 --> 00:25:21.710
December 7th to the 9th.

1189
00:25:21.990 --> 00:25:25.020
You can learn all about it at predict2026.org.

1190
00:25:25.270 --> 00:25:25.500
Guys,

1191
00:25:25.670 --> 00:25:26.500
thanks so much for coming on the program.

1192
00:25:26.590 --> 00:25:27.050
Appreciate it.

1193
00:25:27.800 --> 00:25:27.950
Yeah,

1194
00:25:28.080 --> 00:25:28.790
thank you for having us.

1195
00:25:28.920 --> 00:25:29.860
Excited to be here.

1196
00:25:30.040 --> 00:25:30.660
Yeah,

1197
00:25:31.120 --> 00:25:31.820
great to see you guys.

1198
00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:32.070
Uh,

1199
00:25:32.280 --> 00:25:33.430
tell me quick before we get started,

1200
00:25:33.520 --> 00:25:35.110
tell me a little bit about Predict 2026.

1201
00:25:35.190 --> 00:25:35.830
It&#x27;s in New York.

1202
00:25:35.920 --> 00:25:36.270
I know it&#x27;s,

1203
00:25:36.360 --> 00:25:37.870
it&#x27;s in the New York Times

1204
00:25:38.180 --> 00:25:38.590
building.

1205
00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:38.790
Uh,

1206
00:25:38.880 --> 00:25:38.950
uh,

1207
00:25:39.120 --> 00:25:42.590
we did an event there a million years ago and that it&#x27;s like an incredible room.

1208
00:25:42.680 --> 00:25:42.830
I mean,

1209
00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:44.610
it is legitimately impressive.

1210
00:25:44.880 --> 00:25:46.310
Tell me about the conference and what&#x27;s going on there.

1211
00:25:47.830 --> 00:25:48.020
Yeah,

1212
00:25:48.150 --> 00:25:48.530
definitely,

1213
00:25:48.590 --> 00:25:49.450
and I&#x27;m sure

1214
00:25:49.560 --> 00:25:52.050
Jesse will have stuff to add um on top of what I say,

1215
00:25:52.070 --> 00:25:52.530
but

1216
00:25:52.950 --> 00:25:55.380
we are both prediction market traders.

1217
00:25:55.470 --> 00:25:55.930
I

1218
00:25:56.110 --> 00:25:57.980
came into prediction market trading from,

1219
00:25:58.110 --> 00:25:58.460
uh,

1220
00:25:58.630 --> 00:25:58.780
you know,

1221
00:25:58.870 --> 00:26:01.090
working on political campaigns and organizing political

1222
00:26:01.270 --> 00:26:01.970
events

1223
00:26:02.270 --> 00:26:04.480
to eventually trading on politics and then.

1224
00:26:05.060 --> 00:26:05.810
During that time,

1225
00:26:05.860 --> 00:26:06.210
I,

1226
00:26:06.340 --> 00:26:08.360
as I got into trading on politics,

1227
00:26:08.460 --> 00:26:09.290
making forecasts,

1228
00:26:09.310 --> 00:26:10.250
and I got better at that,

1229
00:26:10.340 --> 00:26:11.000
I really,

1230
00:26:11.180 --> 00:26:11.330
you know,

1231
00:26:11.420 --> 00:26:12.990
trading can be a very lonely activity,

1232
00:26:13.060 --> 00:26:15.290
and we wanted to do something for the community,

1233
00:26:15.660 --> 00:26:16.740
by the community,

1234
00:26:17.100 --> 00:26:18.040
and that&#x27;s

1235
00:26:18.140 --> 00:26:18.880
really what I&#x27;m,

1236
00:26:18.900 --> 00:26:19.090
uh,

1237
00:26:19.340 --> 00:26:20.210
excited to say that we&#x27;ve,

1238
00:26:20.230 --> 00:26:20.450
uh,

1239
00:26:20.510 --> 00:26:21.210
we&#x27;ve put together.

1240
00:26:21.260 --> 00:26:22.490
We&#x27;ve got a great group of speakers,

1241
00:26:22.660 --> 00:26:23.450
great group of sponsors,

1242
00:26:23.500 --> 00:26:24.210
a lot of great,

1243
00:26:24.540 --> 00:26:24.730
you know,

1244
00:26:24.820 --> 00:26:25.050
all the,

1245
00:26:25.100 --> 00:26:26.880
all the major players in the space coming in to

1246
00:26:26.880 --> 00:26:28.800
talk about these markets we all know and love.

1247
00:26:30.260 --> 00:26:30.410
Yeah,

1248
00:26:30.540 --> 00:26:30.730
I mean,

1249
00:26:30.820 --> 00:26:31.050
I don&#x27;t,

1250
00:26:31.140 --> 00:26:32.840
I don&#x27;t have too much to add on top of that.

1251
00:26:32.860 --> 00:26:33.050
Um,

1252
00:26:33.180 --> 00:26:33.640
I&#x27;m a

1253
00:26:33.780 --> 00:26:35.290
liquidity provider in the space.

1254
00:26:35.380 --> 00:26:36.290
I do a lot of,

1255
00:26:36.330 --> 00:26:36.540
um,

1256
00:26:36.620 --> 00:26:38.040
liquidity provision on

1257
00:26:38.780 --> 00:26:40.450
politics markets as well as,

1258
00:26:40.540 --> 00:26:40.890
you know,

1259
00:26:41.260 --> 00:26:42.630
culture companies,

1260
00:26:42.820 --> 00:26:43.090
um,

1261
00:26:43.260 --> 00:26:44.660
lots of different categories,

1262
00:26:44.980 --> 00:26:45.600
and

1263
00:26:45.700 --> 00:26:47.640
I wanted there to be this space for,

1264
00:26:47.920 --> 00:26:48.170
you know,

1265
00:26:48.470 --> 00:26:50.360
traders to be

1266
00:26:51.100 --> 00:26:52.120
meeting each other,

1267
00:26:52.220 --> 00:26:52.570
you know,

1268
00:26:52.780 --> 00:26:53.280
like

1269
00:26:54.030 --> 00:26:55.570
collaborating in some way or another,

1270
00:26:55.660 --> 00:26:56.440
but also

1271
00:26:56.740 --> 00:26:59.550
for builders and researchers and

1272
00:26:59.860 --> 00:27:02.380
The regulators in the space to all be

1273
00:27:02.550 --> 00:27:04.910
really connecting and figuring out how

1274
00:27:04.910 --> 00:27:07.550
we&#x27;re moving this full industry forward because

1275
00:27:07.550 --> 00:27:10.350
you know as you know things are moving so fast right now.

1276
00:27:10.740 --> 00:27:11.090
Um,

1277
00:27:11.260 --> 00:27:12.290
but it&#x27;s hard to keep up,

1278
00:27:12.340 --> 00:27:13.960
and I think we all just need to like

1279
00:27:15.100 --> 00:27:16.250
figure out together where,

1280
00:27:16.420 --> 00:27:17.130
where we&#x27;re going.

1281
00:27:17.420 --> 00:27:17.530
Yeah,

1282
00:27:17.900 --> 00:27:18.130
it&#x27;s,

1283
00:27:18.260 --> 00:27:19.000
it&#x27;s an amazing time,

1284
00:27:19.060 --> 00:27:19.410
honestly,

1285
00:27:19.700 --> 00:27:20.290
so much growing,

1286
00:27:20.320 --> 00:27:20.330
uh,

1287
00:27:20.460 --> 00:27:20.740
so fast.

1288
00:27:20.820 --> 00:27:21.850
I&#x27;m definitely gonna be up at this thing.

1289
00:27:21.910 --> 00:27:22.010
I,

1290
00:27:22.100 --> 00:27:23.050
I&#x27;m really excited to be there.

1291
00:27:23.100 --> 00:27:24.140
It&#x27;s gonna be really cool.

1292
00:27:24.420 --> 00:27:24.670
Um,

1293
00:27:25.060 --> 00:27:25.250
let&#x27;s,

1294
00:27:25.360 --> 00:27:26.900
let&#x27;s talk a little bit about these markets though.

1295
00:27:27.010 --> 00:27:27.020
Uh,

1296
00:27:27.220 --> 00:27:27.250
we,

1297
00:27:27.420 --> 00:27:27.570
you know,

1298
00:27:27.660 --> 00:27:28.540
we do,

1299
00:27:28.980 --> 00:27:29.890
there&#x27;s all sorts of different markets,

1300
00:27:29.910 --> 00:27:30.450
as we all know,

1301
00:27:30.500 --> 00:27:31.530
there&#x27;s a market on everything.

1302
00:27:31.750 --> 00:27:31.970
Um,

1303
00:27:32.180 --> 00:27:32.930
we focus,

1304
00:27:33.180 --> 00:27:36.640
I would say most of our attention on politics and elections

1305
00:27:36.900 --> 00:27:38.010
cause that&#x27;s just where I&#x27;ve always,

1306
00:27:38.140 --> 00:27:39.410
I&#x27;ve always been interested.

