School Closures, Salem’s ICE Controversy & Voters Ready for Change? – Newsmakers At Noon 10/15/26

Well, since you brought that up, you know, we're talking about voting and all the stuff and everything that we're seeing out there.

We talk a lot about polls.

I don't take polls too seriously anymore.

They always sort of underperform for Republicans and overperform.

And there's a lot of blackpilling and a lot of gaslighting and a lot of attempts to demoralize.

But there is a new national poll.

And this one is disturbing because it kind of goes beyond who you're going to vote for.

It's the new APNORC.

And what does that stand for? I didn't put that in my.

It's an acronym.

NORC.

And it finds widespread dissatisfaction with Washington.

And we're seeing that on both sides.

I know I'm frustrated from a conservative side with sort of do nothing Republicans at the federal level.

The Democrats, I mean, either they're wildly crazy, wackadoo, socialist, communist, progressive Marxists, or they're your average rank and file Democrat who don't realize that their party's been taken over.

But they're kind of looking at.

Gas prices, diesel prices, all the metrics that you kind of hope have come down by the midterms are stubbornly not coming down.

My hope is that people will go, this too shall pass.

It is temporary.

I'm not going to be, because I'm ticked off about gas prices, going to vote for communists, you know, the ones who shut the pipelines down.

So I'm hoping we have sense and sanity to go, this is temporary.

Let's keep the sane people who we may not like a lot, but we like them better than these guys.

Well, I sit here and I go, we're in Oregon where I believe what we have five representatives, four of which are Democrats already.

So if you want to take out your frustrations, maybe it's take them out with those guys and say, hey, what have you done in your 30 years in office to to make things better for Oregonians?

Well, not quite 30, but Merkley has got a challenger in David Brock Smith, who's out there.

Well, since you brought that up, you know, we're talking about voting and all the stuff and everything that we're seeing out there.

We talk a lot about polls.

I don't take polls too seriously anymore.

They always sort of underperform for Republicans and overperform.

And there's a lot of blackpilling and a lot of gaslighting and a lot of attempts to demoralize.

But there is a new national poll.

And this one is disturbing because it kind of goes beyond who you're going to vote for.

It's the new APNORC.

And what does that stand for? I didn't put that in my.

It's an acronym.

NORC.

And it finds widespread dissatisfaction with Washington.

And we're seeing that on both sides.

I know I'm frustrated from a conservative side with sort of do nothing Republicans at the federal level.

The Democrats, I mean, either they're wildly crazy, wackadoo, socialist, communist, progressive Marxists, or they're your average rank and file Democrat who don't realize that their party's been taken over.

But they're kind of looking at.

Gas prices, diesel prices, all the metrics that you kind of hope have come down by the midterms are stubbornly not coming down.

My hope is that people will go, this too shall pass.

It is temporary.

I'm not going to be, because I'm ticked off about gas prices, going to vote for communists, you know, the ones who shut the pipelines down.

So I'm hoping we have sense and sanity to go, this is temporary.

Let's keep the sane people who we may not like a lot, but we like them better than these guys.

Well, I sit here and I go, we're in Oregon where I believe what we have five representatives, four of which are Democrats already.

So if you want to take out your frustrations, maybe it's take them out with those guys and say, hey, what have you done in your 30 years in office to to make things better for Oregonians?

Well, not quite 30, but Merkley has got a challenger in David Brock Smith, who's out there.