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It's a Numbers Game: The Numbers Behind the Rising Violent Threats in America
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Foreign welcome back to A Numbers Game with Ryan Graduski. Happy Monday everyone. Rise and grind. I know we're late in the day, so hopefully you've already risen and grinded. I have new polling numbers, which is always great way to start the week. This poll comes from Beacon and Shaw. It was published by Fox News, by the way. I'm going to start talking about polls by who does them, not just the company that produces and releases them. Right, because Fox News is the publisher, but they don't actually do the poll. And people dismiss polls when they see certain media outlets have have published them. But that's not who does them. Beacon and Shaw does the poll and they're a moderately good pollster. They're not the best in the business, but they're certainly not the worst. So anyway, interesting numbers worth looking at. The poll finds that Donald Trump has a 46% poll favorability rating, 54% unfavorable rating. Now this poll does not include undecided. I'm not a big fan of polls that don't have undecided voters in them, but 46% nonetheless are is a decent number for Trump. His best issues remain immigration, the border and crime. But Trump's worst issues are the cost of living, Russia, Ukraine, war, tariffs and the economy. Now I now remember what I told you when we had our conversation about data centers. This was last week, or maybe the week prior at this point I talked to, the cost of living and energy bills and food prices was becoming the main issue in the Virginia and New Jersey governor's races. And that could spread to nationally as like as this issue continues to mount going into the 2026 midterms, energy prices are only going to go up as data centers are springing up throughout the country. I said the media has done a very good job at framing the conversation around tariffs. But when we look at things like food, yes, we import food, certain food products like bananas, for example, but we also grow a lot of our own food. And prices have risen as electricity costs at grocery stores have also increased. According to the Beacon Shaw poll released by Fox News, the economy is the most important issue to voters. Minds by like a mile, right? It's not even close. 40%, almost 40% say that they have that, that the economy is number one. Immigration is a very, very distant second with 13. Now the poll was taken from September to September 9, obviously before the assassination of Charlie Kirk. And while I think the economy will remain the most important issue facing voters, certainly this November, the assassination is different than other political events. The things that, you know, people have made issues of, but the media really has made an issue of. But then, you know, real voters never cared. They were nothing. Burgers, right? They like to harp on this for ratings and retweets and clicks. Things like the national guard in D.C. people really didn't get up in arms. You know, maybe outside of a few progressives in Washington D.C. but it wasn't what people were talking about over the kitchen table at dinner every night. Charlie's murder has had a profound impact on people in a way that's not, not like these other events. Not just people who were close to him or people like me who knew him, but even though I wasn't particularly close to him, but I knew him. I was at a wedding over the weekend and it was mostly conservative people, but strangers who I did not know, who I never met, were walking up to me wanting to talk about Charlie. Now, obviously, I'm a pretty identifiable conservative person, especially if you've seen some of my clips. But millions of people have started following Charlie Kirk and his wife Erica and the Turning Point USA social media pages. In the wake of his murder, Yashar Ali reported that Charlie's Instagram has has gained more than 5 million new followers. Erica's gained 4.6 million and Turning Point USA has gained 2.2 million. It's been widely reported that more than 32, 000 requests have come in to Turning Point to start new college chapters. That's, that's wild. That's something different. And then there's all the reports that people went to church this week. And I know a few people, but that's anecdotal. There's no, been no study or no, no hard data to work that in. I do know a few people who don't usually go to church, who went to church in this last weekend. But something feels different and not just among conservatives, but people in general. I will tell you I spoke to some very well known conservative friends of mine, people who have large followings, people who are on television and have big social media handles. And we talked about the feeling of being unsafe, which I have felt for a while, long before Charlie's murder. Conservative creators, conservative commentators easily identify conservative, conservative politicians who I've spoken to feel like there's a target on our back. I will say from my own personal experience that I did a debate for Young Voices with Michael Tracy a couple months ago after the New year and it was my first experience since being canceled on CNN that I did a public appearance. And I'm telling you, I was very nervous. I kept on asking the organizers about security, what's the state of our security? And they all said it was like, it's fine, don't worry. And when I showed up, there was no security there. And it turned out to be fine. Everything turned out to be okay. But my concerns were real and they weren't taken seriously. I knew how dangerous it was. I've not told people about this and I don't want to make a thing