Election Day

Yeah, and I think it also speaks to Mike Collins' failure to land any punches against Ossoff.

Each campaign typically at this point in the election cycle with Election Day looming, each campaign has been able to kind of land a few blows and bring their opponent's approval numbers down with negative attack ads.

And the most money that Collins has spent on attack ads appears to have been That ad with John Ossoff supposedly getting makeup put on him, that was a $2,000 campaign expense.

My secret theory is that was for somebody else in a campaign commercial for him.

I'm going to invite you when the Mercury Sun Kazemi happens.

It's on election day, November 4th, the Mercury Sun Kazemi.

I'm going to invite you.

What is it you really want? Right.

But more importantly, she's starting this big eight year cycle now.

On October 23rd, and then Mercury and the Sun are starting a cycle, which is a slightly different cycle.

And Mercury, of course, is meeting up with the Sun later, not at the zero degree, but he meets up on Election Day.

In the United States, November 4th.

I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

With less than two weeks until Election Day, Abdul El-Sayed's campaign in Michigan is the target of huge amounts of spending, and the race is more or less on a knife's edge.

Amid all this, El-Sayed has had some hugely viral moments lately, tangling with a MAGA plant over a question about the Muslim Brotherhood and battling with J.D. Vance over the Vice President's vile attacks on him.

We think El-Sayed is developing an interesting way of doing politics that seems attuned to the information wars of the Trump era.

Wisconsin alone has over 1800 different election officials.

So overall, there's around 6000 different election officials who are working together to run elections and They're in the run up now, just two weeks away, to making sure that we have free and fair elections on election day.

In terms of elected versus appointed, a bit over 60% of jurisdictions, whether that be county or municipality, still elect their election official.

So a minority of jurisdictions appoint But a majority of the most populous jurisdictions appoint their election officials.

If you're interested in learning more about this topic with real data, this is what I do.

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Did we lose Archon or is Archon still here? think we might have lost archon we'll all close this out then and i will say thank you on behalf of archon and myself for being here today oh there he is he's back thank you for being here today thank you for watching live those of you who joined us live we appreciate your questions for those of you who are watching it recorded thank you also we will record again and we will be live at 12 15 eastern time next tuesday as mentioned only two weeks away from election day very exciting we're probably going to stay in the election space for the next two weeks at least and we appreciate our production team and any final words argon

Yeah, just a huge thanks to Josh for your research.

So starting on Saturday, we've got like 20 days of Mercury moving backwards.

That's going to mean Election Day in the United States.

Mercury will be retrograde.

That just throws more challenges into the time.