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Is all hope lost for Republicans?
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Well,
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maybe not.
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I have one last factor in the midterms to talk about today,
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and I think that could
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be some positive rays of light for Republicans.
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We'll get into that.
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We'll look also at the wild presidential election results out
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of Brazil and see if they have anything to do
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and say about the overall accuracy
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of prediction markets,
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and today's candidate countdown is going to encompass an entire group.
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Mostly of psychopaths,
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we'll get into that
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as well.
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More and so much more,
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honestly,
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uh,
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coming up on this episode of Predictable with Sue.
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Thanks for hanging out with us and join us at predictableshow.com.
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Welcome to Predictable with Stu.
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I don't know if my eyes are just getting worse
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at this point,
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or,
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uh,
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it's just that I've been staring constantly at screens,
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uh,
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for months now,
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getting ready for this election,
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which is only,
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uh,
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8 days away.
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Um,
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I want you to join us on YouTube.
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I was looking at some numbers today,
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something like 70% of the people who watch the show
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are not subscribers to the channel.
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Um,
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so I would love for you to become a subscriber of the channel.
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It would mean a lot to us and help us grow.
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And help us have,
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you know,
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quality
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prediction market
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content because
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honestly,
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there's some stuff out there that's good,
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some stuff that's not so good,
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uh,
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but this is a growing,
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uh,
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space right now and,
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uh,
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it would be great if you could help us
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make this into a,
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uh,
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an even bigger operation with even more research and
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all the other things that we wanna do.
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Uh,
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so help us out,
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go to youtube.com/atpredictableshow,
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follow the channel,
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click the bell for notifications,
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do all the things that please the algorithm robots.
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Because if you don't,
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you know what robots do in every movie.
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They eventually turn on you and kill you.
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So if you want to be murdered by a robot,
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that's fine,
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or go to YouTube.com/atpredictableshow,
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just a recommendation.
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8 days until the midterm elections.
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We are here,
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um,
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we have,
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I,
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I wanted you to know,
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um,
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we're gonna be doing a live stream
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on election night
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that is going to encompass the
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entire night from like the beginning when polls are just starting to close
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all the way through
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till
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I would say every seat is called,
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but that's not true because Alaska probably won't be called
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for a long time and California will be counting,
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you know,
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ballots in 2035.
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So it won't be every,
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every seat,
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but
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as many as we can and hopefully at least
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to figure out whether there's gonna be control of the House and the Senate,
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any big races,
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any opportunities that we can come up with on prediction markets
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as well.
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That's what we'll be looking for and we will be on
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November 3rd for hours and hours and hours and hours.
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Hopefully my stupid voice holds up.
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Cause sometimes it doesn't like that.
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Uh,
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but you know what?
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Drugs.
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OK?
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If it gets difficult for me,
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I will just do illicit drugs,
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and then the show will get much more exciting.
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We have early voting going on in 43 states right now.
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43 states.
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And here's the,
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this is the,
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you know,
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we give you the schedule update all the time.
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Who's left?
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Washington DC October 26th,
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Oklahoma,
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October 28th,
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Kentucky,
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October 29th,
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and that's the whole list.
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that's it.
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We're up to what,
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so 45 states.
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There's a few states that don't have early voting.
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I remember,
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when we were having this Georgia controversy when,
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when everyone was saying
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that Georgia's laws were going to ruin democracy and
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then they had more people voting than ever before.
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we all realized that,
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hey,
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there's a bunch of left-wing states that don't have early voting at all.
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They don't seem to have any problem with it whatsoever.
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very strange,
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arguments being made on both sides.
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But I wanna kind of look at where we are,
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as we're 8 days away from the election.
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What does control look like?
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What do these races look like?
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Can you believe the media?
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Can you believe the polls?
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There's a couple of different factors here.
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wanna be honest with you,
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and I,
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I've been honest with you this entire time.
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I get bored with the whole walking your party line thing that a lot of people wanna do.
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a lot of people wanna root for something and tell you it's gonna come true,
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and frankly,
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I don't like doing that.
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It doesn't,
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it's not interesting to me.
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I like to look for the rays of sunshine.
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There's nothing wrong with that.
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if you happen to be a Republican or conservative,
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it's been kind of cloudy weather,
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right?
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you can say you don't believe the polls,
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you can say you don't believe prediction markets,
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you can say you don't believe the news.
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All that's totally uh up to you.
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One thing that is believable though,
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is where Republicans are putting their money.
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Republicans are putting their money in states like Mississippi.
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South Carolina,
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Nebraska,
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Kansas,
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super PACs,
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all that stuff.
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there's really no money going into those races at this point.
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because that's what the Republicans are seeing now.
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Republicans
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have been known at times for their incompetence.
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right?
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Maybe they're overstating the doom level here
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and they're just playing defense and saying,
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let's just not lose all these states,
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we'll see what happens.
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and they could just be wrong.
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and I think there are some
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reasons to believe that things have improved recently
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for Republicans.
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I wanna go through some of that data with you.
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we'll start here with YouGov.
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YouGov is a pollster,
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been around for a long time.
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We featured them before,
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and I wanna make sure you understand that we featured them about a month ago.
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The reason I want to tell you about that is because we featured them in the light of
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really negative results for conservatives and Republicans.
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when they turned on their likely voter screen,
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it was so negative for,
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it seemed almost unbelievable.
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Like it would be worse than any election
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in a very,
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very long time for either party.
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Here's their headline today.
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Are Republicans catching up
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in the race
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for Congress?
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There is some
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evidence for this.
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some bounce back in states like Texas,
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in states like Iowa,
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in states,
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strength in states like Florida continuing.
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there are some bright spots for,
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the red parts of the map.
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I wanna go through some of this data to show you
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some indications of this.
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there are indications
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of it if you,
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you,
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you gotta squint maybe a little bit sometimes,
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and it doesn't mean that we're going from
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bad news or horrible news to good news.
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That's not what this data is showing.
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What it's showing is
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horrible news to less bad news.
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you're either going to have a very bad year
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for Republicans or a very bad year for polls.
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Those are the two options.
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Republicans did well.
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polling is pretty much saying
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really bad things
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prediction markets are echoing much of that sentiment.
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However,
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We have some evidence that that is reversing at least to some level,
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and I wanna show you this.
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This is an important concept to understand.
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As you are leading up to an election,
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most pollsters
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will ask very broad categories of people,
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sometimes even adults.
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I never like a poll about adults.
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Adults,
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uh,
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and you might say,
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well,
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what do you want a poll of kids?
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No.
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What I want is a poll of registered voters at least.
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Adults means anybody,
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they're not even registered to vote.
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And so at that point they're very unreliable as to
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whether they would go to the polls or not.
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As we all know,
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a lot of people don't.
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Um,
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so registered voters is that first,
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that,
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you know,
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you have adults and then you have the first kind of,
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uh,
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hurdle to clear is,
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are you registered to vote?
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If you are,
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you're put into a lot of these polls.
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If you're not,
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a lot of times you're just kind of tossed to the side.
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Now,
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it goes farther than that,
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as you get closer to the election.
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They start putting on likely voter screens.
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Likely,
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I've talked about this before,
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but if you missed those shows,
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likely voter screens are basically
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questions to get a little bit more invasive
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to try to understand whether you're actually gonna vote or not.
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Sometimes it's as simple as,
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are you sure you're gonna vote?
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And if you say,
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if you say,
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well,
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well,
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probably,
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you might not clear that likely voter
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category.
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If you say,
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uh,
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if they ask you,
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hey,
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have you voted in the last 5 elections?
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How many of the last 5?
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And you say,
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oh,
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all 5,
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I always vote.
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You're much more likely to vote in this upcoming one.
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If you said,
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well,
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I've never voted before and I'm 42 years old,
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and,
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uh,
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and I'm gonna,
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but I'm gonna turn out this time,
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you're treated as a less likely voter.
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All that makes kind of intuitive sense.
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Um,
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YouGov does this in an interesting way.
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They have multiple different screens for this.
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They have registered voters,
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they have a likely voter screen,
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and then they have a very strict
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likely voter screen,
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which is like only people they're pretty much are sure are going to vote.
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This is what their pollings look like over the past month and a half or so.
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Um,
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and what you see here,
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starting in the beginning of September
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till today,
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is
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a,
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a rise in the Democratic lead.
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The strictest screen when we featured this,
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I think this was the moment we featured this poll.
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We're talking about the best case scenario for Democrats at that time
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was,
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uh,
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on September 20th,
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that was a + 14 in the generic ballot.
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Again,
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for those,
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uh,
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people who have lives,
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a generic ballot
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is basically,
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hey,
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you're gonna vote for your local Democrat or Republican,
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and you can take,
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you can kind of get a sense of the climate of a given election.
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When you measure generic ballot,
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generic ballot is seen as one of the best,
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um,
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predictors of what's going to come up in the election,
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and you see
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that's a very strict screen.
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Only the most likely voters get
there,
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a + 14.
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At the same time that that was going on,
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uh,
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Democrats were a 10
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when it comes to the what they call a loose screen.
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This is the normal likely voter screen,
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and then the registered voters,
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they were a plus,
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let's say 7.
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So,
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if you're,
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you know,
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the,
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the less likely you are to vote,
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the more Republican you were
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in all of these,
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uh,
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uh,
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screens because
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Republicans are not as passionate this time around.
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Uh,
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Democrats are much more,
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uh,
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showing much more energy in this election,
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and that is echoed in almost every single poll I've seen.
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But as you see,
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as we go from September 20th on,
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we see a a considerable decrease in all of these categories.
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Uh,
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if you're listening on podcast,
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I'll give you the sense of this.
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On September 20th,
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the strictest screen was a + 14 for Democrats.
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It then dropped to a +13,
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a +12,
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a +11,
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and now down to a +9.
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So it's gone from 14 to 9.
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It's a 5 point swing.
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And as far as a loose screen,
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this is the register normal likely voter screen.
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It has gone from a 10 for Democrats to a +7,
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so a 3-point swing.
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And for,
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uh,
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in the just registered voters,
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you've seen a drop from about 0.
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+7 for Democrats to +,
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uh,
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say 52 points.
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So.
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Less drop among uh registered voters than likely voters.
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Um,
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but the point here
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is that
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people who,
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what you're seeing here is a process we
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predicted
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on this program,
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which is,
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as you get closer to a race,
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as you come out of Labor Day,
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as you get out of the summer stuff,
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your kids go back to school,
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you start focusing on the election again,
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you start seeing $100 million of ads.
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All of a sudden,
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you go from,
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I don't really care about this election to,
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you know what,
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I actually kinda do care about this election.
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And now I am gonna make sure I get out and vote.
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You may have said in September,
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uh,
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I'm not that passionate.
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Now you are passionate,
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right?
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That's why they run these ads,
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to get you out of the house.
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So
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that is what's happening with this data.
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We see a,
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a,
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a similar thing happening in
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the propensity of people who are very likely,
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uh,
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that they will definitely vote.
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Again,
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YouGov data here.
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If you look at September 20th,
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you see a situation where 80,
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let's see,
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85%
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of Democrats said they were sure to vote
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that has risen to 87%.
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It almost gets higher.
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Republicans have seen a much more dramatic,
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uh,
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gain there.
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They were at 70% and have risen all the way to 80%.
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So they have closed the gap from about 15 points
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to 7
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in that time period of about a month.
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That
is very good news for,
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uh,
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Republicans and Republican candidates if this holds true.
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Independents have been up a little bit,
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but mostly flat,
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and you'd see them bounce around a little bit more than the parties,
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but what you saw was a real depression around September 20th
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and a rise
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to,
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uh,
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to 80% now for.
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Republicans,
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you'd expect that to rise.
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This is October 18th data,
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uh,
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so it's a week old,
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but you'd expect that to rise each week
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and probably that gap close a little bit more as we get closer and closer and closer.
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Now I put that in perspective,
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again,
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I,
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and I wanna make sure I,
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I don't want to come off as like some,
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you know,
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uh,
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hey,
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I'm trying to mislead you because I want one side to win.
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It's important for me,
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for you to win on prediction markets.
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It's important for me to,
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you know,
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for,
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for my candidates to win.
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I,
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I want that to happen.
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But what I want to use this form for is to tell you the truth.
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Um,
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and what the truth here
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is,
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uh,
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is that while
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there is a narrowing,
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the narrowing doesn't mean
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you're gonna see massive gains for Republicans in the House and Senate.
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I don't think that's going to.
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Happen at all.
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This is a predict this is a,
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uh,
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a kind of
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putting this in context sort of moment here.
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Um,
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this is likely voters,
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uh,
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which are now at +9 for Democrats.
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This is compared to,
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to 2018.
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Why 2018?
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2018 is a really crap,
564
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crappy year for Republicans,
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and the fact is the line for this year,
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it has been worse the entire time
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than 2018,
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according to YouGov data.
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Now YouGov is one pollster.
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We,
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we'll give you every bit of a disclaimer,
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but you know the disclaimers,
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I don't wanna bore you with them
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all,
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but we've
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said them a million times.
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The bottom line here
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is that even at,
579
00:13:54.450 --> 00:13:56.950
even with this improvement that you can see on this chart,
580
00:13:57.479 --> 00:13:57.840
um,
581
00:13:58.049 --> 00:14:00.150
which echoes an improvement from 2018,
582
00:14:00.770 --> 00:14:01.929
it's still worse.
583
00:14:02.260 --> 00:14:03.169
That it was
584
00:14:03.289 --> 00:14:05.229
in 2018 at least so far.
585
00:14:05.330 --> 00:14:07.500
We will see if that continues as we go forward.
586
00:14:07.570 --> 00:14:10.880
Let's make a note to check in on that YouGov uh data as it improves,
587
00:14:10.890 --> 00:14:11.090
Adam,
588
00:14:11.210 --> 00:14:11.510
because,
589
00:14:11.890 --> 00:14:12.010
uh,
590
00:14:12.049 --> 00:14:12.750
just to kind of keep our,
591
00:14:12.809 --> 00:14:13.929
our heads here,
592
00:14:13.969 --> 00:14:15.390
I wanna make sure we understand things
593
00:14:15.690 --> 00:14:16.030
now.
594
00:14:16.289 --> 00:14:17.109
Another part of this
595
00:14:17.210 --> 00:14:18.239
are undecided voters,
596
00:14:18.320 --> 00:14:20.710
and there still are a lot of undecided voters out there.