1307
00:27:39.760 --> 00:27:40.070
Um,

1308
00:27:40.360 --> 00:27:40.550
you know,

1309
00:27:40.650 --> 00:27:40.750
I,

1310
00:27:40.800 --> 00:27:40.910
I,

1311
00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:41.030
I,

1312
00:27:41.240 --> 00:27:41.700
Tanner,

1313
00:27:41.960 --> 00:27:43.310
you mentioned working in politics.

1314
00:27:44.240 --> 00:27:44.620
Does that,

1315
00:27:44.800 --> 00:27:44.970
you know,

1316
00:27:45.040 --> 00:27:45.710
does that help you?

1317
00:27:45.760 --> 00:27:45.910
I mean,

1318
00:27:46.000 --> 00:27:48.310
because you feel like there&#x27;s a behind the scenes part of

1319
00:27:48.310 --> 00:27:50.210
working in politics that gives you a little bit of,

1320
00:27:50.320 --> 00:27:51.200
of knowledge

1321
00:27:51.360 --> 00:27:51.910
of just being

1322
00:27:52.200 --> 00:27:53.870
able to understand kind of like maybe,

1323
00:27:53.960 --> 00:27:54.310
uh,

1324
00:27:54.630 --> 00:27:57.250
disassemble the hype a little bit around a particular candidate.

1325
00:27:58.290 --> 00:27:58.520
Yeah,

1326
00:27:58.650 --> 00:27:58.840
I,

1327
00:27:58.930 --> 00:27:59.240
um,

1328
00:27:59.370 --> 00:28:00.040
I think it&#x27;s,

1329
00:28:00.090 --> 00:28:03.120
it&#x27;s very useful to have spent a lot of time both at the beginning

1330
00:28:03.120 --> 00:28:05.710
of my career in politics going door to door and talking to people.

1331
00:28:05.730 --> 00:28:06.550
You learn that

1332
00:28:06.810 --> 00:28:08.910
the candidates that people are really excited about

1333
00:28:08.910 --> 00:28:10.700
on the internet are not always the,

1334
00:28:10.890 --> 00:28:11.040
you know,

1335
00:28:11.170 --> 00:28:11.870
candidates that,

1336
00:28:11.970 --> 00:28:12.280
you know,

1337
00:28:12.490 --> 00:28:12.680
uh,

1338
00:28:12.850 --> 00:28:17.000
porch and patio voters in Michigan or Arizona are excited about,

1339
00:28:17.130 --> 00:28:17.580
so.

1340
00:28:18.120 --> 00:28:21.760
I think it gives you a grounded perspective for like my personal trading.

1341
00:28:21.800 --> 00:28:22.460
I think

1342
00:28:22.720 --> 00:28:24.020
it made me worse

1343
00:28:24.150 --> 00:28:24.780
at first,

1344
00:28:24.920 --> 00:28:25.150
you know,

1345
00:28:25.280 --> 00:28:27.190
coming into forecasting.

1346
00:28:27.480 --> 00:28:29.530
I carried a lot of personal

1347
00:28:29.760 --> 00:28:32.150
biases and personal thoughts about the way the

1348
00:28:32.150 --> 00:28:34.270
world works that weren&#x27;t always in tune with.

1349
00:28:34.740 --> 00:28:35.010
You know,

1350
00:28:35.220 --> 00:28:35.940
exactly,

1351
00:28:36.180 --> 00:28:36.520
you know,

1352
00:28:36.660 --> 00:28:36.960
the

1353
00:28:37.100 --> 00:28:38.370
probabilities and forecasts,

1354
00:28:38.460 --> 00:28:38.960
but then

1355
00:28:39.100 --> 00:28:40.950
over time I think it&#x27;s become a real

1356
00:28:41.340 --> 00:28:44.960
sustainable edge in my trading once I was able to sort of learn to think and,

1357
00:28:45.030 --> 00:28:45.250
you know,

1358
00:28:45.420 --> 00:28:45.920
more

1359
00:28:46.100 --> 00:28:47.690
Bayjian sort of terms,

1360
00:28:47.750 --> 00:28:47.970
it,

1361
00:28:48.100 --> 00:28:49.920
it really has been quite a resource.

1362
00:28:50.580 --> 00:28:50.650
Yeah,

1363
00:28:50.700 --> 00:28:52.250
it&#x27;s interesting you say that we have a

1364
00:28:52.250 --> 00:28:54.290
predictable constitution where we try to like,

1365
00:28:54.420 --> 00:28:54.730
you know,

1366
00:28:55.180 --> 00:28:58.940
I try to remember all the dumb mistakes I&#x27;ve made over the years as a trading contract

1367
00:28:59.140 --> 00:29:00.420
and made it into a constitution.

1368
00:29:00.500 --> 00:29:02.650
Our 12th Amendment is don&#x27;t invest with your heart.

1369
00:29:03.080 --> 00:29:03.430
And that&#x27;s,

1370
00:29:03.480 --> 00:29:06.900
I think one of the hardest things for people to get past because

1371
00:29:07.110 --> 00:29:08.630
you want something so badly,

1372
00:29:08.650 --> 00:29:10.790
you want a particular candidate to win,

1373
00:29:11.120 --> 00:29:12.520
and then you look at those markets and you&#x27;re like,

1374
00:29:12.560 --> 00:29:12.670
well,

1375
00:29:12.760 --> 00:29:13.360
wait a minute,

1376
00:29:13.760 --> 00:29:15.680
I think actually the other guy might win,

1377
00:29:16.160 --> 00:29:16.390
you know,

1378
00:29:16.520 --> 00:29:19.710
do I have the strength internally to actually go for that other candidate?

1379
00:29:19.730 --> 00:29:19.900
I,

1380
00:29:20.040 --> 00:29:21.740
it&#x27;s more difficult than I think people would think.

1381
00:29:22.790 --> 00:29:23.020
Yeah,

1382
00:29:23.190 --> 00:29:23.300
yeah,

1383
00:29:23.430 --> 00:29:23.500
no,

1384
00:29:23.550 --> 00:29:25.420
there&#x27;s a lot of challenges in it,

1385
00:29:25.510 --> 00:29:26.950
I think especially,

1386
00:29:27.510 --> 00:29:27.700
you know,

1387
00:29:28.070 --> 00:29:30.860
everyone&#x27;s worse at forecasting on farther out time horizons,

1388
00:29:30.950 --> 00:29:32.740
just if you look at any of the data on,

1389
00:29:32.830 --> 00:29:35.330
on Briar scores and accuracy,

1390
00:29:35.630 --> 00:29:36.370
and I think

1391
00:29:36.630 --> 00:29:37.790
as people get less accurate,

1392
00:29:37.830 --> 00:29:39.900
as you have to start stacking assumptions,

1393
00:29:39.950 --> 00:29:41.250
you&#x27;re relying on sort of

1394
00:29:41.900 --> 00:29:42.810
fundamental

1395
00:29:42.950 --> 00:29:44.010
world beliefs that

1396
00:29:44.370 --> 00:29:45.660
might not really be relevant,

1397
00:29:45.710 --> 00:29:47.260
you can come to these very extreme.

1398
00:29:47.850 --> 00:29:48.180
Uh,

1399
00:29:48.450 --> 00:29:50.270
conclusions in the long run are not

1400
00:29:50.520 --> 00:29:51.560
even so much extreme,

1401
00:29:51.650 --> 00:29:52.190
but just

1402
00:29:52.410 --> 00:29:52.720
something,

1403
00:29:52.810 --> 00:29:52.960
yeah,

1404
00:29:53.050 --> 00:29:53.360
that you,

1405
00:29:53.450 --> 00:29:54.230
you don&#x27;t realize is,

1406
00:29:54.330 --> 00:29:55.360
is much closer to your,

1407
00:29:55.490 --> 00:29:56.830
to your heart than your mind.

1408
00:29:57.660 --> 00:29:57.920
Jesse,

1409
00:29:58.010 --> 00:29:58.280
what was,

1410
00:29:58.490 --> 00:30:00.610
what are the state of political markets right now?

1411
00:30:00.690 --> 00:30:01.000
Cause I think,

1412
00:30:01.050 --> 00:30:01.400
you know,

1413
00:30:01.770 --> 00:30:01.890
look,

1414
00:30:01.970 --> 00:30:02.620
I like sports,

1415
00:30:02.730 --> 00:30:03.520
I like going on,

1416
00:30:03.610 --> 00:30:06.240
I like predicting markets for using them for sports.

1417
00:30:06.330 --> 00:30:07.700
Like I have no problem with it at all.

1418
00:30:07.970 --> 00:30:08.580
But also like,

1419
00:30:08.610 --> 00:30:09.520
it gets all the attention,

1420
00:30:09.610 --> 00:30:10.040
it gets all,

1421
00:30:10.250 --> 00:30:10.360
you know,

1422
00:30:10.490 --> 00:30:11.350
gets all the anger,

1423
00:30:11.490 --> 00:30:11.590
uh,

1424
00:30:11.730 --> 00:30:12.680
gets all the hype.

1425
00:30:12.950 --> 00:30:13.140
Um,

1426
00:30:13.310 --> 00:30:13.460
you know,

1427
00:30:13.560 --> 00:30:16.070
predict prediction markets for politics is really how I came into this,

1428
00:30:16.190 --> 00:30:16.310
you know,

1429
00:30:16.390 --> 00:30:18.860
back to predicted back in the day and in,

1430
00:30:18.990 --> 00:30:19.710
in that world.

