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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Flite Influence | Allen Jackson Now | March 31, 2026

Good evening and welcome to nashville.
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I'm alan jackson.
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You know, politicians who say
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They don't look at the polls, they're like actors
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Who say they never look at their nielsen ratings.
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Polls are the politician's report cards,
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And what they measure has a lot to do
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With shaping the direction of the country.
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They're the go to tool for influential who are trying
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To move the american people in one direction or the other.
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But they're not a perfect science.
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For example, a theoretical poll that asked,
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Do you want to live in a town where there's very little crime?
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Or instead the question is, would you prefer
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To live in a town that used to have a lot of crime
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But has since been cleaned up by ice agents assigned by
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President trump?
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Well, i'm pretty sure that once the ice agents
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And the president are mentioned in the question,
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Those poll numbers would change,
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Even though they both present a safe city goal.
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Well, here's another example.
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Would you like to have
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Your income taxes reduced by 10% and keep that money
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In your own bank account?
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Or perhaps this version.
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Would you like the doj's budget cutters to find the money
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That's being used to take care of immigrants,
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Social services, and health care
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And use that money to lower your taxes?
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Well, in this case, the legacy media has brainwashed
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Much of america
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About those being bad and immigrants deserving help.
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So predicting this poll outcome, it's pretty easy.
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Polling questions can be easily manipulated to drive
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Whatever answers the pollsters
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Or the people who hire them want.
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Some people answering might not even think about the question,
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But when they hear key words like ice
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Or dodge or president trump, they give a negative response.
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Well, all of which opens up important discussion
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About what's the best way to determine
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What the majority of the american people
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Actually want for the future of this country.
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Now, it seems to me that there are waves
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Of deception that just crash over our lives in this season.
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And to make matters worse,
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Certain individuals in leadership
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Positions took a supposedly intellectual elite approach,
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Forcing their absurd beliefs
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Into the lives of everyday americans.
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You know, i know i've used this reference
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Before regarding the theater of the absurd,
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And we've seen lots of releases for sure.
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The theater of the absurd has been saying
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For quite an extended time that there's
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A limitless number of genders determined by how you feel
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Today.
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I had a meeting with a psychiatrist from new york
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That works in institutions there, and their induction forms
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Had more than 30 choices for gender.
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That's absurd.
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We've had men competing with women
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In athletic competition at the highest levels.
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During the last summer olympic games,
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There were men and women in the same boxing ring.
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How can you say to young boys it's wrong to use
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Physical violence against a girl
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And then show them the olympics where they're fighting one
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Another, punching one another in the face?
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That is absurd.
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Well, thankfully, the international olympic
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Community has come to their senses.
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Recently, they passed a policy that male athletes
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Are not allowed to compete against women in the 2028
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Olympic games.
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The policy also
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Identified advantages men have over women in athletics.
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They found that males have advantages
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In running and swimming events,
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And throwing and jumping events, and advantages
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Exceeding 100% in events that involve explosive power,
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Such as collision lifting and punching.
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Sports.
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Who knew?
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It's common sense.
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So what changed for the ioc between 2024 and now?
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Well, i think some credit for this ioc
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Policy change must go to our president
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For being unafraid to speak up and state the obvious
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That men should not be allowed to compete in women's sports.
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President trump also signed the keeping men
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Out of women's sports executive order last year.
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The administration recently sued minnesota
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For its continued policies of allowing biological males
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To compete in girls sports and giving them access
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To the female locker room and bathroom spaces.
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In another story, one female athlete on the san jose state
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University volleyball team, she talked about the trauma
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She experienced when, upon arriving at the university,
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She was guided
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To living with a certain room of girls on her volleyball team,
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Only to discover that one of those girls was actually a man.
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When she approached her coach about the issue,
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Her coach cursed at her, called her a bigot
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And a hateful human being who was ruining the program.
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Upon finding out, the trump
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Administration has warned san jose state university,
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I'm grateful that the administration
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Is taking action against these absurd practices,
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And i'm grateful
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That the international olympic committee has reversed course.
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But honestly, i'm appalled that the catalyst for change
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Is not coming from pulpits and pews of churches.
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It's unnerving, and the lack of courage
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And the lack of clarity coming from the christian community.
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Christians who work in health care
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Industry, who are trained in science,
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They have voices to speak up.
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They know that every cell
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In our body tells us, whether we're male or female,
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That there are fundamental differences between us.
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It's appalling that christian attorneys
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Don't speak out loudly when someone like angie jackson,
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At her supreme court confirmation hearing,
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Refuses to say what a woman is.