597
00:14:21.489 --> 00:14:21.890
You might say,
598
00:14:21.969 --> 00:14:22.049
well,
599
00:14:22.090 --> 00:14:23.090
I had my mind made up in,
600
00:14:23.159 --> 00:14:23.510
you know,
601
00:14:23.719 --> 00:14:24.729
1984.
602
00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:25.239
Uh,
603
00:14:25.409 --> 00:14:25.799
but
604
00:14:26.049 --> 00:14:26.530
right now,
605
00:14:26.650 --> 00:14:28.210
people are really making their minds up,
606
00:14:28.289 --> 00:14:29.799
and it's a small percentage of the population,
607
00:14:29.849 --> 00:14:30.729
but it's an important one.
608
00:14:31.130 --> 00:14:32.169
Matthew Iglesias wrote this,
609
00:14:32.210 --> 00:14:34.049
and I thought this was an interesting way of,
610
00:14:34.130 -->
00:14:35.130
of looking at this.
611
00:14:35.479 --> 00:14:35.729
Um,
612
00:14:35.969 --> 00:14:36.090
again,
613
00:14:36.169 --> 00:14:36.729
he's on the left,
614
00:14:36.809 --> 00:14:39.380
he's probably thinking this is a very bad outcome,
615
00:14:39.659 --> 00:14:39.770
uh,
616
00:14:39.880 --> 00:14:42.289
but I think it's an interesting way to look at this,
617
00:14:42.409 --> 00:14:42.530
and,
618
00:14:42.640 --> 00:14:43.750
and most of this is
619
00:14:44.010 --> 00:14:45.080
At least partially true.
620
00:14:45.369 --> 00:14:45.690
Polling,
621
00:14:45.780 --> 00:14:45.929
uh,
622
00:14:46.250 --> 00:14:46.570
for example,
623
00:14:46.650 --> 00:14:48.070
this is Kansas Senate.
624
00:14:48.369 --> 00:14:50.190
Polling has Hamilton up by 1 point
625
00:14:50.489 --> 00:14:53.039
in a context where there are 10% who are still undecided,
626
00:14:53.049 --> 00:14:54.390
and almost all of them
627
00:14:54.530 --> 00:14:55.250
are going to be Trump,
628
00:14:55.369 --> 00:14:55.530
Trump,
629
00:14:55.630 --> 00:14:56.130
Trump voters,
630
00:14:56.210 --> 00:14:57.729
meaning they voted for Trump in 2016,
631
00:14:57.809 --> 00:14:58.289
2020,
632
00:14:58.359 --> 00:14:59.359
and 2024.
633
00:14:59.690 --> 00:15:01.369
So you have this group of undecided voters that
634
00:15:01.369 --> 00:15:02.929
are gonna go one way or the other likely.
635
00:15:04.030 --> 00:15:05.140
Most of those people are,
636
00:15:05.219 --> 00:15:07.400
have been Trump supporters this entire time.
637
00:15:07.809 --> 00:15:08.219
Should we,
638
00:15:08.340 --> 00:15:10.190
shouldn't we expect this to be a GOP?
639
00:15:10.619 --> 00:15:10.729
When?
640
00:15:11.369 --> 00:15:12.099
Conceptually speaking,
641
00:15:12.179 --> 00:15:15.859
is it a polling error if these late deciders break for Hamilton?
642
00:15:16.140 --> 00:15:17.559
There's a good case to be made here.
643
00:15:17.780 --> 00:15:18.840
If you voted for Trump
644
00:15:19.059 --> 00:15:20.010
in 2016,
645
00:15:20.260 --> 00:15:21.969
you voted for Trump in 2020,
646
00:15:22.119 --> 00:15:24.039
you voted for Trump in 2024,
647
00:15:24.289 --> 00:15:25.919
are you so upset
648
00:15:26.179 --> 00:15:27.919
with your previous vote from
649
00:15:28.059 --> 00:15:28.700
not that long ago,
650
00:15:28.859 --> 00:15:29.559
two years ago.
651
00:15:30.080 --> 00:15:32.500
That you think things have gone so terribly
652
00:15:32.719 --> 00:15:35.030
that you're now looking for a left-wing candidate,
653
00:15:35.080 --> 00:15:35.869
an Adam Hamilton,
654
00:15:35.919 --> 00:15:37.380
a James Tallarico,
655
00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:38.039
uh,
656
00:15:38.119 --> 00:15:38.479
you know,
657
00:15:38.599 --> 00:15:39.049
uh,
658
00:15:39.320 --> 00:15:39.979
Scott Colom
659
00:15:40.679 --> 00:15:41.359
in Mississippi.
660
00:15:42.030 --> 00:15:42.440
One of these,
661
00:15:42.500 --> 00:15:44.440
are you really gonna go that far?
662
00:15:46.369 --> 00:15:48.630
It doesn't feel intuitive that that would be true.
663
00:15:49.450 --> 00:15:50.549
Meaning that if,
664
00:15:50.640 --> 00:15:51.289
if they can,
665
00:15:51.369 --> 00:15:54.799
if conservatives can win a majority of those undecided votes,
666
00:15:54.969 --> 00:15:57.770
they're gonna win a lot of these toss-up races in the Senate.
667
00:15:58.330 --> 00:15:58.799
Um,
668
00:15:59.059 --> 00:16:00.500
we have some more information on this.
669
00:16:00.580 --> 00:16:01.700
This is from Strength in Numbers,
670
00:16:01.739 --> 00:16:02.039
which,
671
00:16:02.299 --> 00:16:02.500
uh,
672
00:16:02.659 --> 00:16:02.820
they,
673
00:16:02.900 --> 00:16:03.419
they asked the question,
674
00:16:03.500 --> 00:16:05.289
who's already voted in 2026 midterms,
675
00:16:05.340 --> 00:16:06.049
who's undecided,
676
00:16:06.059 --> 00:16:07.090
and how might they vote?
677
00:16:07.270 --> 00:16:07.510
Now,
678
00:16:07.770 --> 00:16:08.460
Strength in numbers is,
679
00:16:08.580 --> 00:16:08.700
you know,
680
00:16:08.739 --> 00:16:09.299
a good pollster.
681
00:16:09.340 --> 00:16:09.539
They,
682
00:16:09.659 --> 00:16:11.039
they are a legitimate
683
00:16:11.299 --> 00:16:11.719
outfit.
684
00:16:11.900 --> 00:16:12.979
They do tend to lean,
685
00:16:13.059 --> 00:16:13.219
uh,
686
00:16:13.299 --> 00:16:15.880
I would say their data tends to lean a little bit more left,
687
00:16:16.179 --> 00:16:16.340
um,
688
00:16:16.500 --> 00:16:16.840
but
689
00:16:17.179 --> 00:16:17.859
to give you a percent,
690
00:16:17.869 --> 00:16:18.260
uh,
691
00:16:18.270 --> 00:16:20.260
a kind of a perception as to who is undecided,
692
00:16:20.340 --> 00:16:22.340
they did some polling on that data or have some,
693
00:16:22.419 --> 00:16:22.609
uh,
694
00:16:22.619 --> 00:16:23.549
breakdowns of that data.
695
00:16:23.820 --> 00:16:24.239
Um,
696
00:16:24.700 --> 00:16:25.210
first of all,
697
00:16:25.400 --> 00:16:27.599
the people who are undecided are not big Trump fans right now.
698
00:16:28.580 --> 00:16:29.250
They have,
699
00:16:29.289 --> 00:16:29.570
uh,
700
00:16:29.580 --> 00:16:31.159
decided that Trump is not doing a good job.
701
00:16:31.260 --> 00:16:31.979
What they say here,
702
00:16:32.099 --> 00:16:32.619
this is the,
703
00:16:32.659 --> 00:16:32.969
uh,
704
00:16:32.979 --> 00:16:33.359
group,
705
00:16:33.799 --> 00:16:34.719
they're massively,
706
00:16:34.729 --> 00:16:35.159
uh,
707
00:16:35.169 --> 00:16:35.469
uh,
708
00:16:35.479 --> 00:16:35.489
uh,
709
00:16:35.500 --> 00:16:36.659
disapproving of Donald Trump,
710
00:16:36.809 --> 00:16:38.780
69 to 14 is that number.
711
00:16:39.090 --> 00:16:40.890
49% strongly disapprove,
712
00:16:41.020 --> 00:16:43.320
20% somewhat disapproves,
713
00:16:43.460 --> 00:16:44.520
only 12%,
714
00:16:44.750 --> 00:16:45.049
uh,
715
00:16:45.219 --> 00:16:45.739
somewhat approve,
716
00:16:45.780 --> 00:16:46.640
and 2%
717
00:16:46.780 --> 00:16:47.349
strongly disapprove.
718
00:16:47.580
--> 00:16:49.400
That now that makes some sense intuitively because.
719
00:16:49.890 --> 00:16:50.289
You,
720
00:16:50.409 --> 00:16:53.190
you would think the people who really like Trump and approve of them
721
00:16:53.450 --> 00:16:54.929
probably aren't undecided,
722
00:16:55.090 --> 00:16:55.250
right?
723
00:16:55.450 --> 00:16:56.130
Those people are already,
724
00:16:56.250 --> 00:16:57.409
have already picked a candidate.
725
00:16:57.690 --> 00:16:58.770
These people are undecided,
726
00:16:58.890 --> 00:17:01.070
probably previously voted for Trump at least once,
727
00:17:01.369 --> 00:17:02.010
and now we're saying,
728
00:17:02.119 --> 00:17:02.450
wait a minute,
729
00:17:02.489 --> 00:17:03.369
I'm not as happy as I,
730
00:17:03.409 --> 00:17:04.170
as I was.
731
00:17:04.410 --> 00:17:04.949
However,
732
00:17:05.368 --> 00:17:05.890
the people,
733
00:17:05.969 --> 00:17:06.910
as you see here,
734
00:17:07.719 --> 00:17:07.858
Uh,
735
00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:08.900
2 to 1 ratio,
736
00:17:09.358 --> 00:17:10.368
Trump versus Harris,
737
00:17:10.589 --> 00:17:11.319
voted for Trump.
738
00:17:11.430 --> 00:17:12.719
So these are mostly people,
739
00:17:12.880 --> 00:17:13.239
mostly,
740
00:17:13.300 --> 00:17:13.979
not all,
741
00:17:14.280 --> 00:17:14.439
uh,
742
00:17:14.520 --> 00:17:15.000
but the,
743
00:17:15.079 --> 00:17:15.348
the,
744
00:17:15.400 --> 00:17:17.140
the plurality of people here,
745
00:17:17.579 --> 00:17:17.880
um,
746
00:17:18.020 --> 00:17:18.310
uh,
747
00:17:18.479 --> 00:17:20.160
that are assigned to a candidate
748
00:17:20.358 --> 00:17:21.729
are people who are,
749
00:17:21.890 --> 00:17:22.880
who voted for Donald Trump.
750
00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:25.910
So they have at least familiarity of voting Republican before,
751
00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:28.348
lean Republican at one point in their lives,
752
00:17:28.680 --> 00:17:28.760
uh,
753
00:17:28.829 --> 00:17:30.640
at least leaning towards MAGA or Trump.
754
00:17:31.239 --> 00:17:31.400
They,
755
00:17:31.479 --> 00:17:32.630
28% of those people,
756
00:17:32.790 --> 00:17:34.290
15% voted for Harris,
757
00:17:34.560 --> 00:17:34.709
uh,
758
00:17:34.760 --> 00:17:37.479
third party candidates was 18% and then didn't vote at all,
759
00:17:37.520 --> 00:17:38.380
38%.
760
00:17:38.479 --> 00:17:38.760
Again,
761
00:17:38.959 --> 00:17:40.040
will those people come in?
762
00:17:40.280 --> 00:17:40.760
If they do,
763
00:17:40.869 --> 00:17:43.010
they will likely go toward the Democrat,
764
00:17:43.319 --> 00:17:43.819
but
765
00:17:44.280 --> 00:17:45.959
people who didn't vote in 2024,
766
00:17:46.069 --> 00:17:47.420
a presidential year,
767
00:17:47.439 --> 00:17:50.719
are really unlikely to actually get to the polls.
768
00:17:51.099 --> 00:17:53.219
If you didn't bother to vote in 2024,
769
00:17:53.400 --> 00:17:55.890
in a highly contested presidential election
770
00:17:56.119 --> 00:17:57.199
that included Donald Trump,
771
00:17:57.280 --> 00:17:57.520
one of them,
772
00:17:57.599 --> 00:17:58.000
you know.
773
00:17:58.400 --> 00:17:59.119
Whether you like him or not,
774
00:17:59.170 --> 00:18:00.209
either you love him or you hate him,
775
00:18:00.250 --> 00:18:00.609
usually,
776
00:18:00.930 --> 00:18:02.069
very polarizing guy.
777
00:18:03.550 --> 00:18:06.760
You could see why people would be skeptical that those people would
778
00:18:06.760 --> 00:18:10.339
actually show up to vote for Adam Hamilton or Roger Marshall,
779
00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:10.530
right?
780
00:18:10.589 --> 00:18:11.250
Like it's just
781
00:18:11.410 --> 00:18:13.229
the passion levels are usually lower on this,
782
00:18:13.349 --> 00:18:14.369
in those situations.
783
00:18:14.670 --> 00:18:15.089
Um,
784
00:18:15.349 --> 00:18:15.469
now,
785
00:18:15.550 --> 00:18:16.209
I am
786
00:18:16.979 --> 00:18:17.550
a person,
787
00:18:17.589 --> 00:18:18.770
to be honest with you,
788
00:18:19.150 --> 00:18:20.709
and there are a lot of,
789
00:18:20.790 --> 00:18:21.369
uh,
790
00:18:21.469 --> 00:18:21.969
of
791
00:18:22.199 --> 00:18:25.869
early voting tea leaf readers who will tell you different,
792
00:18:25.949 --> 00:18:26.339
uh,
793
00:18:26.589 --> 00:18:27.150
things than this.
794
00:18:27.229 --> 00:18:30.089
I am a person who does not take all that much
795
00:18:30.270 --> 00:18:31.030
from early vote.