1431
00:30:20.110 --> 00:30:20.500
What is,

1432
00:30:20.670 --> 00:30:20.780
uh,

1433
00:30:21.110 --> 00:30:21.340
what is,

1434
00:30:21.630 --> 00:30:22.220
what are the state of,

1435
00:30:22.350 --> 00:30:23.140
of these markets today,

1436
00:30:23.190 --> 00:30:24.060
and I know they&#x27;re growing,

1437
00:30:24.150 --> 00:30:25.220
but are they growing and,

1438
00:30:25.310 --> 00:30:25.500
you know,

1439
00:30:25.750 --> 00:30:28.540
and being as big a part of the pie as some people expect?

1440
00:30:29.770 --> 00:30:30.310
I think that,

1441
00:30:30.330 --> 00:30:30.550
you know,

1442
00:30:30.570 --> 00:30:33.440
the volumes are definitely growing on politics markets.

1443
00:30:33.570 --> 00:30:34.600
They&#x27;re getting bigger,

1444
00:30:34.930 --> 00:30:35.460
um.

1445
00:30:36.060 --> 00:30:37.520
I think that they&#x27;re still,

1446
00:30:38.020 --> 00:30:39.600
they&#x27;re still at a point where

1447
00:30:39.740 --> 00:30:41.120
it&#x27;s harder for

1448
00:30:41.510 --> 00:30:42.650
big businesses,

1449
00:30:42.860 --> 00:30:46.490
big trading firms to get as big of a slice of them as they want,

1450
00:30:46.580 --> 00:30:46.770
you know,

1451
00:30:46.860 --> 00:30:48.650
they want more liquidity in these markets,

1452
00:30:48.670 --> 00:30:49.850
and that&#x27;s just something that&#x27;s

1453
00:30:50.100 --> 00:30:51.410
building up over time.

1454
00:30:51.460 --> 00:30:52.560
I think that the,

1455
00:30:52.660 --> 00:30:54.910
the politics trajectory has definitely been

1456
00:30:55.260 --> 00:30:57.290
increased significantly by the sports volume,

1457
00:30:57.340 --> 00:30:57.530
you know,

1458
00:30:57.650 --> 00:30:58.460
kind of like the,

1459
00:30:58.550 --> 00:31:00.040
the interest trickling into them,

1460
00:31:00.470 --> 00:31:01.810
but it&#x27;s not.

1461
00:31:03.410 --> 00:31:03.950
It,

1462
00:31:04.330 --> 00:31:04.530
it,

1463
00:31:04.650 --> 00:31:06.800
it hasn&#x27;t taken off in the same rocket ship.

1464
00:31:06.890 --> 00:31:07.230
So

1465
00:31:07.340 --> 00:31:08.550
we&#x27;re seeing that interest,

1466
00:31:08.730 --> 00:31:09.000
um,

1467
00:31:09.270 --> 00:31:11.400
increase over time and definitely like the midterms are going

1468
00:31:11.400 --> 00:31:13.670
to have a huge effect and I think we&#x27;re going to

1469
00:31:14.030 --> 00:31:15.310
just kind of have to

1470
00:31:15.890 --> 00:31:16.550
see

1471
00:31:16.890 --> 00:31:20.070
how much of the sports interest ends up moving into,

1472
00:31:20.370 --> 00:31:20.480
ah,

1473
00:31:20.570 --> 00:31:21.920
midterms as the date gets closer.

1474
00:31:22.010 --> 00:31:22.370
As you know,

1475
00:31:22.410 --> 00:31:24.360
people really like these short term markets,

1476
00:31:24.410 --> 00:31:26.210
they like to turn over their money quickly,

1477
00:31:26.610 --> 00:31:27.190
so.

1478
00:31:27.870 --> 00:31:28.850
I think that

1479
00:31:29.070 --> 00:31:30.040
as we get closer,

1480
00:31:30.150 --> 00:31:31.700
we might start to see these people who

1481
00:31:31.700 --> 00:31:34.020
are really interested in the short-term markets,

1482
00:31:34.550 --> 00:31:35.370
moving from,

1483
00:31:35.670 --> 00:31:36.060
you know,

1484
00:31:36.450 --> 00:31:38.190
just being into sports into

1485
00:31:38.390 --> 00:31:40.590
now considering more of the politics markets.

1486
00:31:40.750 --> 00:31:40.820
Yeah,

1487
00:31:40.910 --> 00:31:41.840
that&#x27;s one of the arguments I,

1488
00:31:41.870 --> 00:31:42.010
I,

1489
00:31:42.030 --> 00:31:43.540
I have with people sometimes when they talk about like,

1490
00:31:43.630 --> 00:31:44.000
oh well,

1491
00:31:44.070 --> 00:31:44.260
you know,

1492
00:31:44.350 --> 00:31:45.100
70% of the,

1493
00:31:45.190 --> 00:31:45.380
you know,

1494
00:31:45.470 --> 00:31:46.380
the volume is sports.

1495
00:31:46.470 --> 00:31:46.740
Well,

1496
00:31:47.150 --> 00:31:49.040
part of the reason For that is there&#x27;s so many events,

1497
00:31:49.170 --> 00:31:49.320
right?

1498
00:31:49.370 --> 00:31:53.030
Like these things are happening constantly and inside of every one of those events,

1499
00:31:53.050 --> 00:31:53.480
there&#x27;s another,

1500
00:31:53.570 --> 00:31:53.720
you know,

1501
00:31:53.880 --> 00:31:54.720
several layers of,

1502
00:31:54.850 --> 00:31:55.000
you know,

1503
00:31:55.130 --> 00:31:56.870
player props and all these other different things

1504
00:31:57.050 --> 00:31:57.780
that you can look at.

1505
00:31:57.930 --> 00:31:58.040
Well,

1506
00:31:58.110 --> 00:31:58.340
of course,

1507
00:31:58.370 --> 00:31:59.240
people are on their train.

1508
00:31:59.290 --> 00:31:59.400
There&#x27;s,

1509
00:31:59.490 --> 00:32:01.500
there&#x27;s only one election every couple of years,

1510
00:32:01.730 --> 00:32:01.920
uh,

1511
00:32:02.250 --> 00:32:03.070
for the most part.

1512
00:32:03.310 --> 00:32:03.400
Um,

1513
00:32:03.530 --> 00:32:05.110
so that I think that is a difference.

1514
00:32:05.330 --> 00:32:07.320
We are still seeing that people are,

1515
00:32:07.370 --> 00:32:07.840
I think,

1516
00:32:08.170 --> 00:32:08.280
you know,

1517
00:32:08.490 --> 00:32:08.800
it&#x27;s funny,

1518
00:32:08.850 --> 00:32:10.320
I talk to people all the time about the,

1519
00:32:10.570 --> 00:32:10.680
the,

1520
00:32:10.810 --> 00:32:12.350
the main market they always bring up to me

1521
00:32:12.530 --> 00:32:14.420
is who&#x27;s gonna win in 2028.

1522
00:32:14.910 --> 00:32:15.290
And

1523
00:32:15.390 --> 00:32:15.500
you know,

1524
00:32:15.590 --> 00:32:17.080
like that is a really fun,

1525
00:32:17.460 --> 00:32:18.200
interesting market.

1526
00:32:18.510 --> 00:32:21.650
But when you stop and think about how long you have to lock your money up,

1527
00:32:21.930 --> 00:32:22.100
uh,

1528
00:32:22.590 --> 00:32:23.810
to trade a market like that,

1529
00:32:23.910 --> 00:32:24.220
it really,

1530
00:32:24.270 --> 00:32:25.520
you really wonder whether

1531
00:32:25.980 --> 00:32:26.220
it&#x27;s,

1532
00:32:26.270 --> 00:32:27.180
it&#x27;s the right target.

1533
00:32:27.270 --> 00:32:27.420
I mean,

1534
00:32:27.590 --> 00:32:27.620
am I,

1535
00:32:27.710 --> 00:32:28.460
am I thinking about that right,

1536
00:32:28.510 --> 00:32:28.820
Tanner?

1537
00:32:30.120 --> 00:32:30.270
Yeah,

1538
00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:30.670
I would,

1539
00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:31.690
I would say you are,

1540
00:32:31.720 --> 00:32:32.170
even,

1541
00:32:32.190 --> 00:32:32.860
um,

1542
00:32:33.440 --> 00:32:34.100
I,

1543
00:32:34.160 --> 00:32:35.030
I think there,

1544
00:32:35.120 --> 00:32:37.040
if you&#x27;re looking for a quick

1545
00:32:37.440 --> 00:32:37.870
turnaround,

1546
00:32:37.960 --> 00:32:39.760
there were some good trades at least I was

1547
00:32:39.760 --> 00:32:42.110
seeing earlier in some of these primary markets,

1548
00:32:42.320 --> 00:32:43.380
particularly with,

1549
00:32:43.760 --> 00:32:43.950
you know,

1550
00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:46.190
a few Democrats I think were priced a little bit lower,

1551
00:32:46.320 --> 00:32:47.540
but you&#x27;re still counting on.