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If you're that confused,
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You shouldn't be on the supreme court.
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We must use our voices when we see something
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That is patently absurd.
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We can't be silent and act like
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We don't notice the absurdity that we've been subjected to.
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We become so intimidated by the pressure of the mob mentality
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That we won't speak the truth, that we all know and understand.
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If you've been told that you should not allow
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Your christianity to be a prominent part
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Of your professional life, it's a lie.
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As christians, if we will use our voices,
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We can give some courage to the general public.
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Don't leave it up to a politician to do that.
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It's our assignment to be truth tellers.
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Let's have the courage to lead with our faith,
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And to let it be a prominent part in both our personal
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And our professional lives.
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With all that up for discussion, we're going to be joined
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By a world class pollster who makes it his job
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To get to the truth wherever it leads.
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Stay tuned, because scott rasmussen
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Will be joining us right after this break.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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Well, we're joined now
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By one of the premier pollsters in the country.
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Best, because he gets the absolute truth
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About how america feels and a country
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That's being pulled in different directions.
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Scott rasmussen, welcome to our program.
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Great to be with you today.
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Before we get into issues, can you explain to our viewers
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What the elite 1% refers to
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And what the narrow group does in this country
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That so often runs contrary to the wishes of the masses?
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Yeah.
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So we've done a lot of research on lots of different topics
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Trying to identify who sets the narrative.
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Who leads the nation astray.
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And there were three groups consistently in our polls
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That were out of touch with everybody else.
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One, the biggest gap people with a postgraduate degree
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Not not a bachelor's, but a postgraduate degree.
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They had views that were wildly different
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From most other americans.
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Second, people who make a lot of money
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And third, people who live in densely
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Populated urban areas, places like manhattan.
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We had a theory that maybe if you combined all three of
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These, we'd find something really interesting because,
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A post-grad who goes to live in manhattan might have different
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Views and values than a post-grad that came here
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To live in mckinney, texas, or somewhere else.
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In fact, we found the results were stunning.
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This group
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And it's about 1% of americans a very influential elite,
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1% think the rest of us have too much individual freedom.
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They think
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That, you know, on a whole range of issues.
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They think we agree with them, but we don't.
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And perhaps the core gap
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Is this group overwhelmingly trusts the federal government
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And is frustrated that we just don't all go along with it.
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One of the key parts of your research
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Is that you're following real data,
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Rather than just hundreds of different opinions.
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Tell us about the data you see versus all the other noise.
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Well, one thing you have to understand about public opinion
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Only about 8% of voters talk politics every day.
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So most of the people aren't super engaged in the debate.
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If you call and ask them out of the blue a question.
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They'll give you an answer.
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But it's not something they thought deeply about.
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I like to talk about the deeper currents of public opinion.
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If you imagine a mighty river and and there's a storm and,
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You know, there's all kinds of splashing
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And chaos at the top of the river
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Where the rain is splashing down.
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Those are like the opinions on the day to day issues.
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But if you go a little bit deeper,
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If you go a foot or so beneath the surface,
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You don't even know it's raining out
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And the current is all moving in the same direction.
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And generally what we find is the american people,
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The overwhelming majority of the american people, continue
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To embrace our founding ideals of freedom, equality
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And self-governance.
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They want our government to be responsive to those ideals.
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And they're frustrated that things aren't working out.
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And this is where you get
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Into those opinions that cause some problems for us.
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Most republicans have come to believe
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That most democrats don't love the country.
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And guess what?
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Most democrats think most republicans
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Don't love the country.
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They're getting their news from different places.
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They're hearing all that splashing around on the surface,
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And they feel they're failed to realize that.
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In fact, there's
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An awful lot of common ground, among the american people.
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It is the gap between that elite 1%
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And the rest of the nation that creates the chaos.
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Well, now i'm curious
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If we have these core beliefs that we share.
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How do we find a way to have dialog?
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Because right now there's so much distrust.
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We don't talk to one another.
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You know, you're absolutely right on that.
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I talk in the book about two midwestern women
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That i've known
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That they've known each other their whole lives.
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They have all these common values.
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But the one thing they can't talk about is politics, because,
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They're in different phases of life.
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They're in different political and news ecosystems.
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And just talking about politics will just,
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Will threaten their friendship. and unfortunately,
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That's the way we are as a nation right now.
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We need to start by recognizing, first of all,
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That the problems and the polarization we face
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Are not caused by or because of donald trump.
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They've been around for a long time
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And been growing for decades before anybody ever heard of the
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Current president.