out of it, but after my scene and appearance where I made the beeper joke, I did not realize that my personal Instagram, where I don't even post about politics, DMs were open and I received in the night that person that the night after the CNN joke when I went to bed, I looked at my phone. I said I had well over a thousand hateful messages sent to me and many, many death threats. People got a hold of my phone number, family members of mine, phone number started calling, leaving threatening messages, harassing them. I ended up right after that, you know, I, I walked my dog the next day and someone, random person screamed at me in, in a park and said, you know, f cnn. And they were taking my side. But it was very alarming that someone identified me. I'm not, I'm not someone who's very famous, you know what I mean? I'm not somebody who, I'm not at Charlie's level. And I never was and I never pretended to be. Charlie had 20 times the audience that I had on Twitter at the time of his death. And I shaved my beard and I went on a long extended vacation out of the country and no one recognized me. And it took me a while. And thankfully the election happened and it went well and everyone kind of forgot. But I'll speak on behalf of a lot of conservatives and say that the only difference between Charlie and us is how big of a target we have. It's not a question of if there's a target, it's how big is feels dangerous right now. It feels concerning. And it got me thinking about political assassinations and political violence. Over the weekend, I started reading a book called Days of Rage, America's Underground, the FBI and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence by Brian Burrow. It's a long book, so I'm not done with it yet, but it talks of the 1960s and 70s and the turbulent decade in American history that I. People have, people, including me, feel like we're kind of, kind of there. You know, we feel like we're there again. I'm only five chapters in the book. I could say we're not at the 1970s level. According to Days of Rage, America had dozens of progressive domestic terrorist groups seeking to overthrow the government of the United States. And of course, there was really famous ones like the Weatherman Under Weather Underground and the Black Panthers. But there were a lot of lesser known ones. The Sudanese Liberation army, the Black Liberation Army, United Freedom Front, the Puerto Rican Independence army, and the George Jackson Parade. And these groups were very violent and they intended to overthrow the government. During an 18 month period from 1971 to 1972, there were 2500 bombings, domestic bombings in the United States. Bombings happen so frequently, almost five per day in the country, that the media didn't even frequently publish them unless people died. And thankfully, most of these times, most of these bombings didn't result in death. Only 1% did. The largest bombing only had four deaths. So it wasn't, it wasn't like we're seeing like mass shootings, right, where the, a dozen people could die or, or 10 people could die. And they often always result in deaths of some sort. There was very few deaths related to these bombings, thankfully. A man named Samuel Melville was the man who created the style of bombing attacks used by the Weathermen Underground and other leftist revolutionary groups. He was responsible for 10 bombings between July and November 1969, and he later died in the attic of prison riots. In 1971, there were other things that happened that I had never even heard of. Like in 1961, 60 black nationals stormed the United Nations General Council, and the incident led to dozens of injuries. There was also the zebra murders where a black gang in San Francisco was targeting and murdering white people. It was really violent, more violent than people remember. I think what's interesting about the book and comparing its circumstances then to what's happening now is as different and certainly less violent as it is now. As far as the magnitude, we're not experiencing 2500 bombings in 18 months. The roots of the problem feel very similar. Like myself, a lot of people like myself thought that the Vietnam War was the main actor in this level of political violence, but it's actually very little. According to the book, the Vietnam, Vietnam War was part of it, but it was also almost a front by these revolutionary socialists who wanted to overthrow the government. They were using it as a grievance. But the main source of why they were trying to overthrow the government was to combat racism. Right. They were talking about racism as the main central principle. They wanted black authenticity of their struggle. Which is very funny coming from post blm where race and identity was the center point of a lot of left wing activists, including by many, many white people. Now, granted, America was a much more racist country back then. There was legitimate acts of RAC and laws against black people on the books in parts of the country, especially the Deep south at the time. That doesn't justify what they did, but they had some legitimacy in their grievances. Those laws don't exist today, even though some progressives act like they do. And that level of racism doesn't exist today, even though there's a perception promoted by the media that there is. You see people like Jasmine Crockett talking about, you know, ICE agents looking like slaveholders. That's utter nonsense. And it's a desecration of what actually happened. It doesn't matter though, because the rhetoric is there. What's very interesting is that the white radicals of the 1960s and 70s were as extreme as the black ones. But white radicals believed that they could create a working class coalition