1552
00:32:48.090 --> 00:32:48.280
You know,

1553
00:32:48.410 --> 00:32:51.720
not just being right that their true odds are

1554
00:32:51.720 --> 00:32:54.230
higher than you believe the market is pricing them,

1555
00:32:54.450 --> 00:32:57.110
but also that the market will realize that it&#x27;s incorrect in a,

1556
00:32:57.130 --> 00:32:58.970
in a reasonable enough time for you to exit

1557
00:32:59.130 --> 00:33:01.470
that position with any sort of profit unless you wanted to

1558
00:33:01.760 --> 00:33:03.390
hold to a resolution which You know,

1559
00:33:03.720 --> 00:33:04.670
creates a lot of extra risk,

1560
00:33:04.840 --> 00:33:05.820
especially if you believe

1561
00:33:06.160 --> 00:33:09.140
a 2 cent candidate is more of a 4 cent candidate for,

1562
00:33:09.320 --> 00:33:09.510
you know,

1563
00:33:09.640 --> 00:33:11.000
winning the overall election.

1564
00:33:11.130 --> 00:33:11.270
Yeah,

1565
00:33:11.360 --> 00:33:13.430
the primary schedule is great for this stuff because you can,

1566
00:33:13.520 --> 00:33:14.070
you can go in,

1567
00:33:14.120 --> 00:33:15.340
you have a weekly event,

1568
00:33:15.480 --> 00:33:17.080
you can go in with all your stuff there,

1569
00:33:17.160 --> 00:33:17.950
you can roll it over.

1570
00:33:18.100 --> 00:33:19.710
The next week and build on it from there to there.

1571
00:33:19.730 --> 00:33:19.920
I mean,

1572
00:33:19.970 --> 00:33:20.910
it&#x27;s a really fun,

1573
00:33:21.090 --> 00:33:21.300
uh,

1574
00:33:21.490 --> 00:33:22.360
time of year and we had a great,

1575
00:33:22.530 --> 00:33:23.470
great time doing it.

1576
00:33:23.770 --> 00:33:23.880
Um,

1577
00:33:24.010 --> 00:33:24.580
I need to notice,

1578
00:33:24.650 --> 00:33:24.880
Jesse,

1579
00:33:24.970 --> 00:33:25.080
you know,

1580
00:33:25.170 --> 00:33:27.030
you look at the liquidity in some of these markets and,

1581
00:33:27.050 --> 00:33:27.240
you know,

1582
00:33:27.570 --> 00:33:27.760
talking,

1583
00:33:27.840 --> 00:33:27.960
you know,

1584
00:33:28.010 --> 00:33:28.470
we&#x27;re

1585
00:33:28.770 --> 00:33:29.240
generally speaking,

1586
00:33:29.290 --> 00:33:29.960
my audience is,

1587
00:33:30.010 --> 00:33:30.270
is,

1588
00:33:30.450 --> 00:33:30.720
you know,

1589
00:33:31.050 --> 00:33:34.680
less like expert traders and more like people who are love politics,

1590
00:33:34.780 --> 00:33:34.890
right?

1591
00:33:34.960 --> 00:33:35.280
They&#x27;re in it,

1592
00:33:35.330 --> 00:33:36.700
they&#x27;re thinking about it all the time.

1593
00:33:37.140 --> 00:33:37.450
And like,

1594
00:33:37.500 --> 00:33:37.650
you know,

1595
00:33:37.740 --> 00:33:40.210
so liquidity is not something they think about on an everyday basis,

1596
00:33:40.300 --> 00:33:41.480
but sometimes they&#x27;ll have a take,

1597
00:33:41.660 --> 00:33:43.260
they&#x27;ll want to go into a market and there&#x27;s just

1598
00:33:43.260 --> 00:33:45.770
no shares really there to buy in an interesting price.

1599
00:33:45.940 --> 00:33:46.090
How,

1600
00:33:46.220 --> 00:33:47.370
how do prediction markets,

1601
00:33:47.820 --> 00:33:48.050
you know,

1602
00:33:48.500 --> 00:33:49.700
work with you and and others to,

1603
00:33:49.780 --> 00:33:51.010
to make that more of a usable,

1604
00:33:51.180 --> 00:33:52.280
user-friendly experience?

1605
00:33:53.320 --> 00:33:53.550
Yeah,

1606
00:33:53.680 --> 00:33:53.980
for sure,

1607
00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:54.340
I mean,

1608
00:33:54.560 --> 00:33:56.420
there&#x27;s definitely like

1609
00:33:57.040 --> 00:34:00.590
lots of the exchanges are offering ah liquidity programs and

1610
00:34:00.590 --> 00:34:02.710
they&#x27;re doing that to try to beef up liquidity,

1611
00:34:02.880 --> 00:34:04.650
especially at points in time in which

1612
00:34:04.840 --> 00:34:07.270
traders are going to be interested in a market,

1613
00:34:07.560 --> 00:34:07.860
um,

1614
00:34:08.020 --> 00:34:12.420
so that will be around like a volatility event they know that some sort of,

1615
00:34:12.719 --> 00:34:12.909
ah,

1616
00:34:13.060 --> 00:34:14.139
news has just come out,

1617
00:34:14.239 --> 00:34:17.980
so they want to beef up the liquidity to make sure that makers are,

1618
00:34:18.120 --> 00:34:19.340
are directed there,

1619
00:34:19.639 --> 00:34:20.150
um.

1620
00:34:21.050 --> 00:34:21.469
And,

1621
00:34:21.489 --> 00:34:23.590
and then sometimes they&#x27;re making these maker agreements

1622
00:34:23.610 --> 00:34:25.630
with individual market makers in which they&#x27;re,

1623
00:34:25.650 --> 00:34:26.889
they&#x27;re signing something that&#x27;s saying,

1624
00:34:26.969 --> 00:34:27.159
OK,

1625
00:34:27.210 --> 00:34:27.540
I&#x27;m,

1626
00:34:27.610 --> 00:34:29.030
I&#x27;m committing to put up

1627
00:34:29.280 --> 00:34:29.830
quotes,

1628
00:34:29.850 --> 00:34:30.429
um,

1629
00:34:30.530 --> 00:34:33.280
with like this spread and this many,

1630
00:34:33.560 --> 00:34:34.070
um,

1631
00:34:34.090 --> 00:34:34.239
you know,

1632
00:34:34.290 --> 00:34:36.489
quantities so that you&#x27;re sure that.

1633
00:34:36.929 --> 00:34:37.889
When a trader comes along,

1634
00:34:37.969 --> 00:34:40.000
there&#x27;s not going to be some huge amount of slippage,

1635
00:34:40.489 --> 00:34:41.989
and I think that another thing that&#x27;s really

1636
00:34:42.010 --> 00:34:43.610
interesting in the political markets coming up,

1637
00:34:43.909 --> 00:34:45.060
especially around the midterms,

1638
00:34:45.120 --> 00:34:47.520
is some of these platforms are thinking about doing

1639
00:34:47.520 --> 00:34:49.989
combos kind of similar to parlays in sports,

1640
00:34:50.170 --> 00:34:51.350
but around politics,

1641
00:34:51.610 --> 00:34:54.080
and that&#x27;s something that&#x27;s going to be really interesting

1642
00:34:54.080 --> 00:34:56.989
to see what the liquidity environment is like because

1643
00:34:57.830 --> 00:34:58.860
Quoting these,

1644
00:34:59.020 --> 00:34:59.940
these events,

1645
00:34:59.990 --> 00:35:00.420
you know,

1646
00:35:00.790 --> 00:35:02.410
they&#x27;re definitely not independent.

1647
00:35:02.550 --> 00:35:05.410
A lot of the sports combos are easy to price because

1648
00:35:05.950 --> 00:35:06.720
they&#x27;re different teams,

1649
00:35:06.760 --> 00:35:08.140
it&#x27;s independent events,

1650
00:35:08.390 --> 00:35:08.810
um,

1651
00:35:09.070 --> 00:35:09.300
you know,

1652
00:35:09.390 --> 00:35:09.970
you just

1653
00:35:10.630 --> 00:35:10.820
say,

1654
00:35:10.870 --> 00:35:13.960
you just consider them to be independent and the math is very simple,

1655
00:35:14.230 --> 00:35:15.810
but with politics markets,

1656
00:35:16.190 --> 00:35:16.890
these things are

1657
00:35:17.030 --> 00:35:17.840
correlated,

1658
00:35:18.110 --> 00:35:19.870
and especially when you get to like,

1659
00:35:20.580 --> 00:35:22.050
345,

1660
00:35:22.900 --> 00:35:25.480
events all in one combo,

1661
00:35:26.060 --> 00:35:26.850
there can be some,

1662
00:35:26.980 --> 00:35:27.890
some hidden

1663
00:35:28.150 --> 00:35:30.880
probabilities and covariances between different,

1664
00:35:31.100 --> 00:35:31.530
um,

1665
00:35:31.740 --> 00:35:32.880
markets that

1666
00:35:33.020 --> 00:35:34.370
it&#x27;s going to be hard for makers to consider.