796
00:18:32.180 --> 00:18:34.520
There are some pretty smart arguments to be made
797
00:18:34.520 --> 00:18:36.900
that if you look at lower propensity voters,
798
00:18:37.099 --> 00:18:37.219
again,
799
00:18:37.380 --> 00:18:38.500
voters who don't typically vote,
800
00:18:38.579 --> 00:18:40.770
if you can lock those people in and isolate them,
801
00:18:41.099 --> 00:18:42.579
you can get something out of those guys.
802
00:18:42.660 --> 00:18:42.949
But again,
803
00:18:43.060 --> 00:18:45.099
you're talking about a tiny fraction of the audience,
804
00:18:45.140 --> 00:18:45.439
and
805
00:18:45.699 --> 00:18:46.800
I think a lot of times
806
00:18:46.989 --> 00:18:47.369
you get,
807
00:18:47.380 --> 00:18:47.660
uh,
808
00:18:47.670 --> 00:18:48.010
uh,
809
00:18:48.050 --> 00:18:49.369
an overestimation of that.
810
00:18:49.420 --> 00:18:50.359
I find that
811
00:18:50.469 --> 00:18:54.479
early voting data tends to mislead more than it leads correctly.
812
00:18:54.939 --> 00:18:55.180
Um,
813
00:18:55.300 --> 00:18:56.640
so that is my opinion on that.
814
00:18:56.739 --> 00:18:58.410
I wanna show you some of that data anyway,
815
00:18:58.660 --> 00:18:59.739
in case you happen to be,
816
00:18:59.780 --> 00:19:00.130
uh,
817
00:19:00.300 --> 00:19:01.500
in case you happen to disagree.
818
00:19:01.920 --> 00:19:03.130
This is again from,
819
00:19:03.140 --> 00:19:04.099
uh,
820
00:19:04.109 --> 00:19:04.900
Strength in numbers.
821
00:19:05.319 --> 00:19:05.680
Um,
822
00:19:06.849 --> 00:19:08.170
What we normally see
823
00:19:08.530
--> 00:19:09.290
in early dating,
824
00:19:09.390 --> 00:19:09.520
uh,
825
00:19:09.569 --> 00:19:11.770
early voting data is that Democrats get out early.
826
00:19:11.930 --> 00:19:12.800
We all kind of know that,
827
00:19:12.859 --> 00:19:13.130
right?
828
00:19:13.569 --> 00:19:14.750
Democrats vote early
829
00:19:15.050 --> 00:19:15.869
more often
830
00:19:16.010 --> 00:19:16.969
than Republicans do,
831
00:19:17.030 --> 00:19:18.969
and we see that in every single election with one,
832
00:19:19.329 --> 00:19:20.709
actually kind of interesting exception
833
00:19:21.609 --> 00:19:22.589
of 2024.
834
00:19:23.130 --> 00:19:23.239
But,
835
00:19:23.290 --> 00:19:23.479
uh,
836
00:19:23.489 --> 00:19:24.479
looking at the previous elections,
837
00:19:24.489 --> 00:19:24.930
you see,
838
00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:25.119
uh,
839
00:19:25.150 --> 00:19:25.709
uh,
840
00:19:25.770 --> 00:19:26.199
anywhere from,
841
00:19:26.209 --> 00:19:26.630
uh,
842
00:19:26.680 --> 00:19:27.290
8
843
00:19:27.770 --> 00:19:29.430
to 10 point
844
00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:30.400
move,
845
00:19:30.729 --> 00:19:32.189
maybe 5 to 10 point move
846
00:19:32.609 --> 00:19:33.030
from,
847
00:19:33.130 --> 00:19:33.530
uh,
848
00:19:34.150 --> 00:19:34.160
when,
849
00:19:34.209 --> 00:19:34.410
you know,
850
00:19:34.530 --> 00:19:35.359
in early ballots,
851
00:19:35.530 --> 00:19:36.369
more Democratic.
852
00:19:36.790 --> 00:19:37.209
Um,
853
00:19:37.430 --> 00:19:40.310
day of the final electorate being much more Republican.
854
00:19:40.589 --> 00:19:42.010
So you see a big move
855
00:19:42.280 --> 00:19:42.750
from,
856
00:19:42.869 --> 00:19:43.050
uh,
857
00:19:43.069 --> 00:19:44.849
the early voting being more Democratic,
858
00:19:45.109 --> 00:19:47.310
the day of voting being much more Republican,
859
00:19:47.630 --> 00:19:48.380
the average of that,
860
00:19:48.390 --> 00:19:49.760
the final electorate being these,
861
00:19:49.770 --> 00:19:50.280
uh,
862
00:19:50.510 --> 00:19:51.819
dots that are not colored in.
863
00:19:52.020 --> 00:19:52.819
In 2022,
864
00:19:52.859 --> 00:19:54.849
it was a very slight lean toward Republicans.
865
00:19:54.900 --> 00:19:55.420
2024,
866
00:19:55.459 --> 00:19:57.160
a little bit more toward Republicans
867
00:19:57.339 --> 00:19:58.319
with the final vote,
868
00:19:58.660 --> 00:19:58.959
but
869
00:19:59.099 --> 00:19:59.400
that,
870
00:19:59.459 --> 00:20:00.099
uh,
871
00:20:00.119 --> 00:20:00.939
election data,
872
00:20:01.020 --> 00:20:01.329
uh,
873
00:20:01.339 --> 00:20:03.199
looking back to 2018
874
00:20:03.540 --> 00:20:05.839
shows that usually Democrats get out early,
875
00:20:06.030 --> 00:20:06.290
um,
876
00:20:06.420 --> 00:20:08.670
and this is broken down in multiple different ways.
877
00:20:08.780 --> 00:20:10.140
Voted in both previous generals.
878
00:20:10.180 --> 00:20:11.000
They go on to,
879
00:20:11.260 --> 00:20:13.209
if you haven't voted at all or you haven't,
880
00:20:13.260 --> 00:20:13.410
uh,
881
00:20:13.530 --> 00:20:13.619
you know,
882
00:20:13.819 --> 00:20:15.020
go to the next slide if you would.
883
00:20:15.369 --> 00:20:15.760
Um,
884
00:20:15.810 --> 00:20:19.400
these are voted in one out of two previous general elections and two out of two.
885
00:20:19.640 --> 00:20:21.579
What you see generally speaking though,
886
00:20:21.770 --> 00:20:22.869
is the same story
887
00:20:23.050 --> 00:20:24.430
in almost every case,
888
00:20:24.689 --> 00:20:26.369
with the exception of 2024,
889
00:20:26.489 --> 00:20:27.589
which is interesting.
890
00:20:27.810 --> 00:20:28.760
In 2024,
891
00:20:28.810 --> 00:20:30.530
there really wasn't that sort of change.
892
00:20:30.650 --> 00:20:31.069
So,
893
00:20:31.290 --> 00:20:32.089
is that a situation,
894
00:20:32.130 --> 00:20:32.869
and this could be,
895
00:20:32.969 --> 00:20:34.430
this is a plausible theory.
896
00:20:35.030 --> 00:20:35.849
Donald Trump,
897
00:20:36.180 --> 00:20:36.339
uh,
898
00:20:36.430 --> 00:20:37.869
in 2016,
899
00:20:37.910 --> 00:20:39.449
but really more in 2020,
900
00:20:39.510 --> 00:20:41.530
encouraged Republican voters
901
00:20:41.910 --> 00:20:43.540
to not vote early,
902
00:20:43.829 --> 00:20:44.910
to not vote by mail.
903
00:20:45.010 --> 00:20:45.510
It's corrupt,
904
00:20:45.589 --> 00:20:46.369
it's a corrupt system.
905
00:20:46.469 --> 00:20:46.660
It's,
906
00:20:46.709 --> 00:20:47.050
you know,
907
00:20:47.270 --> 00:20:47.829
the only state,
908
00:20:47.839 --> 00:20:48.109
honestly,
909
00:20:48.189 --> 00:20:50.829
you go back to 2020 where he encouraged it was Florida,
910
00:20:50.839 --> 00:20:53.709
and it was basically his best performing state of the election.
911
00:20:54.199 --> 00:20:54.349
Uh,
912
00:20:54.400 --> 00:20:55.420
I don't think that's a coincidence.
913
00:20:55.750 --> 00:20:55.930
Um,
914
00:20:56.079 --> 00:20:56.640
they just,
915
00:20:56.869 --> 00:20:57.979
they saw that same data,
916
00:20:58.119 --> 00:21:00.640
and in 2024 they stopped saying don't vote early,
917
00:21:00.760 --> 00:21:01.280
don't vote in,
918
00:21:01.369 --> 00:21:01.439
in,
919
00:21:01.530 --> 00:21:02.109
in the elections,
920
00:21:02.119 --> 00:21:02.439
and
921
00:21:02.599 --> 00:21:04.900
like you might say like there's fraud in those elections or whatever,
922
00:21:05.199 --> 00:21:05.359
uh,
923
00:21:05.479 --> 00:21:07.180
when it comes to early voting and mail-in voting.
924
00:21:07.239 --> 00:21:07.380
The,
925
00:21:07.390 --> 00:21:07.989
the,
926
00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:08.680
the thing about it,
927
00:21:08.760 --> 00:21:11.060
it's really valuable to campaigns.
928
00:21:11.599 --> 00:21:13.780
Campaigns love when you vote early because
929
00:21:13.959 --> 00:21:15.140
when you vote early,
930
00:21:15.599 --> 00:21:19.540
they can check you off the list and stop using resources to try to get you out to vote.
931
00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:20.680
So they love it.
932
00:21:21.130 --> 00:21:21.849
When you vote early,
933
00:21:22.050 --> 00:21:22.810
if you vote early,
934
00:21:22.930 --> 00:21:24.810
you'll stop getting text messages constantly,
935
00:21:24.930 --> 00:21:25.000
uh,
936
00:21:25.050 --> 00:21:26.349
in a lot of cases because
937
00:21:26.489 --> 00:21:27.479
you get checked off the list.
938
00:21:27.530 --> 00:21:28.930
They see that you voted and then you're,
939
00:21:29.239 --> 00:21:30.869
they don't need to spend any money on you anymore.
940
00:21:31.369 --> 00:21:32.040
They love that.
941
00:21:32.310 --> 00:21:33.989
So now Republicans have been considering,
942
00:21:34.089 --> 00:21:34.390
uh,
943
00:21:34.530 --> 00:21:35.290
they've changed that,
944
00:21:35.329 --> 00:21:35.469
uh,
945
00:21:35.479 --> 00:21:36.050
outlook and said,
946
00:21:36.130 --> 00:21:36.280
look,
947
00:21:36.369 --> 00:21:37.209
just go and vote early.
948
00:21:37.479 --> 00:21:38.969
2024 was the first time they tried that,
949
00:21:39.010 --> 00:21:39.800
and you see that data,
950
00:21:39.890 --> 00:21:40.250
not,
951
00:21:40.489 --> 00:21:41.530
not as much leaning,
952
00:21:41.810 --> 00:21:41.920
uh,
953
00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:44.459
in the Republican way for day of voting.
954
00:21:44.520 --> 00:21:45.790
So that's gonna be interesting to see.
955
00:21:46.819 --> 00:21:48.170
When it comes to prediction markets,
956
00:21:48.589 --> 00:21:50.369
this is all really interesting information.
957
00:21:50.550 --> 00:21:50.890
I
958
00:21:51.349 --> 00:21:52.579
think a lot of the movement lately,
959
00:21:52.630 --> 00:21:53.469
I dove into this,
960
00:21:53.569 --> 00:21:54.060
uh,
961
00:21:54.069 --> 00:21:54.310
deeply,
962
00:21:54.369 --> 00:21:56.250
maybe we'll get into this on another show as well.
963
00:21:56.630 --> 00:21:57.050
Um,
964
00:21:57.349 --> 00:21:58.510
what's moving the markets right now,
965
00:21:58.550 --> 00:22:00.229
it does seem to be early voting,
966
00:22:00.300 --> 00:22:00.500
uh,
967
00:22:00.619 --> 00:22:01.109
voting data,
968
00:22:01.189 --> 00:22:02.349
even more than polling.
969
00:22:02.829 --> 00:22:03.089
Um,
970
00:22:03.359 --> 00:22:04.640
Texas is a good example of this.
971
00:22:04.760 --> 00:22:05.640
In Texas,
972
00:22:06.119 --> 00:22:08.119
the polling for Greg Abbott has been pretty good,
973
00:22:08.339 --> 00:22:10.229
better than previously in the cycle,
974
00:22:10.479 --> 00:22:12.660
and his actual percentages have dropped.
975
00:22:12.880 --> 00:22:13.280
Why?
976
00:22:13.400 --> 00:22:15.459
Early voting data in Texas looks pretty bad
977
00:22:15.760 --> 00:22:16.699
for Republicans.
978
00:22:16.959 --> 00:22:17.839
What do I take out of that?
979
00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:18.520
Not much.
980
00:22:19.540 --> 00:22:20.449
I don't take much out of it,
981
00:22:20.459 --> 00:22:21.540
and I could be wrong on this.
982
00:22:21.579 --> 00:22:24.180
We might find that this is the time where early voting data has
been predictive.
983
00:22:24.459 --> 00:22:26.489
What I've seen about early voting data is it,
984
00:22:26.540 --> 00:22:28.359
it tends to mislead you more
985
00:22:28.489 --> 00:22:29.569
than it leads you in the right direction,
986
00:22:29.579 --> 00:22:30.630
and over and over again,
987
00:22:30.859 --> 00:22:31.099
we've,
988
00:22:31.219 --> 00:22:32.079
we've been told
989
00:22:32.619 --> 00:22:33.780
by early voting data,
990
00:22:33.859 --> 00:22:34.089
uh,
991
00:22:34.260 --> 00:22:36.239
soothsayers what's gonna happen in an election,
992
00:22:36.339 --> 00:22:37.579
and then it doesn't wind up happening.
993
00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:39.959
So I don't really pay much attention to it.
994
00:22:40.160 --> 00:22:40.270
Uh,
995
00:22:40.319 --> 00:22:41.530
if you have somebody who you really love,
996
00:22:41.599 --> 00:22:41.839
you know,
997
00:22:42.040 --> 00:22:42.319
go ahead,
998
00:22:42.479 --> 00:22:42.599
uh,
999
00:22:42.719 --> 00:22:42.959
you know,
1000
00:22:43.760 --> 00:22:43.969
free,
1001
00:22:44.199 --> 00:22:47.800
feel free to share it on the predictable show.com chats because I'll look
1002
00:22:47.800 --> 00:22:49.979
at the data all day long and some of it is convincing,
1003
00:22:50.280 --> 00:22:50.869
but generally speaking,
1004
00:22:50.920 --> 00:22:51.719
I don't think much about it.