around the issue of race and like, trying to promote, like, Maoism. This mostly came out of the Ivy Leagues at the time and it was utterly rejected by working class Americans like it is today. Most of these people, these radicals who have attempted or been successful in political violence, they're coming out of college. These aren't, you know, blue collar guys who work on cars. The decade of the 1960s and 70s was incredibly turbulent and there was so many politically motivated or you know, politically motivated assassinations. Jfk, rfk, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Turk Scott, George Moscone, Harvey Milk, George Lincoln Rockwell. The the last political journalist before Charlie who was assassinated happened a decade later. It was 1984. It was a radio host named Alan Berg who was murdered by white supremacists who were anti Semit. I think right now what's happening and the place that we're in is finger pointing. Right now. That's what we're doing. We are finger pointing to say who is really responsible, who is responsible for the increase in violence, who's in responsible for the R and who is responsible for the violence that led to Charlie's assassination. I want to talk about that and focus on that next.
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So a lot of nonprofits like the ADL and the Southern Poverty Law center have built lists of hate groups or moderating political violence. But those organizations are not reliable sources at all. And I I'm telling my listeners if you see them being used as sources to mostly ignore it. They are progressive institutions that look to demonize Republicans and conservatives and occasionally sprinkle in a few left wingers when it's extremely obvious that they're committing acts of violence, you know, with a progressive cause. I looked at these databases. I looked at what they were citing as violence and nonviolence in 2020 and 2021 there was a ton of violence that sprang out of the left wing activists, the BLM riots and the subsequent anarchist groups in places like Seattle. Remember Chaz? It was an autonomous zone created by Antifa. In 2021 in Seattle there were many incidences of rape and assault and violence and even murder at the at the Chaz at the autonomous zone created by left wing anarchists. But when I went through the databases didn't list a single one of them. Also remember Minneapolis police station being set on Fire on May 28, 2020 by BLM Rioters not listed anywhere wasn't considered an act of politically motivated violence. The University of Cincinnati created a big database called the Prosecution Project to look at felony criminal cases involving political violence during all of 2020. And I read through all their database through 2020, through the summer of Love where BLM riders and antifa activists were torching parts of this country. They only had 10 incidences of left wing violence. Two of them were associated with BLM activists who had Molotov cocktails. Aside from that, nothing was listed. None of the most obvious cases of left wing violence of that time were included in any of this because under activist DA's cases were dropped, right? They were looking at prosecutions, but there was no prosecution in many of these cases. So they weren't listening. But it doesn't mean it didn't happen. This is the space that right wingers actually need to fill if we're going to have this conversation. I spent a lot of time trying to make my own assessment and assortment of different information and the information is incomplete. We need real researchers to do this because otherwise organizations that promote progressive ideology get to create the narratives that the media cloms onto and that non political people choose to believe that the mainstream chooses to believe. Right. The economists reposted their this data and it was completely not factual. Now that's not to say that there have been no cases of right wingers who have caused politically motivated attacks. I don't want to get anyone confused or assume that I'm blaming one side and forgiving all the other. Certainly the attack against Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul Pelosi was committed by a conspiracy minded right winger. And what happened to Paul Pelosi was horrifying. It was tragic and it should have been widely condemned and universally condemned and instead was a subject of mockery and conspiracy theories by mainstream conservatives. And I'm going to call that out because I saw it at the time and didn't like it and now I have a platform to say it according to the center for Strategic and International Studies. One thing is clear. Politically targeted attacks have become more partisan in nature and mostly committed by lone wolves. It used to be the case, especially in the 90s, that politically, and going back to the 70s, politically motivated attacks acts were predominantly caused by people in affiliated organizations like sovereign citizens or right wing militias, or the Weatherman underground or black nationalists, something like that. That has given way to people who are being radicalized online and motivated by partisan political beliefs and acting as lone wolves. Many of the time that we've seen in the last few years, in the last few months and weeks, they are copycat killers. They're copycat attackers. They're copying other famous attacks. There's no question in my mind that the person who assassinated and murdered Charlie Kirk copied Luigi Mangione's murder of Brian Thompson based on how they engraved the bullet casings. That's what happens with a lot of crime. Copycat killers are very, very common, especially when the media amplifies these mass murders. Remember, the first person to copy