1667
00:35:34.460 --> 00:35:37.600
So I think that&#x27;s going to be a really interesting opportunity for,

1668
00:35:37.940 --> 00:35:38.170
ah,

1669
00:35:38.380 --> 00:35:38.740
the,

1670
00:35:38.950 --> 00:35:39.440
the,

1671
00:35:40.020 --> 00:35:40.170
you know,

1672
00:35:40.300 --> 00:35:42.570
takers out there who are interested in politics to,

1673
00:35:42.700 --> 00:35:45.470
to try to think through these scenarios and

1674
00:35:46.050 --> 00:35:46.280
You know,

1675
00:35:46.730 --> 00:35:48.200
see what they can get over on makers.

1676
00:35:48.250 --> 00:35:51.320
I&#x27;m not yet sure if I want to be quoting these things for that reason,

1677
00:35:51.410 --> 00:35:51.560
you know,

1678
00:35:51.610 --> 00:35:52.980
I think it&#x27;s gonna be really difficult,

1679
00:35:53.250 --> 00:35:53.320
uh,

1680
00:35:53.410 --> 00:35:54.920
but I think it&#x27;s also going to be really fun.

1681
00:35:55.090 --> 00:35:55.180
Yeah,

1682
00:35:55.290 --> 00:35:55.330
I,

1683
00:35:55.450 --> 00:35:56.920
I always say that that does interest me,

1684
00:35:57.010 --> 00:35:57.120
like,

1685
00:35:57.290 --> 00:35:57.790
especially because,

1686
00:35:57.890 --> 00:35:58.010
you know,

1687
00:35:58.050 --> 00:35:58.320
you get,

1688
00:35:58.370 --> 00:35:59.040
you find these things.

1689
00:35:59.090 --> 00:36:00.220
I feel like you can find these,

1690
00:36:00.610 --> 00:36:02.120
these things that are priced at like 85,

1691
00:36:02.210 --> 00:36:03.920
90% that I feel really confident in.

1692
00:36:04.130 --> 00:36:04.400
And that,

1693
00:36:04.530 --> 00:36:04.640
look,

1694
00:36:04.690 --> 00:36:04.930
I&#x27;ll,

1695
00:36:05.010 --> 00:36:06.120
I&#x27;ll take that 1520,

1696
00:36:06.210 --> 00:36:06.320
you know,

1697
00:36:06.410 --> 00:36:06.640
10,

1698
00:36:06.690 --> 00:36:07.760
15% all day.

1699
00:36:08.200 --> 00:36:10.140
But if I could combine a couple of those,

1700
00:36:10.440 --> 00:36:10.980
and

1701
00:36:11.120 --> 00:36:11.510
I don&#x27;t know,

1702
00:36:11.560 --> 00:36:11.870
it&#x27;s,

1703
00:36:11.960 --> 00:36:12.950
it would be pretty interesting.

1704
00:36:13.040 --> 00:36:13.840
It would be pretty interesting.

1705
00:36:13.920 --> 00:36:14.870
I&#x27;ll probably screw it up.

1706
00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:15.750
There&#x27;ll be one

1707
00:36:15.920 --> 00:36:17.670
there will be one leg that screws me up

1708
00:36:17.670 --> 00:36:19.550
and I will hate that politician more than anybody.

1709
00:36:19.810 --> 00:36:19.870
Uh,

1710
00:36:19.890 --> 00:36:20.360
in the world,

1711
00:36:20.560 --> 00:36:21.190
but that&#x27;s just me,

1712
00:36:21.240 --> 00:36:21.810
I suppose.

1713
00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:22.110
Um,

1714
00:36:22.280 --> 00:36:23.440
20 predict 2026.

1715
00:36:23.520 --> 00:36:24.350
I wanna get to this because,

1716
00:36:24.480 --> 00:36:24.630
uh,

1717
00:36:24.760 --> 00:36:24.910
you know,

1718
00:36:25.040 --> 00:36:26.190
this is gonna be a great event.

1719
00:36:26.320 --> 00:36:26.430
Uh,

1720
00:36:26.570 --> 00:36:27.560
there&#x27;s huge names there.

1721
00:36:27.650 --> 00:36:27.790
It&#x27;s,

1722
00:36:27.880 --> 00:36:28.480
it&#x27;s in New York.

1723
00:36:28.620 --> 00:36:28.630
Uh,

1724
00:36:29.040 --> 00:36:29.870
not only it&#x27;s in New York,

1725
00:36:29.950 --> 00:36:30.590
it&#x27;s in New York at,

1726
00:36:30.720 --> 00:36:30.870
you know,

1727
00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:31.360
Christmas time.

1728
00:36:31.440 --> 00:36:32.750
This is gonna be a really cool event.

1729
00:36:32.840 --> 00:36:32.990
You know,

1730
00:36:33.120 --> 00:36:33.380
lots of,

1731
00:36:33.440 --> 00:36:34.070
if you wanna go,

1732
00:36:34.160 --> 00:36:35.430
if you&#x27;re interested in this stuff,

1733
00:36:35.770 --> 00:36:36.110
check it out.

1734
00:36:36.160 --> 00:36:38.630
It&#x27;s predict 2026.org.

1735
00:36:38.680 --> 00:36:39.270
You can visit.

1736
00:36:39.610 --> 00:36:39.850
Uh,

1737
00:36:40.160 --> 00:36:40.670
there and check,

1738
00:36:40.760 --> 00:36:41.670
get out all the details.

1739
00:36:41.800 --> 00:36:43.830
Jesse Rosen and Tanner Lux&#x27;s putting this whole thing together.

1740
00:36:43.920 --> 00:36:44.920
It&#x27;s gonna be a lot of fun.

1741
00:36:44.960 --> 00:36:45.250
And

1742
00:36:45.440 --> 00:36:45.580
look,

1743
00:36:45.640 --> 00:36:46.390
this world is growing,

1744
00:36:46.440 --> 00:36:49.540
as everybody I know who watches the show on a day to day basis knows,

1745
00:36:49.840 --> 00:36:50.990
and it&#x27;s important that we,

1746
00:36:51.110 --> 00:36:51.190
we,

1747
00:36:51.280 --> 00:36:53.320
we look at this and understand where it&#x27;s going and,

1748
00:36:53.340 --> 00:36:54.590
and how we can be a part of it.

1749
00:36:54.800 --> 00:36:56.660
Predict 2026.org is the place to go.

1750
00:36:56.840 --> 00:36:57.110
Tanner,

1751
00:36:57.240 --> 00:36:57.510
Jesse,

1752
00:36:57.560 --> 00:36:58.150
thanks so much for coming on.

1753
00:36:58.240 --> 00:36:58.860
I appreciate it.

1754
00:36:59.520 --> 00:36:59.670
Yeah,

1755
00:36:59.840 --> 00:37:00.670
thank you for having us.

1756
00:37:00.830 --> 00:37:01.190
Thanks.

1757
00:37:16.490 --> 00:37:16.600
Alright,

1758
00:37:16.650 --> 00:37:19.320
it&#x27;s time for our candidate countdown candidate of the day.

1759
00:37:19.410 --> 00:37:21.350
We do a different candidate feature a different race,

1760
00:37:21.450 --> 00:37:21.520
uh,

1761
00:37:21.610 --> 00:37:21.920
that we&#x27;re,

1762
00:37:22.010 --> 00:37:24.050
that I have a position on every single day,

1763
00:37:24.170 --> 00:37:25.720
and today&#x27;s candidate of the day,

1764
00:37:25.770 --> 00:37:28.640
we&#x27;ve got 42 days left until the midterm election,

1765
00:37:28.810 --> 00:37:30.110
and we go to Florida

1766
00:37:30.250 --> 00:37:31.550
and we say hello

1767
00:37:31.970 --> 00:37:32.880
to Ashley Moody.

1768
00:37:32.970 --> 00:37:33.040
Yes,

1769
00:37:33.180 --> 00:37:33.910
Ashley Moody.

1770
00:37:34.130 --> 00:37:34.990
Running for Senate

1771
00:37:35.210 --> 00:37:35.670
in,

1772
00:37:35.890 --> 00:37:36.080
uh,

1773
00:37:36.260 --> 00:37:36.800
Florida,

1774
00:37:37.010 --> 00:37:40.350
she was appointed by DeSantis after uh Rubio left

1775
00:37:40.370 --> 00:37:42.280
to go to serve in the Trump administration.

1776
00:37:42.680 --> 00:37:44.060
Been the senator for a while there,

1777
00:37:44.280 --> 00:37:44.590
um,

1778
00:37:44.760 --> 00:37:44.980
and,

1779
00:37:45.080 --> 00:37:45.440
uh,

1780
00:37:45.680 --> 00:37:47.320
she is running in Florida and she,

1781
00:37:47.480 --> 00:37:48.480
she wound up getting a,

1782
00:37:48.560 --> 00:37:49.660
I think she was gonna win anyway,

1783
00:37:49.840 --> 00:37:52.550
but she also got a really bad candidate to go against her,

1784
00:37:52.640 --> 00:37:52.940
which is,

1785
00:37:53.080 --> 00:37:54.390
I always wanna say Cynthia Nixon,

1786
00:37:54.440 --> 00:37:54.980
which it&#x27;s not,

1787
00:37:55.000 --> 00:37:55.300
it&#x27;s,

1788
00:37:55.440 --> 00:37:55.910
uh,

1789
00:37:56.130 --> 00:37:56.550
something else,

1790
00:37:56.640 --> 00:37:56.990
Nixon,

1791
00:37:57.080 --> 00:37:57.590
what&#x27;s her name?