1005
00:22:51.790 --> 00:22:52.160
I was talking,
1006
00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:52.790
uh,
1007
00:22:53.040 --> 00:22:54.540
what's interesting about this is you can use
1008
00:22:54.859 --> 00:22:56.339
prediction markets to do
1009
00:22:56.520 --> 00:22:57.260
different things
1010
00:22:57.430 --> 00:22:57.920
in these moments.
1011
00:22:58.040 --> 00:22:58.160
Yes,
1012
00:22:58.239 --> 00:22:58.599
you can do,
1013
00:22:58.760 --> 00:22:59.959
do them for pure profit,
1014
00:23:00.099 --> 00:23:00.189
uh,
1015
00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:00.819
potential,
1016
00:23:01.160 --> 00:23:03.380
and it also helps deliver a better result,
1017
00:23:03.760 --> 00:23:03.920
uh,
1018
00:23:04.040 --> 00:23:05.959
to the American people when it comes to their information diet.
1019
00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:06.939
I think that's a positive.
1020
00:23:07.859 --> 00:23:08.410
However,
1021
00:23:08.689 --> 00:23:09.969
you can also kind of hedge your life.
1022
00:23:10.099 --> 00:23:11.380
I've talked about hedging your life a lot.
1023
00:23:11.459 --> 00:23:12.479
I do it all the time,
1024
00:23:12.699 --> 00:23:13.089
um,
1025
00:23:13.199 --> 00:23:13.770
uh,
1026
00:23:13.780 --> 00:23:16.810
because I believe if I'm gonna have something that makes my life worse,
1027
00:23:16.859 --> 00:23:17.699
I should get paid for it.
1028
00:23:18.410 --> 00:23:18.770
Um,
1029
00:23:18.849 --> 00:23:19.349
you know,
1030
00:23:19.609 --> 00:23:20.290
I had to work with,
1031
00:23:20.369 --> 00:23:20.619
uh,
1032
00:23:20.760 --> 00:23:21.810
with Jeffy for many,
1033
00:23:21.890 --> 00:23:22.550
many years,
1034
00:23:22.810
--> 00:23:24.050
and I had to be paid for that.
1035
00:23:24.410 --> 00:23:24.530
Uh,
1036
00:23:24.609 --> 00:23:25.930
so you get the sense of,
1037
00:23:26.030 --> 00:23:26.829
of
1038
00:23:27.170 --> 00:23:27.890
when you want,
1039
00:23:28.089 --> 00:23:28.119
uh,
1040
00:23:28.250 --> 00:23:30.109
it's one of the central things that I think about,
1041
00:23:30.449 --> 00:23:31.150
and it goes,
1042
00:23:31.209 --> 00:23:32.089
I was talking to Dave Landau,
1043
00:23:32.209 --> 00:23:32.810
who I do a show with,
1044
00:23:32.880 --> 00:23:33.010
uh,
1045
00:23:33.209 --> 00:23:34.229
Stu and Dave do America,
1046
00:23:34.650 --> 00:23:34.890
um,
1047
00:23:35.050 --> 00:23:35.780
it's on Blaze TV.
1048
00:23:36.010 --> 00:23:36.609
If you haven't seen it,
1049
00:23:36.849 --> 00:23:37.400
I think you'll like it.
1050
00:23:37.410 --> 00:23:37.890
It's funny.
1051
00:23:38.130 --> 00:23:38.630
He's funny.
1052
00:23:38.969 --> 00:23:39.130
Um,
1053
00:23:39.239 --> 00:23:40.520
and so we're doing a,
1054
00:23:40.609 --> 00:23:40.699
a,
1055
00:23:40.770 --> 00:23:42.099
a show about the,
1056
00:23:42.209 --> 00:23:42.829
uh,
1057
00:23:42.930 --> 00:23:43.170
elections,
1058
00:23:43.329 --> 00:23:43.609
and,
1059
00:23:43.650 --> 00:23:43.849
uh,
1060
00:23:43.930 --> 00:23:44.810
we kind of go to the break,
1061
00:23:44.849 --> 00:23:45.209
and he says,
1062
00:23:45.329 --> 00:23:45.410
yeah,
1063
00:23:45.489 --> 00:23:45.640
I've,
1064
00:23:45.810 --> 00:23:46.709
I've got some money on,
1065
00:23:46.770 --> 00:23:46.880
uh,
1066
00:23:47.010 --> 00:23:47.469
Calci.
1067
00:23:48.280 --> 00:23:49.369
On El Sayed to win.
1068
00:23:49.449 --> 00:23:50.170
He lives in Michigan.
1069
00:23:50.290 --> 00:23:50.689
He's saying,
1070
00:23:50.770 --> 00:23:50.890
I,
1071
00:23:50.930 --> 00:23:51.449
I just,
1072
00:23:51.689 --> 00:23:52.930
I don't want El Sayed to be my senator.
1073
00:23:52.939 --> 00:23:53.109
I'm,
1074
00:23:53.170 --> 00:23:54.229
I'm basically trying to,
1075
00:23:54.420 --> 00:23:54.599
uh,
1076
00:23:54.849 --> 00:23:55.729
this way I'll win either way.
1077
00:23:55.780 --> 00:23:56.010
I'm like,
1078
00:23:56.050 --> 00:23:57.050
you're hedging your life.
1079
00:23:57.449 --> 00:23:58.630
This is what this is.
1080
00:23:58.930 --> 00:23:59.329
And
1081
00:24:00.250 --> 00:24:00.930
Because
1082
00:24:01.089 --> 00:24:02.130
a representative of your state,
1083
00:24:02.290 --> 00:24:02.959
particularly governor,
1084
00:24:03.010 --> 00:24:05.569
can make your life considerably worse if they win,
1085
00:24:05.609 --> 00:24:05.760
if,
1086
00:24:05.810 --> 00:24:06.010
if,
1087
00:24:06.089 --> 00:24:07.589
if you don't like their policies.
1088
00:24:08.089 --> 00:24:08.290
I mean,
1089
00:24:08.329 --> 00:24:09.430
you can really do this,
1090
00:24:09.449 --> 00:24:09.900
uh,
1091
00:24:10.010 --> 00:24:10.369
down the,
1092
00:24:10.449 --> 00:24:10.680
the,
1093
00:24:10.689 --> 00:24:11.229
down the line.
1094
00:24:11.810 --> 00:24:14.000
You should get paid if you,
1095
00:24:14.069 --> 00:24:14.239
uh,
1096
00:24:14.250 --> 00:24:14.449
if you,
1097
00:24:14.520 --> 00:24:16.469
if a candidate that you think is gonna make your life worse,
1098
00:24:16.689 --> 00:24:17.719
is going to get elected,
1099
00:24:17.890 --> 00:24:18.810
and they're gonna make your life worse,
1100
00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:19.599
you should get paid for that.
1101
00:24:19.650 --> 00:24:20.829
You should get compensated for it.
1102
00:24:21.130 --> 00:24:23.109
And you can actually look at this and try to calculate
1103
00:24:23.530 --> 00:24:24.430
exactly what's going on.
1104
00:24:24.489 --> 00:24:24.569
When,
1105
00:24:24.689 --> 00:24:24.890
when,
1106
00:24:24.930 --> 00:24:26.550
in 2028 is a good example of this.
1107
00:24:26.770 --> 00:24:29.290
If a left-wing candidate were to win in 2028,
1108
00:24:29.449 --> 00:24:32.469
it's likely your taxes would go up and that would cost you actual money.
1109
00:24:32.770 --> 00:24:33.910
You can hedge that risk
1110
00:24:34.040 --> 00:24:35.050
on prediction markets.
1111
00:24:35.640 --> 00:24:37.609
And that is something that I've done in the past.
1112
00:24:37.729 --> 00:24:38.969
It doesn't mean you can get all of,
1113
00:24:39.079 --> 00:24:39.369
you know,
1114
00:24:39.540 --> 00:24:39.989
tax,
1115
00:24:40.189 --> 00:24:41.650
tax burdens can be very large,
1116
00:24:41.890 --> 00:24:43.449
but you can get paid some of that money back,
1117
00:24:43.500 --> 00:24:44.369
hedge it a little bit,
1118
00:24:44.650 --> 00:24:44.770
uh,
1119
00:24:44.810 --> 00:24:46.089
if you understand how to do that.
1120
00:24:46.130 --> 00:24:47.359
And as we get closer to 2028,
1121
00:24:47.410 --> 00:24:47.530
we'll,
1122
00:24:47.599 --> 00:24:48.949
we'll talk about that a little bit more.
1123
00:24:49.319 --> 00:24:49.489
Um,
1124
00:24:49.540 --> 00:24:53.030
you can also hedge your life by just going into the Senate Fantasy League,
1125
00:24:53.209 --> 00:24:53.540
uh,
1126
00:24:53.640 --> 00:24:53.689
website,
1127
00:24:53.810 --> 00:24:55.089
SenateFantassy.com,
1128
00:24:55.410 --> 00:24:56.609
and put a team in there.
1129
00:24:56.689 --> 00:24:57.449
It is free.
1130
00:24:58.359 --> 00:24:58.479
Uh,
1131
00:24:58.569 --> 00:24:59.270
when you do that,
1132
00:24:59.520 --> 00:25:00.579
you go in there and you can pick
1133
00:25:00.920 --> 00:25:02.030
all candidates you don't like,
1134
00:25:02.119 --> 00:25:03.020
and if they all win,
1135
00:25:03.319 --> 00:25:05.780
you'll do really well in the Senate Fantasy League and maybe make some money.
1136
00:25:05.949 --> 00:25:06.239
Um,
1137
00:25:06.439 --> 00:25:07.030
we are,
1138
00:25:07.079 --> 00:25:07.239
uh,
1139
00:25:07.319 --> 00:25:09.599
we have about 500 teams in right now.
1140
00:25:09.680 --> 00:25:10.849
We'd love to get your team in.
1141
00:25:11.229 --> 00:25:11.800
500 teams,
1142
00:25:11.839 --> 00:25:12.010
there's,
1143
00:25:12.119 --> 00:25:12.760
I think there's,
1144
00:25:12.959 --> 00:25:13.459
uh,
1145
00:25:13.479 --> 00:25:14.859
the top 10 all get cash.
1146
00:25:15.119 --> 00:25:17.199
So you're talking about a 1 in 50 chance of winning cash.
1147
00:25:17.349 --> 00:25:18.040
Why wouldn't you take that?
1148
00:25:18.109 --> 00:25:18.579
It's free.
1149
00:25:18.880 --> 00:25:19.959
It's a free opportunity,
1150
00:25:20.199 --> 00:25:20.319
uh,
1151
00:25:20.400 --> 00:25:21.310
to win some money.
1152
00:25:21.439 --> 00:25:22.319
I was thinking about it,
1153
00:25:22.479 --> 00:25:23.359
I was thinking about this.
1154
00:25:23.439 --> 00:25:24.800
I have not run this by anybody yet.
1155
00:25:25.150 --> 00:25:26.150
But also giving like,
1156
00:25:26.280 --> 00:25:26.560
I don't know,
1157
00:25:26.599 --> 00:25:29.750
100 bucks to whoever finishes in dead last place.
1158
00:25:30.119 --> 00:25:32.859
If you are capable of coming in last place in this,
1159
00:25:33.130 --> 00:25:34.640
maybe we come up with a prize for that too,
1160
00:25:34.719 --> 00:25:35.109
cause I,
1161
00:25:35.479 --> 00:25:35.719
you know,
1162
00:25:35.920 --> 00:25:36.000
again,
1163
00:25:36.079 --> 00:25:36.520
just luck,
1164
00:25:36.640 --> 00:25:38.209
you think you're gonna win some of these cases,
1165
00:25:38.400 --> 00:25:38.670
uh,
1166
00:25:38.680 --> 00:25:39.500
races anyway.
1167
00:25:39.640 --> 00:25:40.050
Um,
1168
00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:40.660
so,
1169
00:25:40.729 --> 00:25:41.479
Senate Fantasy.com,
1170
00:25:41.560 --> 00:25:42.310
do we have the leaderboard up?
1171
00:25:42.390 --> 00:25:45.300
One thing we added as a feature because some of these names are so great,
1172
00:25:45.760 --> 00:25:45.869
uh,
1173
00:25:45.920 --> 00:25:47.540
you can now like the names as well.
1174
00:25:47.800 --> 00:25:48.069
Um,
1175
00:25:48.160 --> 00:25:50.400
we just launched this like a couple of hours ago,
1176
00:25:50.520 --> 00:25:51.979
so you click on the heart next to it
1177
00:25:52.119 --> 00:25:53.119
and we'll see who likes,
1178
00:25:53.160 --> 00:25:53.390
uh,
1179
00:25:53.400 --> 00:25:53.640
the name.
1180
00:25:53.719 --> 00:25:54.800
Maybe we'll come up with a prize.
1181
00:25:55.055 --> 00:25:56.084
Some merch or something
1182
00:25:56.265 --> 00:25:57.104
for whoever,
1183
00:25:57.145 --> 00:25:57.665
uh,
1184
00:25:57.824 --> 00:25:58.224
whatever,
1185
00:25:58.305 --> 00:25:58.614
uh,
1186
00:25:58.785 --> 00:25:59.655
name does well.
1187
00:25:59.854 --> 00:26:00.064
Right now,
1188
00:26:00.224 --> 00:26:02.005
Jay Rogue Fighters is in first place.
1189
00:26:02.185 --> 00:26:02.375
Um,
1190
00:26:02.425 --> 00:26:03.285
you kind of look down,
1191
00:26:03.505 --> 00:26:04.295
let's go Brewers,
1192
00:26:04.375 --> 00:26:04.535
uh,
1193
00:26:04.545 --> 00:26:05.704
might get a double win here,
1194
00:26:05.824 --> 00:26:05.905
uh,
1195
00:26:05.984 --> 00:26:08.265
winning the World Series and also
winning the fantasy league.
1196
00:26:08.535 --> 00:26:09.704
Kandahar and Jalalabad,
1197
00:26:09.775 --> 00:26:10.185
I love that one.
1198
00:26:10.234 --> 00:26:12.744
That was an old bit we did on Glenn's show in like 2001.