the Columb shooting was a man named James Rossi, who did it eight days after Columbine at his school in Canada. The first person to copy it in America was in 2021 in California. And that was when information was a lot slower. America was much more easily shocked and fragile at these events. Since then, school shootings from around the globe have copied Columbine, which is the most infamous, though unfortunately not the most deadly school shooting about all time. And that's what I fear is going to come out of Charlie Kirk's assassination, is copycat killings. Especially given that violence is increasingly being justified on the left. A survey from Rutgers University found that 21% of respondents on the left believe that violence and murder of Donald Trump is completely justified. Now, you may be saying 1/5, that's not a majority. And no, it's not. It's not a majority. But when you're talking about millions of people, a fifth is a lot of people who could be radicalized, who don't have a moral compass, who don't see someone's value and that they have a soul or that they were created in the image of God. They don't see any of that. Look at how the left has treated Luigi Mangione. He's a cult hero to some of them. They sell candles with his likeness as a saint or as Jesus Christ pictured on it. I have to tell you, I listen to a lot of progressive podcasts way more than conservatives, mostly because I laugh at them. I think that they're Ridiculous. You know, I listen to a bunch and I think that they are so unhinged and what they say is not true. And I understand a little bit of what their reasoning is from these listening episodes, but it's mostly to laugh at them. But I've heard a number of them say, free Luigi, Team Luigi. And you take a step back and it's actually scary what they're really saying, what they're really endorsing, especially when you consider how they're speaking about Republicans and conservatives at large. There is a dehumanization of the right going on in this country. And look, I don't have the mouth of a saint. I curse like a truck driver. In my, in my personal life, I could make a sailor blush. I have no filter. I'm not saying I'm perfect in this. Nonetheless, when I use words like libtard, which I do use pretty often, I'm not dehumanizing a liberal. I'm calling them stupid. I'm not saying that they're the enemies. I used to have actually an old political mentor named Tom Ogden Benny, who's gone to his eternal rest, may rest in peace. But he used to tell me when I was very young, democrats are not your enemies. They are your adversaries, but they're your countrymen. They're not your enemies. And I remember that to this day when I speak about people. But what commenters are saying on the left is unjustifiable. Kamala Harris said on CNN that she believed Donald Trump was a fascist. Congressman Slalwell made a reference to kicking the out of fascism. AOC said that Trump was a fascist that united racism, bigotry and racist nationalism. Rachel Maddow said on her show that we need to worry about the rise of fascism. Congressman Goldman from New York said he's trying, that Trump was trying to roll over this country as a fascist dictator. Senator Chris Murphy, the day before Charlie Kirk was murdered, said, we are at war right now. And those are responsible left wingers who have to answer to corporate, you know, lawyers who have to answer to sponsorships, who have to answer to voters. George Conway, after Charlie was murdered, compared to him to a young Nazi who was killed in Germany and then used as propaganda. Hassan Piker, who is a twitch streamer, who's a very left famous twitch streamer that the New York Times had this glowing puff piece about. He said that we need to kill those mfers and let streets soak in their red capitalist blood. There's a podcaster or, or, you know, streamer or whatever the hell called destiny. He said afterwards that conservatives have to be afraid to get killed when they go to events. And that says nothing about how the left has said time and time again that the right is guilty of genociding marginalized communities, that they are guilty of supporting genocide in Gaza, that the people will die because the big beautiful bill, or that the trans community is being erased. Does my audience even know that? Currently active right now. This is what the mainstream does not talk about. Currently active right now is a trans cult called the Zizians that is responsible and connected to six murders. It's active today. Many people are saying that there's a rise of transgender murder. Steve Sailor looked this up and he found that while transgender people made up 0.6 or transgender and non binary people made a point, 6% of the population, they do have an overrepresentation of homicides, of mass shootings. Rather, since 2018, while it certainly hasn't been studied enough, there are string of mass murders committed by trans non binary people that the government needs to investigate, that the government needs to come up with an official study of. Because I don't, we don't have the data. There's a lot of rhetoric on the right about this, but there's no. I've been, I trust me when I say this, I searched for hard numbers and they're very, very difficult to come by. And we need federal investigators to look this up because if it is an issue, if it is a trend, it should be discussed. This moment is not the first time that political rhetoric around violence has been amplified to an unhealthy level. Remember when Congressman Gabrielle Giffords was shot by a schizophrenic without a clear political ideology. He was, he had some right wing tendencies. He had some left wing tendencies. He also had saved a constituent letter that she had mailed