1792
00:38:00.220 --> 00:38:01.030
Angie Nixon,

1793
00:38:01.300 --> 00:38:01.810
thank you very much.

1794
00:38:01.900 --> 00:38:02.410
Angie Nixon.

1795
00:38:02.460 --> 00:38:03.170
I was gonna say Richard,

1796
00:38:03.220 --> 00:38:04.550
but I was pretty sure it wasn&#x27;t Richard.

1797
00:38:04.820 --> 00:38:04.890
Uh,

1798
00:38:05.020 --> 00:38:06.140
Angie Nixon is running there.

1799
00:38:06.180 --> 00:38:06.300
She,

1800
00:38:06.460 --> 00:38:07.730
she&#x27;s like the socialist candidate,

1801
00:38:07.820 --> 00:38:08.310
kind of a,

1802
00:38:08.540 --> 00:38:09.850
a wild-eyed socialist,

1803
00:38:09.990 --> 00:38:10.000
uh,

1804
00:38:10.140 --> 00:38:10.810
running in Florida,

1805
00:38:10.860 --> 00:38:12.520
which has become a very red state.

1806
00:38:13.140 --> 00:38:13.290
You know,

1807
00:38:13.380 --> 00:38:13.800
is this a,

1808
00:38:13.820 --> 00:38:14.890
a complete sure thing?

1809
00:38:14.910 --> 00:38:15.100
I mean,

1810
00:38:15.200 --> 00:38:15.490
no,

1811
00:38:15.590 --> 00:38:15.600
uh,

1812
00:38:15.700 --> 00:38:16.620
but I really like it.

1813
00:38:16.660 --> 00:38:17.590
I really like this race,

1814
00:38:17.650 --> 00:38:19.690
and one of the reasons I like it is every once in

1815
00:38:19.690 --> 00:38:22.040
a while there&#x27;s been a couple polls that have showed it close.

1816
00:38:22.600 --> 00:38:22.870
Again,

1817
00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:23.870
you know the thesis statement.

1818
00:38:23.920 --> 00:38:25.620
We talked about it in the first segment today.

1819
00:38:25.680 --> 00:38:25.890
Uh,

1820
00:38:26.240 --> 00:38:27.070
people tend to come home.

1821
00:38:27.120 --> 00:38:27.580
This is a,

1822
00:38:27.680 --> 00:38:27.830
you know,

1823
00:38:27.880 --> 00:38:29.190
a Republican state at this point.

1824
00:38:29.240 --> 00:38:30.160
It&#x27;s a red state.

1825
00:38:30.380 --> 00:38:33.950
I think by maybe not 2025 points like DeSantis has won it by,

1826
00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:34.500
but I think

1827
00:38:34.640 --> 00:38:36.260
high single digits is reasonable.

1828
00:38:36.480 --> 00:38:36.550
Uh,

1829
00:38:36.640 --> 00:38:40.170
Ashley Moody sounds alarmed with a second poll shows dead heat with Angie Nixon.

1830
00:38:40.240 --> 00:38:41.220
This is the headline

1831
00:38:41.480 --> 00:38:42.390
from Newsweek.

1832
00:38:42.570 --> 00:38:42.710
Now,

1833
00:38:43.040 --> 00:38:44.140
this is one of those things where like,

1834
00:38:44.160 --> 00:38:44.720
normally,

1835
00:38:44.960 --> 00:38:45.550
if you&#x27;re a candidate,

1836
00:38:45.600 --> 00:38:45.950
you wanna say,

1837
00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:46.640
I&#x27;m winning.

1838
00:38:46.760 --> 00:38:47.200
I&#x27;m winning,

1839
00:38:47.280 --> 00:38:47.670
I&#x27;m winning.

1840
00:38:47.690 --> 00:38:48.430
I&#x27;m doing great.

1841
00:38:48.950 --> 00:38:49.590
Ashley Moody,

1842
00:38:49.870 --> 00:38:50.460
oddly,

1843
00:38:50.590 --> 00:38:50.720
and,

1844
00:38:50.740 --> 00:38:53.690
and this is a new thing that has happened over the past few years,

1845
00:38:53.950 --> 00:38:54.890
and is also

1846
00:38:55.030 --> 00:38:57.980
common among not just Moody&#x27;s campaign or Republican campaigns,

1847
00:38:58.030 --> 00:38:58.650
but everybody,

1848
00:38:59.150 --> 00:39:01.780
is you actually are incentivized to point

1849
00:39:01.780 --> 00:39:04.090
out the bad things about what&#x27;s happening because

1850
00:39:04.950 --> 00:39:06.370
you want to fundraise off of them.

1851
00:39:06.590 --> 00:39:07.220
Holy crap,

1852
00:39:07.310 --> 00:39:08.140
we&#x27;re tied.

1853
00:39:08.430 --> 00:39:08.540
Uh,

1854
00:39:08.630 --> 00:39:08.780
oh,

1855
00:39:08.870 --> 00:39:09.180
no,

1856
00:39:09.410 --> 00:39:09.940
it&#x27;s 2 ties,

1857
00:39:10.070 --> 00:39:10.770
2 polls tied,

1858
00:39:10.790 --> 00:39:12.020
and there are 2 polls that are tied,

1859
00:39:12.070 --> 00:39:12.340
by the way,

1860
00:39:12.550 --> 00:39:13.850
Saint Pete polls,

1861
00:39:14.190 --> 00:39:14.340
uh,

1862
00:39:14.510 --> 00:39:15.820
and Change Research.

1863
00:39:16.270 --> 00:39:17.060
Have it as even,

1864
00:39:17.110 --> 00:39:20.130
but you see the other polls around it are pretty consistently

1865
00:39:20.350 --> 00:39:21.580
in the favor of Moody.

1866
00:39:21.670 --> 00:39:23.660
The most recent one from Insider Advantage,

1867
00:39:23.720 --> 00:39:25.670
which is a new poll from a few days ago,

1868
00:39:25.870 --> 00:39:27.560
has Moody up by 8 points.

1869
00:39:27.750 --> 00:39:29.090
Qantas had her up by 7.

1870
00:39:29.710 --> 00:39:31.620
University of North Florida had her up.

1871
00:39:31.720 --> 00:39:32.610
The various

1872
00:39:32.950 --> 00:39:35.220
measures in July by 8 and 10 points.

1873
00:39:35.470 --> 00:39:36.100
These two polls,

1874
00:39:36.180 --> 00:39:36.300
look,

1875
00:39:36.350 --> 00:39:36.660
I would be,

1876
00:39:36.750 --> 00:39:38.380
of course you&#x27;d be worried about a poll that&#x27;s close,

1877
00:39:38.470 --> 00:39:38.700
but I&#x27;m,

1878
00:39:38.750 --> 00:39:39.650
I&#x27;m pretty confident

1879
00:39:39.870 --> 00:39:40.930
in Ashley Moody.

1880
00:39:41.150 --> 00:39:42.790
It is one of my biggest positions.

1881
00:39:42.870 --> 00:39:44.260
This is what the market looks like right now,

1882
00:39:44.310 --> 00:39:45.880
and the reason why it&#x27;s not 95%,

1883
00:39:45.950 --> 00:39:46.390
98%,

1884
00:39:46.430 --> 00:39:47.060
99%.

1885
00:39:47.470 --> 00:39:47.580
Uh,

1886
00:39:47.710 --> 00:39:49.970
is because of these couple of polls,

1887
00:39:50.270 --> 00:39:50.550
um,

1888
00:39:50.870 --> 00:39:51.360
uh,

1889
00:39:51.750 --> 00:39:51.970
you know,

1890
00:39:52.590 --> 00:39:53.260
she&#x27;s competitive.

1891
00:39:53.310 --> 00:39:53.460
I mean,

1892
00:39:53.550 --> 00:39:55.930
Nixon&#x27;s more competitive than she would normally be.

1893
00:39:56.070 --> 00:39:56.820
In another year,

1894
00:39:56.910 --> 00:39:58.060
she ran in 2024,

1895
00:39:58.190 --> 00:39:59.580
she&#x27;d get absolutely destroyed,

1896
00:39:59.630 --> 00:40:00.190
but it&#x27;s 20,

1897
00:40:00.430 --> 00:40:01.540
it&#x27;s 2018 all over again,

1898
00:40:01.560 --> 00:40:02.200
at least,

1899
00:40:02.390 --> 00:40:03.830
it seems like in some of these cases.

1900
00:40:03.910 --> 00:40:04.290
So

1901
00:40:04.580 --> 00:40:05.930
she is more competitive.

1902
00:40:06.190 --> 00:40:06.400
Uh,

1903
00:40:06.790 --> 00:40:09.860
Polly market here has Ashley Moody at 92%.

1904
00:40:10.270 --> 00:40:11.100
Angie Nixon.

1905
00:40:11.880 --> 00:40:12.860
At 9%.