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Second thing we need to recognize
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Is we're not really a 5050 nation.
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We're what i call a ten, 1080 nation.
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There are 10% on the left who are engaged
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In a bitter war with 10% on the right,
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And the 80% really just hate all the fighting.
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They're trying to live their
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Lives, live according to their own values,
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Treat others with respect, and they want to stay out of the
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Political fighting.
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The ten percenters on each side are pushing
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All of these people in the middle
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To choose to pick sides, to think that the world
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Will come to an end if their team doesn't win.
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And that's just not the way it is.
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So we need to start to lift up
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And recognize that common ground.
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It's something that has been true for our nation
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For a long time,
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But it's something that we just have lost sight of.
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Well, that's a note of hope.
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The wall street journal describes
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You as a key player in the contact sport of politics.
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What's it like when you tell a politician
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The facts versus what they sometimes
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Just want to hear to confirm their previous impressions?
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Well, every politician and every client is a little
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Bit different.
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Some of them
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Like to hear the truth
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Even if they don't like it, because then it
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Lets them gauge their response.
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But a lot of times they just say,
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No, no, i talk to a lot of other people
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And that's not what i'm hearing.
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And unfortunately, that's a part of the problem
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We face as well.
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You know, one of the things i got started doing my polling
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For the term limits movement, in the late 80s and early 90s.
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And this was an issue just like we hear about some issues today
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That was supported by 80% of voters.
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And congress wanted nothing to do with it.
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When there is
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Something that the public wants, but it clashes
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With the needs of people in the political bubble,
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The voters will always lose.
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And that's something that we need to address.
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One of the ways i think we have to address that
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Is by recognizing that we need decision making closer to home.
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There's 519,000 state
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And local elected officials in america today.
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Everything from a governor or a state legislator down
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To a city council member or school board member.
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We want all of them to take a greater role in governing
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And making decisions for our community.
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And that means fighting
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To take a little bit of a back from the federal government.
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Well, let's get to some issues.
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First of the incursion into iran,
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According to the media, there's a split in the country,
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Supporters on the side of president
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Trump, israel and the idea of shutting down
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Their nuclear efforts and their terrorism.
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On the other side, those who wish the u.s.
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Had never started dropping bombs in iran.
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I don't think anybody wants war,
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But they also don't want terrorists running around
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Or nuclear weapons in the hands of bad people.
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So what are you seeing?
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You know, this is a great example of what i mentioned
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Earlier.
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Most people aren't sitting around
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Talking about this every single day.
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It's a big issue.
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People are aware of it.
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And yes, people hate war.
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They don't want to be fighting.
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They don't want to have u.s.
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Ground troops in right now.
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About 35 to 40% of voters say they support these attacks.
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And what's going on a majority are opposed.
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At the same time, they really recognize that,
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Iran is an evil country.
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It's a force for evil in the world.
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And they'd like to find a way to eliminate that.
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So what does that leave us in public opinion?
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It's really pretty simple.
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If this fighting goes on for a long time,
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If we're still talking about it at the end of this year.
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It is going to be a very unpopular war.
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Most americans thought we could get in and out fairly quickly.
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If it does end quickly,
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And if it ends with some kind of positive result, people
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Are going to be very supportive of the fact that we did it.
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Even if it's a little messy along the way.
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Well, scott, we need to take a short break.
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But as we do, i'd like to mention
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Scott's upcoming new book.
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It's called out of touch the elite
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1% and the battle for america's soul.
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We'll be right back.
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We'll be right back.
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We're back with the legendary pollster scott rasmussen.
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Scott, let's pick up where we left off.
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The other big issue, which is always an issue, is the economy.
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Do the american people understand
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That while gas prices have gone up, they'll also come down once
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The strait of hormuz is open
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And the oil traders see things settling down a bit?
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You know, most people don't think that far ahead.
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It is the economy is the driving issue.
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And right now that's really bad news for republicans.
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We track every other week a question about how do you feel
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About your personal finances?
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Are they getting better or worse?
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And this is the single most important political question
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You can ask about the economy.
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You know, people may have opinions
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About the economy overall, but their personal finances,
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That's where you hit close to home.
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And the reason that gas prices play such a big role in
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This is half of all americans live paycheck to paycheck.
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What that means is, well, most of their income goes
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To either rent or a mortgage.
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And then you have car payments and insurance payments.
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You've got a limited amount of disposable income each week
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When the price of gas goes up.
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You have less money to spend on groceries.
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When the price of groceries goes up,
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You have less to spend on gas.