to him years prior that he became obsessed with. What did the media blame? They blamed Sarah Palin. And I don't want to get completely, you know, I don't want to admonish the right for saying that they've never spoken out of term or that they never brought the dialogue to an unhealthy level. During Obama's presidency, there were some very popular right wingers that were comparing him to the Antichrist. And that is not healthy. I don't want to excuse that kind of, of language. This is different, though. It is being blanketed over all Trump supporters who the. What the big difference is is that the right viewed Obama supporters more or less as useful idiots as young people who didn't experience life yet, but they didn't like him. They had very, very demeaning things to say about him. This is towards. And by the way, one last final point on that. Political violence declined as Obama's presidency continued. Right. For as vitriolic or as unhinged or as unresponsible as the right was during Obama's presidency, political violence declined over time. Political violence has been increasing during Trump's presidency, both the first and then in the post time, the four years between terms and now at this moment. The big difference is social media. And it's not just TikTok or Instagram or memes, right? Things that people are posting about people trying to get fired, people are trying to get other people fired over what they've been saying about Charlie Kirk. Discord, message boards, anonymous groups like that are where people are going to be increasingly radicalized. 2025 is slated to have the most amount of death threats against elected officials ever recorded. According to the capitol police, over 15,000. And this is not just confined to D.C. according to Cornell University, there are 393 counties with one or more instances of political violence or attempted political violence. This is 3 13% of all US counties. Additionally, only 6.1% of all US counties had two or more incidents of political violence, but 2.7% had more than five. That's a lot. That is a lot. It seems like it's very little, but think of the overall where people live and how many people live in such few counties. It's almost impossible to give political motivations behind all these attacks that are happening recently. Right. There are some. The murder of Charlie Kirk Luigi, the assault of Paul Pelosi. Some people are claiming the murder of Minnesota legislators, but the man who murdered them was clearly severely mentally ill. And I'm not saying that, you know, Luigi isn't mentally ill, I'm saying, but severely mentally ill. There are schizophrenics and people with severe mental illness who are clamming on to the Internet and are in the midst of social contagion, who believe that political violence is a force that gives them meaning. The left is calling on this moment to regulate guns. And they say that that is the answer. They're kind of whitewashing Charlie's murder as just being regular gun violence. But that's so, so disgusting and demeaning to who he was and what happened to him and to the family he left behind is not just politics. It's just not gun violence. And gun regulations were much stronger in the 1970s when we had a lot more assaul. There's a problem in the country. If they didn't have a gun they'd use a bomb. If they didn't have a bomb they'd use a knife. They would use something to assault people. And I think that is important in this moment. As far as what we can do, what I can do, what you can do is when the next Democrat, if this is a conservative audience, which most of my audience is conservative, when the next Democrat there will be a Democratic president, you know, at some point in history or a left wing president, things swing back and forth. Not to lose your mind, not to to police your own language, maybe don't share the thing that you know will get the most clicks. And to really look at young people, especially young men in your own family and what they're looking at online. Social media companies need to be held responsible for what is happening. We need, Congress needs to change section 230. These are not just blanket publishers. They have to be responsible over what people are sharing online. It is a radicalization and there will be more copycat killers. And I say as somebody who received death threats in the last year alone and lots of threats in the last year, not just death threats, but threats to my safety. Conservatives are going to increase their reaction because the threat is real. And I don't know what exactly is going to follow. I don't know what laws will be changed, but something will happen. And if there is another assault of another right winger the reaction will be more extreme. I think of even just a week ago when Donald Trump and J.D. vance and a bunch of the cabinet were in a restaurant and protesters broke through the door and started yelling and they were within feet of the President. It is genuinely scary what could happen if the wrong person was at that place at the wrong time. People need to act more responsibly. Cooler heads need to prevail. But social media companies need to hold these people responsible who are radicalizing, who are dehumanizing, who are using violent rhetoric. They need to be demonetized and they need to be taken off social media. Free speech is important but you have to act responsive with it. And these people are absolutely going to get some more people killed if they continue like they are. That's my little thing. Up next. Ask me anything.