1199
00:26:12.785 --> 00:26:14.064
That's an old-timey listener.
1200
00:26:14.165 --> 00:26:14.724
I love it.
1201
00:26:15.064 --> 00:26:15.775
Uh,
1202
00:26:16.064 --> 00:26:16.285
great,
1203
00:26:16.425 --> 00:26:16.584
uh,
1204
00:26:16.744 --> 00:26:16.765
name,
1205
00:26:16.905 --> 00:26:18.285
neither Steve nor Stu.
1206
00:26:18.739 --> 00:26:18.979
Uh,
1207
00:26:19.060 --> 00:26:19.219
is,
1208
00:26:19.300 --> 00:26:20.439
is in there as well.
1209
00:26:20.619 --> 00:26:21.939
Ilhan's Legal Fund.
1210
00:26:22.099 --> 00:26:22.660
I don't know if we,
1211
00:26:22.859 --> 00:26:24.640
do we want Ilhan's Legal Fund to win?
1212
00:26:25.010 --> 00:26:25.140
Uh,
1213
00:26:25.420 --> 00:26:26.500
tons and tons of great ones on there.
1214
00:26:26.579 --> 00:26:26.859
Go down,
1215
00:26:27.180 --> 00:26:27.939
scroll around,
1216
00:26:28.180 --> 00:26:29.599
click on whatever you want.
1217
00:26:29.859 --> 00:26:30.140
Um,
1218
00:26:30.219 --> 00:26:30.599
we've got,
1219
00:26:30.699 --> 00:26:31.089
uh,
1220
00:26:31.260 --> 00:26:31.900
Steve Krakauer,
1221
00:26:32.020 --> 00:26:33.959
Megyn Kelly's executive producer is in there now.
1222
00:26:34.050 --> 00:26:34.260
Uh,
1223
00:26:34.459 --> 00:26:34.900
uh,
1224
00:26:35.160 --> 00:26:35.260
uh,
1225
00:26:35.339 --> 00:26:35.760
PMT,
1226
00:26:35.819 --> 00:26:36.949
the prediction market trader,
1227
00:26:37.010 --> 00:26:38.890
one of the top traders in the world is in this.
1228
00:26:39.219 --> 00:26:39.500
Go in there,
1229
00:26:39.619 --> 00:26:40.540
see how you match up against them.
1230
00:26:40.579 --> 00:26:41.250
And then you have me.
1231
00:26:41.339 --> 00:26:41.780
I'm,
1232
00:26:41.989 --> 00:26:43.650
I'm in 84th place right now,
1233
00:26:43.859 --> 00:26:44.780
85th place.
1234
00:26:45.430 --> 00:26:46.369
I'm gonna pass everybody.
1235
00:26:46.449 --> 00:26:46.989
Don't worry about it.
1236
00:26:47.069 --> 00:26:47.780
It just takes time.
1237
00:26:48.020 --> 00:26:48.300
OK,
1238
00:26:48.469 --> 00:26:48.550
uh,
1239
00:26:48.630 --> 00:26:48.829
go there,
1240
00:26:48.910 --> 00:26:49.869
Senate Fantasy.com.
1241
00:26:49.949 --> 00:26:50.140
Get in.
1242
00:26:50.150 --> 00:26:50.949
You only have a week left,
1243
00:26:51.030 --> 00:26:51.869
but you do have a week.
1244
00:26:52.189 --> 00:26:53.170
Get your team in there.
1245
00:26:53.550 --> 00:26:54.810
Be one of the people that can win.
1246
00:26:54.949 --> 00:26:55.630
I would love to fund.
1247
00:26:55.709 --> 00:26:57.930
I would love to fund your prediction market account.
1248
00:26:58.390 --> 00:26:58.469
Uh,
1249
00:26:58.540 --> 00:27:00.130
2500 bucks first prize.
1250
00:27:00.229 --> 00:27:01.709
I think there's $1000 for second prize.
1251
00:27:01.790 --> 00:27:02.699
It goes all the way down.
1252
00:27:02.949 --> 00:27:03.030
Uh,
1253
00:27:03.069 --> 00:27:03.510
the top 10,
1254
00:27:03.550 --> 00:27:04.969
I think all of them win cash.
1255
00:27:05.469 --> 00:27:05.869
Get in,
1256
00:27:05.949 --> 00:27:06.099
uh,
1257
00:27:06.180 --> 00:27:06.949
and there's also prizes,
1258
00:27:06.989 --> 00:27:08.339
I think for the whole top 100.
1259
00:27:08.630 --> 00:27:08.810
So,
1260
00:27:09.109 --> 00:27:09.689
lots of chances,
1261
00:27:09.790 --> 00:27:11.000
1 in 5 chance to win something.
1262
00:27:11.689 --> 00:27:13.489
Go to that Senate Fantasy.com,
1263
00:27:13.810 --> 00:27:14.469
free to join.
1264
00:27:14.849 --> 00:27:15.310
Check it out.
1265
00:27:15.550 --> 00:27:16.400
Senate Fantasy.com.
1266
00:27:16.449 --> 00:27:17.000
Back in a second.
1267
00:27:34.939 --> 00:27:37.530
So there's a big election coming up here in 8 days.
1268
00:27:37.660 --> 00:27:40.020
There was another election that happened over the weekend
1269
00:27:40.339 --> 00:27:41.500
in Brazil,
1270
00:27:41.579 --> 00:27:43.780
and it was kind of a big prediction market story.
1271
00:27:43.969 --> 00:27:47.760
Lula wins Brazil's presidency in stunning blow
1272
00:27:48.020 --> 00:27:49.890
to Latin America's right.
1273
00:27:50.260 --> 00:27:50.369
Uh,
1274
00:27:50.420 --> 00:27:53.319
you'll be shocked to hear that there's some controversy around this election.
1275
00:27:53.689 --> 00:27:54.020
Um,
1276
00:27:54.180 --> 00:27:54.380
I,
1277
00:27:54.500 --> 00:27:56.420
there's also prediction market lessons to be learned.
1278
00:27:56.579 --> 00:27:57.170
Scottylicious,
1279
00:27:57.229 --> 00:27:57.339
uh,
1280
00:27:57.420 --> 00:27:59.280
David Ben Susan who has been on the program a couple of times.
1281
00:27:59.739 --> 00:27:59.939
Uh,
1282
00:28:00.060 --> 00:28:02.380
he reminds us of a very important tip.
1283
00:28:03.099 --> 00:28:05.589
Very important tip about this when it comes to prediction markets.
1284
00:28:05.959 --> 00:28:06.359
He says,
1285
00:28:06.439 --> 00:28:06.630
uh,
1286
00:28:06.680 --> 00:28:08.140
never chase losses.
1287
00:28:08.520 --> 00:28:10.880
I lost a lot on the first round of the Brazil race,
1288
00:28:10.959 --> 00:28:13.859
but still had some Lula bought in the low 60s for the final round.
1289
00:28:14.199 --> 00:28:16.310
It might have been tempting to buy a bunch of Bolsonaro
1290
00:28:16.310 --> 00:28:18.550
to win in round two because he was heavily favored.
1291
00:28:18.800 --> 00:28:19.160
Instead,
1292
00:28:19.239 --> 00:28:23.180
we held tight to the Lula shares we bought and bought more in the low 80s last night
1293
00:28:23.319 --> 00:28:24.709
when things became obvious.
1294
00:28:24.920 --> 00:28:26.640
I think over the years I've assimilated the
1295
00:28:26.640 --> 00:28:29.520
idea that chasing losses is a poor proposition.
1296
00:28:30.140 --> 00:28:31.119
Now I have to remember
1297
00:28:31.579 --> 00:28:31.920
the,
1298
00:28:31.930 --> 00:28:32.209
uh,
1299
00:28:32.219 --> 00:28:34.420
another important lesson stay the hell away from
1300
00:28:34.420 --> 00:28:37.229
unpredictable Latin American elections in the first place.
1301
00:28:37.390 --> 00:28:37.619
I mean,
1302
00:28:37.699 --> 00:28:39.770
there might be two constitutional amendments in there.
1303
00:28:40.020 --> 00:28:40.579
Number one,
1304
00:28:40.699 --> 00:28:40.859
the,
1305
00:28:40.900 --> 00:28:41.219
uh,
1306
00:28:41.300 --> 00:28:42.699
the Scotty amendment,
1307
00:28:42.979 --> 00:28:43.290
um,
1308
00:28:43.380 --> 00:28:43.849
which is,
1309
00:28:43.859 --> 00:28:44.319
uh,
1310
00:28:44.780 --> 00:28:45.180
uh,
1311
00:28:45.280 --> 00:28:47.400
chasing losses is a poor proposition.
1312
00:28:47.780 --> 00:28:48.680
I like the wording of it.
1313
00:28:48.739 --> 00:28:49.709
I think that might be our next,
1314
00:28:49.739 --> 00:28:49.969
uh,
1315
00:28:49.979 --> 00:28:51.739
constitutional amendment if he doesn't mind us using it.
1316
00:28:51.979 --> 00:28:54.359
And then also stay the hell away from unpredictable Latin
1317
00:28:54.359 --> 00:28:57.119
American elections because when has there ever been anything that's gone
1318
00:28:57.260 --> 00:28:58.079
awry at all
1319
00:28:58.619 --> 00:28:59.680
in a Latin American election?
1320
00:28:59.859 --> 00:29:00.819
Everything seems just,
1321
00:29:00.939 --> 00:29:02.239
just perfect all the time,
1322
00:29:02.660 --> 00:29:02.819
uh,
1323
00:29:02.979 --> 00:29:04.099
never any controversy.
1324
00:29:04.410 --> 00:29:06.829
Bolsonaro is saying he thinks the election was stolen.
1325
00:29:07.060 --> 00:29:08.020
It's one of those things that,
1326
00:29:08.170 --> 00:29:08.260
you know,
1327
00:29:08.349 --> 00:29:08.750
of course,
1328
00:29:08.859 --> 00:29:09.209
I don't know,
1329
00:29:09.260 --> 00:29:11.819
it seems like over the past decade or so every single
1330
00:29:11.819 --> 00:29:13.770
candidate that has lost an election has said it's stolen.
1331
00:29:14.050 --> 00:29:14.109
Uh,
1332
00:29:14.180 --> 00:29:14.410
however,
1333
00:29:14.479 --> 00:29:15.540
a little more credibility in,
1334
00:29:15.650 --> 00:29:18.010
in random Latin American elections.
1335
00:29:18.260 --> 00:29:20.199
We will see if there's any credibility to that.
1336
00:29:20.550 --> 00:29:20.800
Um,
1337
00:29:20.880 --> 00:29:22.619
prediction markets are getting
1338
00:29:23.040 --> 00:29:24.699
hit today because of this election.
1339
00:29:25.540 --> 00:29:25.859
Why?
1340
00:29:25.949 --> 00:29:26.060
Well,
1341
00:29:26.140 --> 00:29:26.359
as,
1342
00:29:26.420 --> 00:29:27.319
uh,
1343
00:29:27.329 --> 00:29:28.020
David mentioned,
1344
00:29:28.880 --> 00:29:33.260
This is a situation where Bolsonaro was favored going into this election night.
1345
00:29:33.479 --> 00:29:33.630
And,
1346
00:29:33.640 --> 00:29:33.890
uh,
1347
00:29:33.920 --> 00:29:34.079
you know,
1348
00:29:34.119
--> 00:29:36.119
if you look anywhere on Twitter or anything else,
1349
00:29:36.199 --> 00:29:36.709
people are all saying,
1350
00:29:36.760 --> 00:29:37.079
oh,
1351
00:29:37.319 --> 00:29:37.510
see,
1352
00:29:37.630 --> 00:29:39.229
prediction markets don't predict anything.
1353
00:29:39.560 --> 00:29:40.729
Look at this chart,
1354
00:29:41.040 --> 00:29:41.270
and,
1355
00:29:41.280 --> 00:29:41.719
uh,
1356
00:29:41.729 --> 00:29:42.939
I'll show you the chart in a second.
1357
00:29:43.199 --> 00:29:45.040
We're also getting this from the mainstream media,
1358
00:29:45.160 --> 00:29:46.420
prediction markets credibility
1359
00:29:46.599 --> 00:29:48.300
on the line in midterms.
1360
00:29:48.719 --> 00:29:49.349
And of course,
1361
00:29:49.400 --> 00:29:50.219
that is true.
1362
00:29:50.479 --> 00:29:51.660
It is on the line.
1363
00:29:51.959 --> 00:29:53.380
The reason I know that is because
1364
00:29:53.560 --> 00:29:54.880
it's always on the line.
1365
00:29:54.989 --> 00:29:57.800
Every single time prediction markets predict anything.
1366
00:29:58.329 --> 00:30:02.119
We are told that they have to predict it correctly or they have no credibility.
1367
00:30:02.569 --> 00:30:02.839
That is,
1368
00:30:02.849 --> 00:30:03.140
of course,
1369
00:30:03.209 --> 00:30:04.910
an idiotic uh idea,
1370
00:30:05.250 --> 00:30:07.790
and I can show you evidence of that here in a moment.
1371
00:30:08.699 --> 00:30:09.599
I will also say,
1372
00:30:09.619 --> 00:30:10.900
I do get it here.
1373
00:30:11.020 --> 00:30:12.530
I do get that I am pulling,
1374
00:30:12.540 --> 00:30:14.319
I am pushing a very heavy
1375
00:30:14.780 --> 00:30:15.560
uh stone
1376
00:30:16.339 --> 00:30:17.640
up a very steep
1377
00:30:17.780 --> 00:30:20.319
hill when I'm asking the American
1378
00:30:20.449 --> 00:30:22.160
population to understand probability.
1379
00:30:22.660 --> 00:30:23.839
You being here,
1380
00:30:23.859 --> 00:30:24.849
might be a little different.
1381
00:30:25.060 --> 00:30:27.209
You might be able to intake these things and understand them.
1382
00:30:27.380 --> 00:30:29.260
You have to understand that most people don't,
1383
00:30:29.339 --> 00:30:31.719
or at least don't care enough to think about it.
1384
00:30:31.910 --> 00:30:32.099
Um,
1385
00:30:32.140 --> 00:30:32.489
and that's,
1386
00:30:32.500 --> 00:30:32.739
of course,
1387
00:30:32.849 --> 00:30:33.599
social media,
1388
00:30:33.780 --> 00:30:36.780
it makes that problem 10 times worse than it probably even is.