1906
00:40:12.920 --> 00:40:13.060
I,

1907
00:40:13.150 --> 00:40:15.370
I wanna say Calci is a little bit more

1908
00:40:15.750 --> 00:40:16.370
um

1909
00:40:16.590 --> 00:40:18.260
uh favorable for Nixon.

1910
00:40:18.310 --> 00:40:21.170
I wanna say it&#x27;s 90 to 10% or something in that vicinity.

1911
00:40:21.350 --> 00:40:21.550
Again,

1912
00:40:21.590 --> 00:40:22.490
this is a race that

1913
00:40:22.870 --> 00:40:24.930
only utter catastrophe

1914
00:40:25.110 --> 00:40:28.490
really could could endanger Ashley Moody.

1915
00:40:29.400 --> 00:40:30.050
Not impossible,

1916
00:40:30.140 --> 00:40:31.450
but I really like the candidate.

1917
00:40:31.500 --> 00:40:32.760
I really like the play here.

1918
00:40:33.020 --> 00:40:34.890
So that is my candidate of the day,

1919
00:40:35.100 --> 00:40:36.690
kind of playing off the GOP optimism.

1920
00:40:36.780 --> 00:40:36.930
Let&#x27;s,

1921
00:40:36.980 --> 00:40:40.380
let&#x27;s look at a race that maybe the Republicans are a little excited about.

1922
00:40:40.660 --> 00:40:40.760
Uh,

1923
00:40:40.900 --> 00:40:43.050
Ashley Moody getting in there and winning an election

1924
00:40:43.050 --> 00:40:44.850
will probably have her there for as long as,

1925
00:40:44.980 --> 00:40:45.130
you know,

1926
00:40:45.390 --> 00:40:46.910
for at least a good period of time,

1927
00:40:47.220 --> 00:40:47.330
uh,

1928
00:40:47.420 --> 00:40:50.130
if she is able to win in this particular race.

1929
00:40:50.210 --> 00:40:51.130
It&#x27;s not always easy.

1930
00:40:51.380 --> 00:40:51.490
Uh,

1931
00:40:51.860 --> 00:40:53.670
an incumbency has its advantages.

1932
00:40:53.860 --> 00:40:56.520
That advantage is oftentimes minimized

1933
00:40:56.660 --> 00:40:57.530
if you were appointed.

1934
00:40:58.310 --> 00:40:58.490
You know,

1935
00:40:58.510 --> 00:40:58.770
I don&#x27;t know,

1936
00:40:58.820 --> 00:40:58.850
I,

1937
00:40:59.060 --> 00:40:59.290
I guess,

1938
00:40:59.380 --> 00:40:59.550
you know,

1939
00:40:59.940 --> 00:41:00.850
people don&#x27;t have that connection,

1940
00:41:00.960 --> 00:41:01.100
right?

1941
00:41:01.180 --> 00:41:02.420
They didn&#x27;t vote for you.

1942
00:41:02.440 --> 00:41:03.410
You appointed by DeSantis,

1943
00:41:03.520 --> 00:41:04.050
so there,

1944
00:41:04.180 --> 00:41:04.540
that is,

1945
00:41:04.620 --> 00:41:04.650
uh,

1946
00:41:04.740 --> 00:41:04.890
you know,

1947
00:41:05.020 --> 00:41:06.850
I wouldn&#x27;t treat her as a normal incumbent where

1948
00:41:06.850 --> 00:41:08.550
I would even have her as a higher favorite.

1949
00:41:08.920 --> 00:41:10.760
But I&#x27;m totally comfortable buying her,

1950
00:41:10.940 --> 00:41:11.280
uh,

1951
00:41:11.420 --> 00:41:11.550
uh,

1952
00:41:11.690 --> 00:41:13.430
buying shares of her political,

1953
00:41:13.530 --> 00:41:14.230
I always say weird,

1954
00:41:14.280 --> 00:41:14.520
I,

1955
00:41:14.640 --> 00:41:16.260
I feel really comfortable buying her.

1956
00:41:16.440 --> 00:41:17.530
It just feels weird.

1957
00:41:17.640 --> 00:41:19.310
It feels a little sexual slavery,

1958
00:41:19.330 --> 00:41:19.820
and I don&#x27;t,

1959
00:41:20.040 --> 00:41:21.220
it&#x27;s not what I&#x27;m looking for here.

1960
00:41:21.400 --> 00:41:23.200
I&#x27;m looking to buy shares of her contract

1961
00:41:23.360 --> 00:41:24.590
in a political election.

1962
00:41:24.800 --> 00:41:25.470
90 cents.

1963
00:41:25.520 --> 00:41:25.910
I like,

1964
00:41:26.040 --> 00:41:26.830
I like that price.

1965
00:41:26.960 --> 00:41:27.320
So

1966
00:41:27.480 --> 00:41:27.910
that&#x27;s where we are.

1967
00:41:27.960 --> 00:41:28.510
Ashley Moody,

1968
00:41:28.600 --> 00:41:28.850
our,

1969
00:41:28.960 --> 00:41:29.110
uh,

1970
00:41:29.240 --> 00:41:31.110
candidate countdown candidate of the day.

1971
00:41:43.650 --> 00:41:45.480
Another episode of Stranger Trades where we

1972
00:41:45.480 --> 00:41:48.150
highlight the bizarre things that happen on

1973
00:41:48.330 --> 00:41:49.030
prediction markets,

1974
00:41:49.050 --> 00:41:50.030
and sometimes they do.

1975
00:41:50.170 --> 00:41:51.960
And that&#x27;s kind of what makes them fun sometimes,

1976
00:41:52.250 --> 00:41:53.750
unless of course you&#x27;re on the wrong side

1977
00:41:53.970 --> 00:41:54.840
of one of those trades.

1978
00:41:54.930 --> 00:41:56.180
The stranger trades yesterday

1979
00:41:56.370 --> 00:41:59.040
has to do with uh Donald Trump&#x27;s battles with the media.

1980
00:41:59.170 --> 00:42:02.900
He has been uh taking people uh different media organizations and saying,

1981
00:42:02.970 --> 00:42:03.080
yeah,

1982
00:42:03.170 --> 00:42:03.240
well,

1983
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you&#x27;re banned from the White House.

1984
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uh,

1985
00:42:05.330 --> 00:42:07.550
and there has been some

1986
00:42:08.010 --> 00:42:09.840
weirdness associated with that.

1987
00:42:10.220 --> 00:42:10.330
Uh,

1988
00:42:10.460 --> 00:42:12.330
one of the things is they&#x27;re not using,

1989
00:42:12.540 --> 00:42:14.040
they&#x27;re not doing pool audio anymore.

1990
00:42:14.420 --> 00:42:15.460
Usually what happens is.

1991
00:42:15.690 --> 00:42:16.980
Instead of every single

1992
00:42:17.200 --> 00:42:19.220
news organization having to bring their own microphone,

1993
00:42:19.520 --> 00:42:19.670
uh,

1994
00:42:19.800 --> 00:42:21.180
to every single press conference,

1995
00:42:21.440 --> 00:42:23.010
they usually have like responsibilities.

1996
00:42:23.120 --> 00:42:25.350
So there&#x27;s a pool and someone someone does it.

1997
00:42:25.770 --> 00:42:25.880
Uh,

1998
00:42:26.010 --> 00:42:27.670
and kind of provides it to everybody.

1999
00:42:28.010 --> 00:42:28.320
Well,

2000
00:42:28.650 --> 00:42:30.840
they&#x27;re kind of protesting this because they don&#x27;t like what

2001
00:42:30.840 --> 00:42:32.600
he&#x27;s done with kicking people out of the White House.

2002
00:42:32.650 --> 00:42:32.760
Uh,

2003
00:42:32.890 --> 00:42:35.690
and what happened was he did an event and there was no audio.

2004
00:42:36.010 --> 00:42:38.120
Trump inaudible during TV blackout,

2005
00:42:38.490 --> 00:42:39.920
what the press pool does,

2006
00:42:39.970 --> 00:42:41.350
and the Axios explains

2007
00:42:41.660 --> 00:42:42.440
what we&#x27;re talking about.

2008
00:42:42.490 --> 00:42:43.820
This is what it looked like yesterday,

2009
00:42:43.890 --> 00:42:45.290
and it&#x27;s got a tie to prediction markets,

2010
00:42:45.330 --> 00:42:45.810
which is very,

2011
00:42:45.890 --> 00:42:46.840
very interesting.

2012
00:42:47.130 --> 00:42:47.920
Here&#x27;s the event.

2013
00:42:48.130 --> 00:42:48.200
Uh,

2014
00:42:48.330 --> 00:42:48.910
he is doing,

2015
00:42:49.090 --> 00:42:49.900
this is for a,

2016
00:42:50.020 --> 00:42:50.920
I think a helipad,

2017
00:42:51.070 --> 00:42:51.200
right?

2018
00:42:51.290 --> 00:42:51.930
Wasn&#x27;t it

2019
00:42:52.240 --> 00:42:52.640
something like that?

2020
00:42:52.660 --> 00:42:53.370
I don&#x27;t even know.

2021
00:42:53.530 --> 00:42:53.920
He&#x27;s ribbon,

2022
00:42:54.010 --> 00:42:54.880
it was a ribbon cutting.