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Now it's time for Ask Me Anything. If you want a part of the Ask Me Anything segment, please email me ryanumbers game podcast.com that's Ryan numbers game plural numbers game podcast.com I want to remind my listeners, Thursday is a whole Ask Me Anything podcast. I'm going to do a lot of questions. I have a big backlog and I'm going to get everything that I possibly can, so please email me. I love answering your questions. I love hearing about everything. And by the way, thank you all for the nice emails I got over the 911 segment. I know that came the same day Charlie was murdered and it, you know, 911 kind of fell in the back of everyone's mind, but I really appreciate all the nice messages I received. My mom really, really thought the episode came out very well and she was very proud of it and I'm very proud of it. So thank you all. It means the most to me. So get your questions in. Let me know what you want to do for podcast episodes in the future. I love to talk about them ryan@NumbersGame podcast.com okay, so this comes from Erica from Utah. She's talking about the special election in Iowa. This is the most recent special election where Republicans lost a double digit Trump district and lost the Republican supermajority in Iowa. She says. My understanding on the special election in Iowa is that only about 10000 people voted. Also, the Democratic Party put 30,000 volunteers on the ground to win that election even with not knowing the amount of money spent to win that seat. The math needing 5 times number of voters, voters and, and volunteers can't be translated into a wins in other races. Okay, I understand what you're saying, Erica. Yeah, the Democrats spent a lot of money and a lot of time trying to win that seat. If it was a one off election, I would agree with you. Democrats have been overperforming in special elections on an average in the last, in the last, what is it, seven months since the presidential election. That is a lot. That is the most actually on record. Now part of that not on record, but certainly in the last, I think six election cycle special election cycles. Part of that is, is that as political parties have changed, Democrats have become an older party. They've also become a party that is more obsessed with the news and politics. You could see that in a lot of polling, right? In a lot of polling data there's an overrepresentation of older left wing older Democrats. I'll give you a perfect example, two perfect examples. In Iowa, in the very famous poll that came out right before the election, the Anseller poll where she predicted Kamala Harris would win Iowa, I broke down that data in the cross tabs and Ann Seltzer found that Kamala was going to win older white women who are in, who are large share or evangelical in Iowa by double digits. Now this was clearly nonsense, right? Anyone with a brain would have recognized that this is nonsense. The problem is is that those older voters want to answer a poll. They think about politics at an unhealthy. I don't say unhealthy, but at a level that is higher than the average person, right? It is more than just who do you vote for every two, four years or whatever special is. It is a sport to them. In the New York Times polling in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, why I assumed there was an error in their polling is because those polls had Democrats or had Kamala rather winning senior citizens, especially white senior citizens, by double digits. I think Michigan had had her winning by 20 points and Pennsylvania by 10 points. If my memory serves me right, that was never are going to happen. But those people want to answer the poll, they will call the pollster and say please let me answer the poll. That's, that is what is happening with these special elections as far as voting as well, people who are ample, you know, they amplify all their political opinions. They can't wait to tell you how much they hate Donald Trump. They vote in all these elections. And as the Republican Party has become more, has become a larger share of non college educated voters, a larger share of young voters, they don't vote in all these special elections. So yeah. Did the Democrats spend a lot of money, did they send a lot of door knockers to win this and, and, and to try to break the supermajority? Absolutely they did in this one district in Iowa. But they have been winning across the board, even in places that they haven't spent all that money or they've been overperforming across the board. And a big part of that is, is that high propensity voters with college degrees are increasingly just Democrats. And it's something we need to recognize and we need to figure out a way to make sure Republicans get out and vote in greater frequency if we want to win these elections, especially the midterms. Part of that answer, and this, a lot of Republicans don't like that, but part of the answer is you got these people who can't be counted on to vote on election day. To vote early, you have to use the tools ahead of you. You have to color with every crayon in the box. Early voting is part of that equation. Republicans don't like it, but it is. So until there is no early voting, which there is, and so there's no changing that. But until there, there is changing that, but not, no one's proposing it right now, no serious person's proposing it as far as getting a legislator behind it and the governor to sign it. Until there is no early voting, you have to get people to vote early, especially who you can't count on if it's raining, if the kid's crying, if someone's sick, whatever, you need them to vote early. That's the point of why I mentioned the Iowa election. It's more than Iowa. It's happening in special elections everywhere. So hopefully it doesn't happen for the November elections. 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