1389
00:30:37.790 --> 00:30:41.209
Probability is something that is included when you're talking about these things,
1390
00:30:41.270 --> 00:30:45.050
and it is very difficult for the average person to understand because to be fair,
1391
00:30:45.270 --> 00:30:45.689
they don't
1392
00:30:45.949 --> 00:30:46.310
trade,
1393
00:30:46.469 --> 00:30:47.449
they don't care
1394
00:30:47.560 --> 00:30:48.400
about this stuff.
1395
00:30:48.630 --> 00:30:48.829
Um,
1396
00:30:48.949 --> 00:30:51.540
so they don't care about your stupid probability arguments.
1397
00:30:51.739 --> 00:30:53.130
What they care about is who's gonna win,
1398
00:30:53.459 --> 00:30:54.670
because that's what affects their lives.
1399
00:30:54.790 --> 00:30:55.000
They don't,
1400
00:30:55.280 --> 00:30:55.859
they're not trading,
1401
00:30:55.939 --> 00:30:56.150
they don't,
1402
00:30:56.229 --> 00:30:56.630
they don't care.
1403
00:30:56.709 --> 00:30:57.650
They just wanna know who's gonna win.
1404
00:30:57.910 --> 00:31:00.430
And if you tell them one candidate's gonna win and that candidate loses,
1405
00:31:00.910 --> 00:31:01.410
well,
1406
00:31:02.430 --> 00:31:04.589
Then you've lied to them and you have no credibility.
1407
00:31:04.709 --> 00:31:06.969
That's the way this gets looked at by a lot of people
1408
00:31:07.150 --> 00:31:08.449
in the general population.
1409
00:31:08.910 --> 00:31:10.170
And I understand that.
1410
00:31:10.229 --> 00:31:12.010
I understand the emotions behind it.
1411
00:31:12.290 --> 00:31:12.630
Of course,
1412
00:31:12.750 --> 00:31:13.660
what you have to get,
1413
00:31:13.719 --> 00:31:13.760
if,
1414
00:31:13.910 --> 00:31:14.229
and if,
1415
00:31:14.469 --> 00:31:14.630
you know,
1416
00:31:14.709 --> 00:31:16.609
if you know people who are thinking this way,
1417
00:31:17.270 --> 00:31:19.910
trying to understand and trying to help them understand this is,
1418
00:31:19.949 --> 00:31:20.530
is key,
1419
00:31:21.030 --> 00:31:21.260
uh,
1420
00:31:21.270 --> 00:31:23.910
to prediction markets having more utility than it might just
1421
00:31:23.910 --> 00:31:26.790
have to us and to people who are political obsessives.
1422
00:31:27.489 --> 00:31:27.709
Uh,
1423
00:31:28.030 --> 00:31:28.650
because
1424
00:31:29.069 --> 00:31:29.410
what
1425
00:31:29.550 --> 00:31:31.390
they're not telling you Bolsonaro was going to win.
1426
00:31:31.469 --> 00:31:31.790
They told,
1427
00:31:31.880 --> 00:31:33.849
they were telling you Bolsonaro had a good chance to win.
1428
00:31:34.069 --> 00:31:34.219
Um,
1429
00:31:34.270 --> 00:31:34.859
do we have the,
1430
00:31:34.989 --> 00:31:37.189
the market here by any chance on this Bolsonaro election?
1431
00:31:37.229 --> 00:31:37.930
You see here,
1432
00:31:38.479 --> 00:31:38.709
uh,
1433
00:31:38.910 --> 00:31:40.430
Bolsonaro was the underdog,
1434
00:31:40.670 --> 00:31:40.790
uh,
1435
00:31:40.910 --> 00:31:41.770
then kind of,
1436
00:31:41.819 --> 00:31:42.329
uh,
1437
00:31:42.390 --> 00:31:43.619
went to about a 50/50 race,
1438
00:31:43.670 --> 00:31:45.660
was the underdog again going into the first round,
1439
00:31:45.910 --> 00:31:48.329
then became the favorite going into the second round.
1440
00:31:48.989 --> 00:31:50.030
And if you see the end of this,
1441
00:31:50.150 --> 00:31:52.250
there's two basically straight up and down lines
1442
00:31:52.709 --> 00:31:53.790
because they flip-flopped.
1443
00:31:53.910 --> 00:31:55.030
Go back and give me like a,
1444
00:31:55.150 --> 00:31:55.239
a,
1445
00:31:55.310 --> 00:31:56.770
a month here on this chart.
1446
00:31:57.550 --> 00:31:58.709
And I'm gonna get a better view of it.
1447
00:31:59.199 --> 00:32:04.369
Bolsonaro was about a 75% favorite going into election day and wound up losing,
1448
00:32:04.439 --> 00:32:05.060
at least
1449
00:32:05.319 --> 00:32:06.579
according to the final count.
1450
00:32:06.959 --> 00:32:07.949
Lula won,
1451
00:32:08.500 --> 00:32:10.380
as only a 25% chance of winning.
1452
00:32:10.800 --> 00:32:11.280
What you,
1453
00:32:11.439 --> 00:32:11.640
you know,
1454
00:32:11.880 --> 00:32:11.959
what,
1455
00:32:12.079 --> 00:32:13.459
what is hard for people to understand,
1456
00:32:13.479 --> 00:32:15.069
cause I think a lot of times they look at this and they think,
1457
00:32:15.160 --> 00:32:15.239
0,
1458
00:32:15.280 --> 00:32:16.069
75%,
1459
00:32:16.280 --> 00:32:19.819
a a person who's 75% uh 75%
1460
00:32:19.949 --> 00:32:21.099
in a polling average
1461
00:32:21.439 --> 00:32:22.040
is a very,
1462
00:32:22.150 --> 00:32:22.439
very high,
1463
00:32:22.520 --> 00:32:24.619
like a almost 100% chance to win.
1464
00:32:25.150 --> 00:32:26.839
If you're 75% in a polling average,
1465
00:32:26.920 --> 00:32:28.890
that's different than 75% on a prediction market.
1466
00:32:28.979 --> 00:32:30.099
A prediction market is telling you
1467
00:32:30.439 --> 00:32:32.829
that 1 out of every 4 times this election occurs,
1468
00:32:33.079 --> 00:32:35.079
you should expect Lula to win it.
1469
00:32:36.569 --> 00:32:37.170
3 out of 4,
1470
00:32:37.209 --> 00:32:37.829
you should expect
1471
00:32:38.369 --> 00:32:39.619
Bolsonaro to win it.
1472
00:32:40.050 --> 00:32:41.689
This was one of those indications,
1473
00:32:42.050 --> 00:32:43.810
or one of those chances where um
1474
00:32:43.910 --> 00:32:45.209
uh the opposite happened,
1475
00:32:45.290 --> 00:32:46.890
where the underdog wins.
1476
00:32:46.969 --> 00:32:49.189
The underdog does win sometimes.
1477
00:32:50.979 --> 00:32:51.319
And,
1478
00:32:51.369 --> 00:32:51.500
you know,
1479
00:32:51.619 --> 00:32:53.959
when you think about prediction markets in a way.
1480
00:32:54.739 --> 00:32:55.280
They're not,
1481
00:32:55.500 --> 00:32:58.319
the information they're giving you aren't really predictions.
1482
00:32:58.619 --> 00:33:00.380
If like if you are on a prediction market,
1483
00:33:00.449 --> 00:33:01.199
if you're trading,
1484
00:33:01.739 --> 00:33:03.859
you are doing your best to predict the outcome.
1485
00:33:03.989 --> 00:33:05.579
That is your role in the process.
1486
00:33:05.699 --> 00:33:06.369
So in that way,
1487
00:33:06.489 --> 00:33:08.349
prediction markets are about predicting things.
1488
00:33:09.140 --> 00:33:11.530
When it comes to the output of a prediction market,
1489
00:33:11.829 --> 00:33:15.369
when at the end of the Fed day it says 70% favorite for someone like Bolsonaro,
1490
00:33:15.869 --> 00:33:17.569
what it is doing there is less
1491
00:33:18.109 --> 00:33:18.750
predicting.
1492
00:33:20.020 --> 00:33:22.040
and more of crystallizing
1493
00:33:22.660 --> 00:33:25.099
all of human knowledge into one number.
1494
00:33:26.400 --> 00:33:28.079
All the things that we think we know.
1495
00:33:28.199 --> 00:33:30.020
We could be wrong about some of those things.
1496
00:33:30.439 --> 00:33:31.709
That's why prediction markets,
1497
00:33:31.719 --> 00:33:32.500
markets aren't perfect,
1498
00:33:32.560 --> 00:33:33.040
and by the way,
1499
00:33:33.199 --> 00:33:34.319
here at Predictable with Stew,
1500
00:33:34.599 --> 00:33:35.859
we are happy they aren't perfect,
1501
00:33:35.880 --> 00:33:36.670
because if they were perfect,
1502
00:33:36.719 --> 00:33:38.219
it would be very difficult to make any money.
1503
00:33:38.550 --> 00:33:38.719
Um,
1504
00:33:38.760 --> 00:33:41.000
we look for the imperfections and try to take advantage of those.
1505
00:33:41.079 --> 00:33:42.380
That's what we do here all the time.
1506
00:33:42.750 --> 00:33:44.260
And there are some imperfections.
1507
00:33:44.270 --> 00:33:47.030
You can always find value in individual markets,
1508
00:33:47.099 --> 00:33:47.609
but what
1509
00:33:47.829 --> 00:33:49.609
prediction markets do really well,
1510
00:33:49.869 --> 00:33:50.290
is
1511
00:33:50.390 --> 00:33:51.650
if they tell you
1512
00:33:51.790 --> 00:33:52.930
a 70%,
1513
00:33:53.310 --> 00:33:55.530
there's a 70% chance of something happening,
1514
00:33:55.869 --> 00:33:56.589
over time,
1515
00:33:56.670 --> 00:33:57.609
what you'll see is,
1516
00:33:57.790 --> 00:34:00.380
there's a 70% chance of that thing happening.
1517
00:34:00.589 --> 00:34:01.829
We've told you multiple stories,
1518
00:34:01.900 --> 00:34:04.310
we should do multiple uh studies of this over time.
1519
00:34:04.380 --> 00:34:05.930
There's a new one out right now.
1520
00:34:07.079 --> 00:34:07.199
Uh,
1521
00:34:07.270 --> 00:34:07.839
calibration,
1522
00:34:07.920 --> 00:34:08.429
accuracy,
1523
00:34:08.438 --> 00:34:11.620
and domain variation across 1 million collective forecasts
1524
00:34:11.918 --> 00:34:12.760
from prediction
1525
00:34:12.958 --> 00:34:13.590
platforms.
1526
00:34:13.879 --> 00:34:14.188
Now,
1527
00:34:14.399 --> 00:34:17.830
I'm not gonna go through all the details of the study because I have a show to do and,
1528
00:34:17.840 --> 00:34:18.070
uh,
1529
00:34:18.080 --> 00:34:19.958
I don't want everyone to tune out.
1530
00:34:20.280 --> 00:34:20.438
OK,
1531
00:34:20.520 --> 00:34:20.629
I,
1532
00:34:20.679 --> 00:34:20.830
I,
1533
00:34:20.879 --> 00:34:21.179
I,
1534
00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:24.260
reading academic studies on the air is not exactly
1535
00:34:24.438 --> 00:34:25.899
the highest rating potential.
1536
00:34:26.120 --> 00:34:27.179
But what I will tell you is,
1537
00:34:27.478 --> 00:34:28.478
ideally,
1538
00:34:29.139 --> 00:34:30.399
This study would show you
1539
00:34:30.938 --> 00:34:34.438
a bunch of lines that go from the bottom left-hand corner of your screen
1540
00:34:34.780 --> 00:34:35.418
to the bottom,
1541
00:34:35.500 --> 00:34:37.199
or to the top right-hand corner of your screen.
1542
00:34:37.458 --> 00:34:38.360
There's a straight line,
1543
00:34:38.370 --> 00:34:41.409
and you hope that those predictions match that line.
1544
00:34:41.620 --> 00:34:43.780
Let me show you the results over all of these categories.
1545
00:34:43.860 --> 00:34:46.320
This is what they came up with over a million different contracts.
1546
00:34:46.540 --> 00:34:49.250
And what you see here for those listening on podcasts
1547
00:34:49.550 --> 00:34:50.389
are Lines
1548
00:34:50.530 --> 00:34:53.389
that go from the bottom left-hand corner of the box,
1549
00:34:53.810 --> 00:34:56.280
all the way up to the top right-hand corner of the box.
1550
00:34:56.688 --> 00:34:56.899
That,
1551
00:34:56.929 --> 00:34:57.159
uh,
1552
00:34:57.169 --> 00:34:58.949
typical straight line up,
1553
00:34:59.209 --> 00:34:59.439
uh,
1554
00:34:59.449 --> 00:35:01.169
to up and to the right is exactly what you
1555
00:35:01.169 --> 00:35:03.649
want and what you get in almost every category.
1556
00:35:03.729 --> 00:35:03.840
Now,
1557
00:35:03.879 --> 00:35:05.459
there are blips here.
1558
00:35:05.719 --> 00:35:07.489
A couple of the blips you might notice
1559
00:35:07.850 --> 00:35:08.300
are,
1560
00:35:08.330 --> 00:35:08.760
um,
1561
00:35:08.770 --> 00:35:10.409
in geopolitics.
1562
00:35:10.679 --> 00:35:11.540
A little bit,
1563
00:35:11.800 --> 00:35:12.080
um,
1564
00:35:12.320 --> 00:35:13.439
military conflicts,
1565
00:35:13.760 --> 00:35:14.969
notably unpredictable.
1566
00:35:15.199 --> 00:35:15.540
Uh,
1567
00:35:15.550 --> 00:35:15.659
uh,
1568
00:35:15.719 --> 00:35:17.120
there's a little bit of a bias.
1569
00:35:17.360 --> 00:35:17.909
Elections,
1570
00:35:17.919 --> 00:35:20.919
a tad when you go out over a long period of time.
1571
00:35:21.429 --> 00:35:23.320
Technology sometimes difficult to predict,
1572
00:35:23.520 --> 00:35:23.929
but I mean,
1573
00:35:24.010 --> 00:35:24.570
these things are,
1574
00:35:24.679 --> 00:35:24.879
what I'm,
1575
00:35:24.959 --> 00:35:25.840
what I'm saying they're difficult.