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It's a direct impact on life.
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So what we see right now, since the fighting began, people
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Have become
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Much more pessimistic about their personal finances.
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They are now as pessimistic as they were when,
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President biden was in office.
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If you were to if the election were held today,
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The republicans
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Would have an absolutely horrible night.
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The democrats would have
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A good chance of winning the senate.
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Having said that,
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If the fighting stops and gas prices begin to go down,
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It'll take a few months before
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People begin to really believe it.
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You know, when you get bad news,
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You you react right away when you get good news.
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Well, you're kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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If the if the price of gas starts going down steadily
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Between now and election day
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Or between a month from now on election day, that will ease
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A lot of the pain we're seeing on perceptions of the economy.
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Well, the supreme court
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Has ruled in favor of a christian woman
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Who'd been barred from counseling children under 18
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When they were considering a sex change operation.
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The court said that sort of counseling
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And giving advice on human identity, behavior and prayer
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Cannot be banned, especially when the young people
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Come to her to question and share what they're thinking.
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That's the same court that said it was okay for a web
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Designer to turn down creating wedding products
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For a gay couple that was getting married.
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So my question is, what are you seeing about
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The issue that makes regular headlines?
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Boys and girls sports.
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When you talk about boys and girls sports,
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The far left has picked up
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What i call the a group of 20% issues.
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And this is one of them.
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These are issues that fewer than 20% of americans support.
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Overwhelmingly, people believe that biological males
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Should not be allowed to compete in women's sports.
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They should not be allowed
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To enter a woman's locker room or restroom.
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And oh, by the way,
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More than seven out of ten voters say that if a man
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If a biological male won a trophy,
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He should be stripped of that title
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And it should be given to the woman,
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Who was displaced because he was competing.
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This is one of those issues is very much common sense.
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People don't want to be,
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Mean spirited to somebody who's going through difficult times.
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They.
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And if you're an adult and you want to change
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Your gender and you want to have surgery,
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Well, when you're an adult, you can make your choices.
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But for children especially, they want to be very protective.
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Scott, where can people go to
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Hear your wisdom on a regular basis each week?
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Well, we have, the neapolitan news.org.
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It's named after joe neapolitan, a truly legendary pollster,
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Worked for john kennedy and a number of others.
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And, gave me some advice when i was a lot younger.
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So the neapolitan news.org is the best place.
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And also on twitter at scott w rasmussen,
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When you started this career, did you think you'd ever do it
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Long enough to be called a legend?
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When i started this career, i didn't know if i'd be doing it
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Five years later.
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So it's one of those things you just keep going.
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Well, his book is called out of touch the elite 1%
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And the battle for america's soul.
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We'd love to have you back as we get closer
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To voting in the midterms this fall.
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I will look forward to it.
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Well, in a moment, your emails and my responses.
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It's always a treat to hear from so many of you.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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Just a quick reminder.
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If you ever miss a live broadcast,
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You can always go to aj. now.com.
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There's a full archive of the programs there.
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You can watch them at your leisure.
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They're easy to share with a friend.
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Thanks for your emails. they're always a highlight.
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Sherri from washington emailed.
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Representative beth van dyne is speaking the truth.
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The senate
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Should not be able to leave before they do their jobs.
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We're paying them for nothing.
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Tsa not getting paid is not just disrespectful, but a hardship.
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It is dangerous.
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How many more people must suffer before they get their act
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Together and work for the people?
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Sherri, i agree with your take.
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Congress, our congressional leaders
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Seem to have lost sight of that.
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Their assignment is to work on behalf
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Of the american people
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And stop fighting over their petty policies.
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It's beyond frustrating.
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If we will pray, i believe god can initiate change.
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Laurie from kissimmee, florida.
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My idea to help tsa agents is for every person
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Traveling through airports during this time to tip them $1.
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We tip better than that at restaurants
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For the hundreds of people who go through each day,
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$1 from each person or family would help them for a while.
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Well, let's add one thing to that, laurie.
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If we can deduct those tips from our income tax,
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Then i think you're on to something.
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It's disgraceful what's been going on.
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And i pray that the leadership in washington
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Comes to their senses and makes a change very soon.
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I want to thank you for spending a few moments
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Of your day with us.
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You know,
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I often say
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God is moving in the earth, but i believe he moves
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In response to the prayers of his people.
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Let's decide to be a group of those people
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Inviting god into the midst of our lives and our world.
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I believe the outcomes will be a blessing to all of us.
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Thank you for your time.
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God bless you and have a good evening.
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