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Speaker 1: Six days now when they ran war, more Americans disapprove

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Speaker 1: of a dive on that one this morning with Kevin Burton.

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Speaker 1: Kevin with Crosstown Consulting here in Cincinnati. How are you, buddy,

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Speaker 1: pretty good by yourself. I'm doing fine. I'm doing fine. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: your basement's not the only thing underwater right now. So

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Speaker 1: latest poll numbers here, and this is impacting the midterm

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Speaker 1: all those things. Fox News pulling shows the most favorable

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Speaker 1: Like Obama, Obama didn't hurt him. Obama came he boo boom, Morain,

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Speaker 2: Those, and that's that's a.

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Speaker 3: Tall order because also fundraising for Democrats are lagging drastically

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Speaker 2: And the interesting thing.

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Speaker 1: Gotcha, if Kevin Burton is here, he's with Crosstown Consulting

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Speaker 1: in northern Kentucky. He's an upholster and political analyst talking

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Speaker 1: Trump is underwater on mainly with the you know, certainly

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Speaker 1: loses elections right there. And part of this problem, though,

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Speaker 1: is the messaging on Iran Kevin it's it's it's just incoherent.

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Speaker 2: Well a lot. I mean, you know, George W.

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Speaker 3: Bush spent a year laying out his case right for

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Speaker 3: the American people understand that if there is going to

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Speaker 3: that's the number one thing. You know, their messaging has

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Speaker 1: If this goes closer to November then March and it's

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Speaker 3: I mean, you don't have to be a political consultant

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Speaker 3: it's a non popular war, it's going to be good.

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Speaker 2: For the Democrats. It just is. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: You know, if it's a quick rip the mandate off,

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Speaker 2: But if if this.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Well I wanted to leave our discussion Kevin Burton,

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Speaker 1: because you're a friend. I wanted to leave you with

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Speaker 1: it were to a nice easy one to end the conversation.

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Speaker 1: Kevin Burton at Crosstown Consulting in Northern Kentucky.

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Speaker 2: Thanks again, brother be.

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Speaker 1: Will thank you for always all right, take care news

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Speaker 1: on the way at about five, the weather continues. We

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Speaker 1: got rain, rain and more rain, when will if we will,

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Speaker 1: and maybe will we get a break?

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Speaker 2: Who knows?

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Speaker 1: Full forecast seconds away, And we'll continue to follow. What's

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Speaker 1: interesting indicator of how things may go in right now

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Speaker 1: and God forbid we start going a well, we need to.

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Speaker 1: We need some expeditionary forces there, so they would call them.

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Speaker 1: You wonder how many people who voted for Trump who

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Speaker 1: I know quite a few people fall into that category.

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Speaker 1: A brief strike is fine, but dragging this thing out,

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Speaker 1: you're just absolutely bearing yourself. Scott's Flan shows seven hundred W.

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