1576
00:35:25.879 --> 00:35:26.340
It's like
1577
00:35:26.780 --> 00:35:28.149
instead of being 100% accurate,
1578
00:35:28.169 --> 00:35:31.159
it's like 98% or 95% or 90% accurate.
1579
00:35:31.540 --> 00:35:32.100
You see,
1580
00:35:32.179 --> 00:35:35.340
there is very little variation from this line showing,
1581
00:35:35.659 --> 00:35:36.399
once again,
1582
00:35:36.620 --> 00:35:36.770
you know,
1583
00:35:36.830 --> 00:35:38.060
this is not the 1st study that showed this,
1584
00:35:38.100 --> 00:35:40.719
this is like the 5th or 6th that we featured on this show,
1585
00:35:41.139 --> 00:35:42.899
that when you use prediction markets,
1586
00:35:42.939 --> 00:35:45.320
they are the greatest tool we have to understand
1587
00:35:45.699 --> 00:35:46.149
the world.
1588
00:35:46.989 --> 00:35:47.350
That is,
1589
00:35:47.439 --> 00:35:47.969
that's it
1590
00:35:48.699 --> 00:35:50.439
That's one of the reasons why I do this show.
1591
00:35:50.860 --> 00:35:50.979
Yes,
1592
00:35:51.060 --> 00:35:52.580
I do it also to make money
1593
00:35:52.860 --> 00:35:53.479
because I like,
1594
00:35:53.500 --> 00:35:53.649
uh,
1595
00:35:53.659 --> 00:35:54.500
being in prediction markets.
1596
00:35:54.540 --> 00:35:55.090
And again,
1597
00:35:55.260 --> 00:35:56.850
if prediction markets were just gambling,
1598
00:35:56.899 --> 00:35:59.959
I can tell you I wouldn't have be up in every single year,
1599
00:36:00.419 --> 00:36:00.560
uh,
1600
00:36:00.570 --> 00:36:03.439
that I've been in prediction markets since I started over a decade ago.
1601
00:36:03.659 --> 00:36:03.739
Uh,
1602
00:36:03.780 --> 00:36:04.020
it's,
1603
00:36:04.060 --> 00:36:04.919
it wouldn't be,
1604
00:36:05.139 --> 00:36:05.189
uh,
1605
00:36:05.260 --> 00:36:06.979
you can't replicate that unless you're some,
1606
00:36:07.060 --> 00:36:07.260
you know,
1607
00:36:07.409 --> 00:36:07.860
genius,
1608
00:36:07.939 --> 00:36:08.260
uh,
1609
00:36:08.340 --> 00:36:08.500
you know,
1610
00:36:08.699 --> 00:36:09.300
professional gambler,
1611
00:36:09.379 --> 00:36:10.360
maybe some of them can.
1612
00:36:10.580 --> 00:36:11.169
I can't.
1613
00:36:11.370 --> 00:36:12.530
All I know is when I gamble,
1614
00:36:12.580 --> 00:36:13.360
I lose,
1615
00:36:13.689 --> 00:36:13.820
uh,
1616
00:36:13.899 --> 00:36:14.419
when I,
1617
00:36:14.500 --> 00:36:15.500
I'm on prediction markets,
1618
00:36:15.659 --> 00:36:16.540
I typically win.
1619
00:36:16.739 --> 00:36:17.379
Not every time.
1620
00:36:17.790 --> 00:36:19.169
But over a long period of time,
1621
00:36:19.199 --> 00:36:20.199
and that's what you should look at when
1622
00:36:20.199 --> 00:36:21.600
you're looking at the accuracy of these markets.
1623
00:36:21.719 --> 00:36:21.979
So,
1624
00:36:22.120 --> 00:36:24.340
when you think you're smart and you go on Twitter
1625
00:36:24.469 --> 00:36:24.840
and you say,
1626
00:36:24.919 --> 00:36:25.360
oh gosh,
1627
00:36:25.479 --> 00:36:25.629
well,
1628
00:36:25.699 --> 00:36:27.100
look at this one election
1629
00:36:27.479 --> 00:36:27.739
where
1630
00:36:28.219 --> 00:36:30.000
a 70% favorite lost,
1631
00:36:30.120 --> 00:36:32.239
I'm really smart for telling you that
1632
00:36:32.250 --> 00:36:34.560
prediction markets have no predictive ability.
1633
00:36:35.250 --> 00:36:37.929
Perhaps it would be notable for you to go back
1634
00:36:37.929 --> 00:36:39.709
and look at the academic studies that have been done
1635
00:36:39.850 --> 00:36:40.629
to show
1636
00:36:40.770 --> 00:36:41.929
that what they say,
1637
00:36:42.090 --> 00:36:43.239
a 70% favorite,
1638
00:36:43.449 --> 00:36:45.139
should win about 70% of the time,
1639
00:36:45.260 --> 00:36:47.629
has been shown true over every category,
1640
00:36:47.689 --> 00:36:50.790
over very long extended periods of time,
1641
00:36:50.929 --> 00:36:52.969
and millions of different contracts.
1642
00:36:53.669 --> 00:36:53.909
Yes,
1643
00:36:53.989 --> 00:36:55.489
you can point at one thing
1644
00:36:55.870 --> 00:36:57.020
where a favorite lost,
1645
00:36:57.149 --> 00:37:00.649
and you can think you're really smart and get your retweets and get your likes
1646
00:37:01.260 --> 00:37:03.969
from people who hate prediction markets for God knows what reason.
1647
00:37:04.610 --> 00:37:05.449
But at the end of the day,
1648
00:37:05.550 --> 00:37:08.270
what this is doing is making your information diet
1649
00:37:08.489 --> 00:37:09.139
better.
1650
00:37:09.370 --> 00:37:10.949
It's making you understand the world
1651
00:37:11.209 --> 00:37:12.120
more accurately.
1652
00:37:12.270 --> 00:37:14.250
It is cutting through media nonsense,
1653
00:37:14.449 --> 00:37:15.610
partisan nonsense,
1654
00:37:15.919 --> 00:37:18.189
all of these things that have been the enemy
1655
00:37:18.729 --> 00:37:20.439
of the information diet of the average.
1656
00:37:20.604 --> 00:37:21.014
Citizen.
1657
00:37:21.235 --> 00:37:23.104
It is cutting through all of that.
1658
00:37:23.405 --> 00:37:25.324
And if you're not in markets at all,
1659
00:37:25.405 --> 00:37:26.635
if you're just looking at this,
1660
00:37:26.935 --> 00:37:29.405
because you're just gonna go to Calsci and you're gonna click on the thing and say,
1661
00:37:29.485 --> 00:37:29.764
oh wow,
1662
00:37:29.804 --> 00:37:31.324
this person has an 85% chance to win.
1663
00:37:31.445 --> 00:37:32.584
You're just taking in the information.
1664
00:37:32.725 --> 00:37:33.185
It's doing
1665
00:37:33.405 --> 00:37:34.465
all of that for you
1666
00:37:34.625 --> 00:37:35.665
with all the work
1667
00:37:35.804 --> 00:37:36.504
for free.
1668
00:37:37.310 --> 00:37:38.909
And zero effort on your part.
1669
00:37:40.409 --> 00:37:43.169
How is this seen as anything but an incredible positive,
1670
00:37:43.570 --> 00:37:46.429
especially when the results are so crystal clear
1671
00:37:46.530 --> 00:37:47.770
over a long period of time.
1672
00:37:48.000 --> 00:37:49.580
Prediction markets are doing things
1673
00:37:49.929 --> 00:37:51.250
that have been the desire,
1674
00:37:51.600 --> 00:37:55.429
especially of those who feel left out of the mainstream media
1675
00:37:55.810 --> 00:37:57.120
talking points of the day,
1676
00:37:57.610 --> 00:37:58.149
who feel,
1677
00:37:58.290 --> 00:37:58.669
uh,
1678
00:37:58.889 --> 00:37:59.239
uh,
1679
00:37:59.250 --> 00:38:00.429
that they don't get
1680
00:38:00.570 --> 00:38:02.270
the most clear and accurate information.
1681
00:38:02.649 --> 00:38:03.969
If your desire is that,
1682
00:38:04.050 --> 00:38:05.949
and I've been working in that
field my entire life.
1683
00:38:06.560 --> 00:38:09.979
Your desire is to take information and actually get accurate information
1684
00:38:10.199 --> 00:38:10.719
to the people,
1685
00:38:10.919 --> 00:38:12.459
fair information to the people.
1686
00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:13.659
Nothing does it better
1687
00:38:14.020 --> 00:38:15.020
than prediction markets.
1688
00:38:15.320 --> 00:38:15.840
Back in a second.
1689
00:38:31.139 --> 00:38:32.250
Time for candidate countdown.
1690
00:38:32.350 --> 00:38:35.540
We are showing you a candidate a day to that could be um,
1691
00:38:35.770 --> 00:38:37.580
have some value for you on prediction markets,
1692
00:38:37.590 --> 00:38:40.850
and then we want to feature today's candidate countdown with 8 days remaining until
1693
00:38:41.110 --> 00:38:42.050
the midterms
1694
00:38:42.590 --> 00:38:44.699
is actually a group of candidates,
1695
00:38:44.909 --> 00:38:45.790
the Socialists.
1696
00:38:45.939 --> 00:38:46.189
Yes,
1697
00:38:46.310 --> 00:38:48.270
the Socialists are our candidates of the day.
1698
00:38:48.350 --> 00:38:49.750
Now that doesn't mean we want to pick the,
1699
00:38:49.870 --> 00:38:49.989
you know,
1700
00:38:50.110 --> 00:38:50.469
socialists,
1701
00:38:50.510 --> 00:38:50.790
but
1702
00:38:50.949 --> 00:38:52.770
I wanted to break this down for you largely because
1703
00:38:52.989 --> 00:38:54.530
the New York Times kind of set a
1704
00:38:54.939 --> 00:38:55.429
Um,
1705
00:38:55.550 --> 00:38:55.830
uh,
1706
00:38:55.909 --> 00:38:56.929
a marking point here,
1707
00:38:56.979 --> 00:38:58.750
and I wanted to kind of note it because
1708
00:38:58.750 --> 00:39:01.060
we're gonna have a lot of conversation after this election
1709
00:39:01.350 --> 00:39:02.889
whether socialist candidates
1710
00:39:03.149 --> 00:39:06.300
can win and whether America just absolutely hearts socialism.
1711
00:39:06.580 --> 00:39:08.500
Certainly you will get that from a lot of sources.
1712
00:39:08.989 --> 00:39:11.429
These are the candidates that they put out there in this article,
1713
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the 11 midterm races that could shape the progressive movement's future,
1714
00:39:15.790 --> 00:39:17.870
and many of them are either they're either
1715
00:39:17.870 --> 00:39:21.209
admitted democratic socialists or they just basically are
1716
00:39:21.389 --> 00:39:22.330
and just won't admit it,
1717
00:39:22.429 --> 00:39:23.030
one of the two.
1718
00:39:23.419 --> 00:39:23.649
Um,
1719
00:39:23.739 --> 00:39:25.659
and they feature these 11 candidates.
1720
00:39:25.739 --> 00:39:26.189
I want to go through,
1721
00:39:26.219 --> 00:39:26.459
this is,
1722
00:39:26.580 --> 00:39:26.879
these are,
1723
00:39:26.939 --> 00:39:27.070
uh,
1724
00:39:27.120 --> 00:39:28.959
the Calci percentages for these candidates.
1725
00:39:29.179 --> 00:39:31.199
El Sayed is a 66% favorite.
1726
00:39:31.739 --> 00:39:32.699
Flanagan in,
1727
00:39:32.780 --> 00:39:33.159
uh,
1728
00:39:33.189 --> 00:39:33.199
Miss,
1729
00:39:33.649 --> 00:39:33.729
uh,
1730
00:39:33.780 --> 00:39:34.100
excuse me,
1731
00:39:34.179 --> 00:39:34.919
Minnesota
1732
00:39:35.179 --> 00:39:37.169
for the Senate is an 83% favorite.
1733
00:39:37.580 --> 00:39:37.739
Uh,
1734
00:39:37.939 --> 00:39:38.419
Nixon,
1735
00:39:38.530 --> 00:39:41.959
Angela Nixon in Florida is only 14% chance to win,
1736
00:39:42.250 --> 00:39:43.649
the biggest underdog on this board,
1737
00:39:43.929 --> 00:39:44.010
uh,
1738
00:39:44.020 --> 00:39:47.020
59% chance for Jackson to win in Maine.
1739
00:39:47.419 --> 00:39:47.790
Um,
1740
00:39:47.870 --> 00:39:49.179
a little rise there for,
1741
00:39:49.229 --> 00:39:49.739
um,
1742
00:39:49.909 --> 00:39:50.300
uh,
1743
00:39:50.449 --> 00:39:51.209
Susan Collins.
1744
00:39:51.459 --> 00:39:51.669
Uh,
1745
00:39:51.899 --> 00:39:53.510
Velejas in California,
1746
00:39:53.540 --> 00:39:56.070
22 is at 91% chance to,
1747
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to win.
1748
00:39:57.040 --> 00:40:00.750
Rutanel in Colorado 8th is the 85% favorite.
1749
00:40:01.110 --> 00:40:01.479
Lawrence,
1750
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73% favorite
1751
00:40:03.070 --> 00:40:03.590
in Michigan,
1752
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7.
1753
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Pearson,
1754
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who just got some awesome hair,
1755
00:40:06.989 --> 00:40:07.909
I gotta say right now.
1756
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I mean,
1757
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I would vote for him just for the hair,
1758
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a 19% favorite to win in Tennessee,
1759
00:40:11.669 --> 00:40:12.280
9.
1760
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Dunlap,
1761
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45%,
1762
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also great hair.
1763
00:40:15.969 --> 00:40:16.169
Uh,
1764
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for Dunlap,
1765
00:40:16.810 --> 00:40:17.270
look at that.
1766
00:40:17.449 --> 00:40:18.149
That's really nice.
1767
00:40:18.530 --> 00:40:18.689
Uh,
1768
00:40:18.760 --> 00:40:20.129
45% favorite in Maine,
1769
00:40:20.770 --> 00:40:21.050
too,
1770
00:40:21.290 --> 00:40:21.889
but he's bald,
1771
00:40:21.929 --> 00:40:22.169
by the way,
1772
00:40:22.250 --> 00:40:23.320
for those listening on podcast.