2023
00:42:55.430 --> 00:42:56.570
And he&#x27;s just,

2024
00:42:56.780 --> 00:42:58.490
you can see Trump&#x27;s mouth moving.

2025
00:42:58.710 --> 00:42:59.630
You can see him talking to everyone.

2026
00:42:59.710 --> 00:43:01.060
It looks like a totally normal event,

2027
00:43:01.230 --> 00:43:02.490
except instead,

2028
00:43:03.550 --> 00:43:04.440
hearing what he&#x27;s saying

2029
00:43:05.060 --> 00:43:07.990
because there&#x27;s no microphone because the pool cameras aren&#x27;t there.

2030
00:43:08.110 --> 00:43:08.830
So maybe,

2031
00:43:09.230 --> 00:43:09.260
uh,

2032
00:43:09.430 --> 00:43:09.620
Tim,

2033
00:43:09.670 --> 00:43:12.580
this is one example of it backfiring just a little bit,

2034
00:43:12.780 --> 00:43:13.020
um,

2035
00:43:13.310 --> 00:43:15.330
pick up on some of the things

2036
00:43:15.870 --> 00:43:17.020
Michael was saying.

2037
00:43:17.430 --> 00:43:18.180
So that&#x27;s Newsmax,

2038
00:43:18.230 --> 00:43:18.420
by the way,

2039
00:43:18.510 --> 00:43:18.780
saying like,

2040
00:43:18.870 --> 00:43:18.900
yeah,

2041
00:43:18.990 --> 00:43:19.360
maybe this,

2042
00:43:19.390 --> 00:43:19.540
uh,

2043
00:43:20.390 --> 00:43:20.480
all right,

2044
00:43:20.510 --> 00:43:21.170
that&#x27;s enough guys,

2045
00:43:21.310 --> 00:43:21.460
um,

2046
00:43:21.750 --> 00:43:22.150
where there&#x27;s like,

2047
00:43:22.230 --> 00:43:22.260
uh,

2048
00:43:22.390 --> 00:43:23.570
maybe that&#x27;s a little bit too much,

2049
00:43:23.670 --> 00:43:23.820
uh,

2050
00:43:23.990 --> 00:43:25.110
battling with the media anyway.

2051
00:43:25.590 --> 00:43:28.190
What&#x27;s interesting about this is there was a mention market

2052
00:43:28.590 --> 00:43:29.820
set up for this event.

2053
00:43:29.950 --> 00:43:32.480
What will Trump say at this particular

2054
00:43:32.890 --> 00:43:33.470
event?

2055
00:43:33.910 --> 00:43:35.050
This is what it looks like on,

2056
00:43:35.150 --> 00:43:35.220
uh,

2057
00:43:35.320 --> 00:43:36.260
Calci right now.

2058
00:43:36.370 --> 00:43:36.480
Uh,

2059
00:43:37.230 --> 00:43:38.300
the graph looks a little bit weird.

2060
00:43:38.350 --> 00:43:38.990
You can ignore that,

2061
00:43:39.030 --> 00:43:39.810
but kind of go down.

2062
00:43:39.990 --> 00:43:40.720
What is he gonna say?

2063
00:43:40.750 --> 00:43:41.860
If you don&#x27;t know what a mention market is,

2064
00:43:41.990 --> 00:43:42.690
they give you a big list,

2065
00:43:42.790 --> 00:43:42.910
right?

2066
00:43:42.950 --> 00:43:43.140
Oil,

2067
00:43:43.160 --> 00:43:43.420
gas,

2068
00:43:43.510 --> 00:43:44.020
helicopter,

2069
00:43:44.110 --> 00:43:44.280
right?

2070
00:43:44.430 --> 00:43:44.690
Uh,

2071
00:43:44.990 --> 00:43:45.450
Biden,

2072
00:43:45.670 --> 00:43:45.780
uh,

2073
00:43:45.950 --> 00:43:46.420
Melania,

2074
00:43:46.510 --> 00:43:48.450
all these different things that he might say.

2075
00:43:49.070 --> 00:43:49.180
Well,

2076
00:43:49.270 --> 00:43:49.540
of course,

2077
00:43:49.590 --> 00:43:49.970
the

2078
00:43:51.240 --> 00:43:52.510
The answer to all of them were no,

2079
00:43:52.600 --> 00:43:53.430
because he didn&#x27;t say anything,

2080
00:43:53.480 --> 00:43:55.300
at least on at least on the microphone.

2081
00:43:55.480 --> 00:43:56.550
It&#x27;s an interesting

2082
00:43:57.490 --> 00:44:01.060
conversation there because he obviously did say some of these things.

2083
00:44:01.160 --> 00:44:02.780
I don&#x27;t know how they&#x27;re gonna play this out.

2084
00:44:02.960 --> 00:44:04.290
The fact that you couldn&#x27;t hear,

2085
00:44:04.520 --> 00:44:07.150
there&#x27;s no confirmation of him saying any of those things.

2086
00:44:07.200 --> 00:44:08.650
Every single market

2087
00:44:08.790 --> 00:44:10.270
resolved to know.

2088
00:44:10.680 --> 00:44:10.870
So,

2089
00:44:11.060 --> 00:44:11.260
again,

2090
00:44:11.480 --> 00:44:12.390
if you had no shares,

2091
00:44:12.440 --> 00:44:12.870
you did very,

2092
00:44:12.960 --> 00:44:14.010
very well in that market.

2093
00:44:14.160 --> 00:44:15.340
If you had some yeses,

2094
00:44:15.560 --> 00:44:16.310
maybe not so well.

2095
00:44:16.390 --> 00:44:18.490
It&#x27;s just another weird thing that happens on prediction markets.

2096
00:44:18.600 --> 00:44:20.710
What&#x27;s fun about this area is it is a new frontier.

2097
00:44:20.840 --> 00:44:22.340
We don&#x27;t know everything that&#x27;s gonna happen.

2098
00:44:22.560 --> 00:44:22.630
Uh,

2099
00:44:22.800 --> 00:44:23.540
so sometimes

2100
00:44:23.840 --> 00:44:24.930
we all get surprised.

2101
00:44:25.120 --> 00:44:25.380
Uh,

2102
00:44:25.680 --> 00:44:26.790
you get surprised a little bit less.

2103
00:44:26.880 --> 00:44:27.600
We try to make this

2104
00:44:27.720 --> 00:44:30.700
unpredictable world a little bit more predictable here on this show.

2105
00:44:30.920 --> 00:44:33.310
You can go further at predictableshow.com.

2106
00:44:33.360 --> 00:44:34.790
If you have a premium subscription,

2107
00:44:34.830 --> 00:44:35.740
you get every one of my picks,

2108
00:44:35.760 --> 00:44:37.680
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2109
00:44:37.770 --> 00:44:39.260
so you get all these positions early.

2110
00:44:39.630 --> 00:44:39.780
Uh,

2111
00:44:39.950 --> 00:44:43.050
you also get a great community conversation of people talking

2112
00:44:43.310 --> 00:44:44.620
about prediction markets and,

2113
00:44:44.660 --> 00:44:44.670
uh,

2114
00:44:44.710 --> 00:44:45.790
and all the associated,

2115
00:44:45.950 --> 00:44:46.060
uh,

2116
00:44:46.270 --> 00:44:46.820
fun there.

2117
00:44:46.950 --> 00:44:47.190
There&#x27;s,

2118
00:44:47.270 --> 00:44:47.340
uh,

2119
00:44:47.430 --> 00:44:48.580
also the prediction model.

2120
00:44:48.630 --> 00:44:49.380
We have the PMC,

2121
00:44:49.470 --> 00:44:49.810
the,

2122
00:44:50.150 --> 00:44:50.300
uh,

2123
00:44:50.510 --> 00:44:51.850
predict predictable,

2124
00:44:52.030 --> 00:44:52.140
uh,

2125
00:44:52.230 --> 00:44:52.790
medium,

2126
00:44:53.080 --> 00:44:53.730
predictable,

2127
00:44:54.190 --> 00:44:54.330
uh,

2128
00:44:54.430 --> 00:44:54.970
midterm

2129
00:44:55.070 --> 00:44:55.700
consensus,

2130
00:44:55.870 --> 00:44:55.980
uh,

2131
00:44:56.110 --> 00:44:56.630
which is up there.

2132
00:44:56.670 --> 00:44:57.220
The PMC,

2133
00:44:57.310 --> 00:44:57.370
uh,

2134
00:44:57.510 --> 00:44:59.460
shows you all the breakdowns of what the experts are saying

2135
00:44:59.460 --> 00:45:01.950
and every single state broken down for premium subscribers as well.

2136
00:45:01.990 --> 00:45:03.140
So there&#x27;s tons of stuff,

2137
00:45:03.260 --> 00:45:03.340
uh,

2138
00:45:03.550 --> 00:45:03.800
for you,

2139
00:45:03.910 --> 00:45:04.230
for you to,

2140
00:45:04.310 --> 00:45:04.930
to play with

2141
00:45:05.060 --> 00:45:06.140
at predictableshow.com.

2142
00:45:06.350 --> 00:45:07.630
Go there and join us.

2143
00:45:07.790 --> 00:45:08.460
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