1773
00:40:23.610 --> 00:40:23.899
Um,
1774
00:40:24.090 --> 00:40:24.169
uh,
1775
00:40:24.250 --> 00:40:24.889
for stag,
1776
00:40:25.010 --> 00:40:25.870
uh,
1777
00:40:25.929 --> 00:40:26.389
Montana,
1778
00:40:26.520 --> 00:40:27.000
First District,
1779
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44% favorite,
1780
00:40:28.060 --> 00:40:29.370
and Brooks in Pennsylvania 7th,
1781
00:40:29.429 --> 00:40:30.449
and 88% favorite.
1782
00:40:30.610 --> 00:40:31.969
You see this kind of all over the board,
1783
00:40:32.169 --> 00:40:34.429
a couple of real long shots and Nixon and Pearson,
1784
00:40:34.929 --> 00:40:36.570
but this will be an interesting way to look back.
1785
00:40:37.000 --> 00:40:37.310
At,
1786
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uh,
1787
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whether progressivism had a big night or not.
1788
00:40:40.770 --> 00:40:42.600
If you're getting a lot of these people who are in,
1789
00:40:42.719 --> 00:40:42.800
you know,
1790
00:40:42.850 --> 00:40:45.129
if you're getting 19 and 14% favorites to win,
1791
00:40:45.169 --> 00:40:46.449
it's a big night for progressivism.
1792
00:40:46.729 --> 00:40:50.050
If they're only winning the races and maybe they lose an 85% favorite,
1793
00:40:50.409 --> 00:40:52.080
maybe the opposite story should be told.
1794
00:40:52.330 --> 00:40:53.729
It's going to be a very interesting thing.
1795
00:40:53.770 --> 00:40:55.810
I will say looking at this as far as value goes.
1796
00:40:57.510 --> 00:40:59.449
Both Minnesota and Oregon are just,
1797
00:40:59.610 --> 00:41:00.850
they're so tempting to me.
1798
00:41:01.020 --> 00:41:01.129
Uh,
1799
00:41:01.250 --> 00:41:01.929
they're so tempting.
1800
00:41:01.949 --> 00:41:03.209
In a blue year,
1801
00:41:03.399 --> 00:41:05.469
it's just so hard to believe
1802
00:41:05.810 --> 00:41:06.149
that
1803
00:41:06.439 --> 00:41:10.030
voters in Minnesota and Oregon would pick the Republican.
1804
00:41:10.399 --> 00:41:10.530
Again,
1805
00:41:10.610 --> 00:41:12.570
like Peggy Flanagan is at 83%.
1806
00:41:12.649 --> 00:41:14.189
That's a nice profit for a week.
1807
00:41:14.610 --> 00:41:16.520
You're talking about basically 20% profit,
1808
00:41:16.770 --> 00:41:16.959
uh,
1809
00:41:16.969 --> 00:41:17.830
in a week
1810
00:41:18.040 --> 00:41:20.409
if you were to go that direction with Flanagan.
1811
00:41:20.899 --> 00:41:21.739
But you look at Flanagan,
1812
00:41:21.860 --> 00:41:22.889
she's just an oddball,
1813
00:41:22.939 --> 00:41:23.100
man,
1814
00:41:23.219 --> 00:41:24.800
like she dresses like a weirdo,
1815
00:41:24.860 --> 00:41:25.280
uh,
1816
00:41:25.500 --> 00:41:25.989
I know,
1817
00:41:26.260 --> 00:41:26.449
I,
1818
00:41:26.659 --> 00:41:27.580
and then Michelle Tafoya,
1819
00:41:28.090 --> 00:41:28.290
who's,
1820
00:41:28.330 --> 00:41:28.500
you know,
1821
00:41:28.699 --> 00:41:28.820
again,
1822
00:41:28.899 --> 00:41:29.419
it's unfair,
1823
00:41:29.540 --> 00:41:31.889
she's been a television personality for a long time.
1824
00:41:32.100 --> 00:41:33.500
She comes off as very normal,
1825
00:41:33.679 --> 00:41:34.600
very relatable.
1826
00:41:35.010 --> 00:41:38.010
But can a Republican win in Minnesota in this climate?
1827
00:41:38.290 --> 00:41:39.489
Same thing happening over in,
1828
00:41:39.530 --> 00:41:40.270
uh,
1829
00:41:40.330 --> 00:41:40.530
you know,
1830
00:41:40.679 --> 00:41:41.530
a little bit different dynamic,
1831
00:41:41.570 --> 00:41:43.090
with the Oregon governor's race,
1832
00:41:43.129 --> 00:41:45.010
which is one of my bigger positions,
1833
00:41:45.350 --> 00:41:45.530
uh,
1834
00:41:45.610 --> 00:41:47.409
on Tina Kottek to win there,
1835
00:41:47.489 --> 00:41:48.689
but the polling has been very,
1836
00:41:48.800 --> 00:41:49.350
very close
1837
00:41:49.850 --> 00:41:51.189
for someone who's in that position,
1838
00:41:51.250 --> 00:41:51.649
I will say,
1839
00:41:51.689 --> 00:41:51.810
so.
1840
00:41:52.185 --> 00:41:53.014
That's where we stand right now.
1841
00:41:53.054 --> 00:41:54.614
Our candidates today is 11 different people.
1842
00:41:54.675 --> 00:41:56.034
We're gonna keep track of these people
1843
00:41:56.135 --> 00:41:56.334
and,
1844
00:41:56.375 --> 00:41:58.155
and revisit this after the election,
1845
00:41:58.534 --> 00:41:58.665
uh,
1846
00:41:58.695 --> 00:41:58.965
to say,
1847
00:41:59.054 --> 00:41:59.175
hey,
1848
00:41:59.254 --> 00:42:02.435
how did the Socialists actually do by their own standards they set
1849
00:42:02.975 --> 00:42:03.514
beforehand
1850
00:42:03.935 --> 00:42:04.735
rather than the,
1851
00:42:04.814 --> 00:42:04.975
you know,
1852
00:42:05.054 --> 00:42:06.435
the spin room afterward.
1853
00:42:06.695 --> 00:42:08.135
So we'll follow that closely as well.
1854
00:42:08.254 --> 00:42:08.834
Back in a second.
1855
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I have over 350 positions on prediction markets,
1856
00:42:22.810 --> 00:42:24.540
the majority of them probably about
1857
00:42:24.699 --> 00:42:26.280
the election that's gonna end up in a week.
1858
00:42:26.350 --> 00:42:27.020
And then I'm gonna have a lot,
1859
00:42:27.070 --> 00:42:27.409
uh,
1860
00:42:27.540 --> 00:42:29.350
a much lighter diet.
1861
00:42:29.750 --> 00:42:30.060
Of the,
1862
00:42:30.070 --> 00:42:30.350
uh,
1863
00:42:30.360 --> 00:42:30.469
of,
1864
00:42:30.570 --> 00:42:31.229
of physicians,
1865
00:42:31.310 --> 00:42:33.729
but all of them are up on PredictableShow.com.
1866
00:42:33.830 --> 00:42:34.530
If you wanna go there,
1867
00:42:34.909 --> 00:42:34.989
uh,
1868
00:42:35.070 --> 00:42:36.070
you'd be a premium subscriber.
1869
00:42:36.110 --> 00:42:38.189
You can see all of my picks when I make them.
1870
00:42:38.429 --> 00:42:38.540
Uh,
1871
00:42:38.590 --> 00:42:40.830
you get a nice advance of that before we really ever,
1872
00:42:40.949 --> 00:42:42.889
most of the time even talk about them on the air.
1873
00:42:43.229 --> 00:42:43.310
Uh,
1874
00:42:43.389 --> 00:42:44.750
and if you're someone who trades markets,
1875
00:42:44.790 --> 00:42:46.229
you're gonna find great value,
1876
00:42:46.459 --> 00:42:46.629
uh,
1877
00:42:46.659 --> 00:42:47.649
in this election.
1878
00:42:47.989 --> 00:42:48.110
Look,
1879
00:42:48.189 --> 00:42:49.590
there is money to be made on this election.
1880
00:42:49.709 --> 00:42:50.610
We're gonna make some of it.
1881
00:42:50.889 --> 00:42:51.110
And I,
1882
00:42:51.149 --> 00:42:51.260
I,
1883
00:42:51.350 --> 00:42:52.120
I wanna make sure.
1884
00:42:52.669 --> 00:42:55.330
I wanna try to put ourselves in a position where we're going to be positive,
1885
00:42:55.340 --> 00:42:55.530
uh,
1886
00:42:55.550 --> 00:42:55.929
for,
1887
00:42:55.949 --> 00:42:56.219
uh,
1888
00:42:56.229 --> 00:42:57.070
this election cycle.
1889
00:42:57.149 --> 00:42:57.629
I think we're,
1890
00:42:57.750 --> 00:42:57.870
you know,
1891
00:42:58.209 --> 00:42:58.350
I,
1892
00:42:58.459 --> 00:43:00.530
I did a little analysis of this on my own,
1893
00:43:00.659 --> 00:43:00.929
uh,
1894
00:43:00.939 --> 00:43:01.689
positions
1895
00:43:01.949 --> 00:43:02.729
over the weekend.
1896
00:43:03.010 --> 00:43:04.489
About 70% of,
1897
00:43:04.590 --> 00:43:05.689
of where we are,
1898
00:43:05.699 --> 00:43:06.399
are up right now.
1899
00:43:06.469 --> 00:43:08.870
There's a bunch that are around even from where I bought them.
1900
00:43:09.290 --> 00:43:11.149
Few that are down that make me worried,
1901
00:43:11.389 --> 00:43:11.510
uh,
1902
00:43:11.590 --> 00:43:13.790
but we're gonna look at that and on election night,
1903
00:43:13.870 --> 00:43:15.189
we're gonna have a massive live stream.
1904
00:43:15.350 --> 00:43:18.870
Gonna be hours and hours and hours and hours as long as my voice can hold up.
1905
00:43:19.750 --> 00:43:23.060
And it will be us live trading these markets together,
1906
00:43:23.479 --> 00:43:24.610
talking about these markets,
1907
00:43:24.800 --> 00:43:26.159
analyzing the election results,
1908
00:43:26.280 --> 00:43:27.459
doing all the things
1909
00:43:27.679 --> 00:43:29.510
that I think will bring value to you.
1910
00:43:29.840 --> 00:43:30.070
Um,
1911
00:43:30.120 --> 00:43:32.860
we will have a special pre-show as well for,
1912
00:43:32.879 --> 00:43:33.070
uh,
1913
00:43:33.080 --> 00:43:34.199
premium subscribers only.
1914
00:43:34.280 --> 00:43:36.510
So if you have specific questions about your markets,
1915
00:43:36.790 --> 00:43:38.800
we're gonna try to answer every single one of those.
1916
00:43:39.100 --> 00:43:39.479
So,
1917
00:43:39.600 --> 00:43:40.389
on election day,
1918
00:43:40.600 --> 00:43:41.239
sometime during the day,
1919
00:43:41.300 --> 00:43:42.199
we'll have a pre-show.
1920
00:43:42.560 --> 00:43:45.600
We'll join you right around the time when polls are opening.
1921
00:43:45.929 --> 00:43:46.219
Um,
1922
00:43:46.300 --> 00:43:47.000
for the day,
1923
00:43:47.219 --> 00:43:48.899
and we'll be trading those markets live.
1924
00:43:49.100 --> 00:43:50.739
We're also gonna give you tons of resources and
1925
00:43:50.739 --> 00:43:53.250
there are tons of resources already at predictableShow.com.
1926
00:43:53.300 --> 00:43:54.679
We're in the middle of doing our packet,
1927
00:43:54.929 --> 00:43:55.169
uh,
1928
00:43:55.340 --> 00:43:55.620
for,
1929
00:43:55.699 --> 00:43:56.010
um,
1930
00:43:56.419 --> 00:43:58.500
election night and to kind of get you ready for that.
1931
00:43:59.590 --> 00:44:02.169
When you kind of look at the way
1932
00:44:02.389 --> 00:44:03.610
all of this plays out,
1933
00:44:04.429 --> 00:44:05.429
what you're gonna see,
1934
00:44:05.550 --> 00:44:06.129
I think,
1935
00:44:06.429 --> 00:44:07.409
is um
1936
00:44:07.669 --> 00:44:08.489
a real.
1937
00:44:09.820 --> 00:44:11.969
A collection of tools that I don't think have ever been available anywhere,
1938
00:44:12.020 --> 00:44:12.679
frankly.
1939
00:44:13.219 --> 00:44:14.239
If you want to
1940
00:44:14.439 --> 00:44:14.979
win and,
1941
00:44:15.020 --> 00:44:17.879
and profit on prediction markets when it comes to elections,
1942
00:44:18.300 --> 00:44:20.520
I don't know that there's ever been a better place to go
1943
00:44:20.830 --> 00:44:22.340
than predictableShow.com.
1944
00:44:22.379 --> 00:44:22.939
And I think you'll,
1945
00:44:23.020 --> 00:44:23.209
uh,
1946
00:44:23.370 --> 00:44:24.469
if you go there and you're a member,
1947
00:44:24.540 --> 00:44:25.889
I think you'll understand that
1948
00:44:26.020 --> 00:44:28.500
by the time we get there because there's going to be a ton,
1949
00:44:28.739 --> 00:44:30.840
we already have a ton of tools up there for you to use.
1950
00:44:31.310 --> 00:44:31.510
Uh,
1951
00:44:31.879 --> 00:44:32.600
election models,
1952
00:44:32.840 --> 00:44:34.820
all stuff that's fun like Senate Fantasy,
1953
00:44:35.159 --> 00:44:35.629
all the way to,
1954
00:44:35.760 --> 00:44:36.139
you know,
1955
00:44:36.280 --> 00:44:36.399
uh,
1956
00:44:36.459 --> 00:44:37.270
a million other options.
1957
00:44:37.320 --> 00:44:38.000
So go check it out.
1958
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PredictableShow.com.
1959
00:44:39.280 --> 00:44:42.860
This is a great time to join PredictableShow.com.
1960
00:44:43.110 --> 00:44:44.310
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1961
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We'll talk to you tomorrow.