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Speaker 1: It's Nightside with Dan Ray on w b Z, Boston's

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Speaker 2: All right, well, thank you very much, Cole, as we

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Speaker 2: head to our second hour here on Nightside, and I we're.

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Speaker 3: Going to talk tonight about what happened yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Yesterday was a bad day for Republicans nationwide. It was

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Speaker 2: a good day for Democrats. It was a good day

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Speaker 2: for Democratic socialists in New York City with Zorhan mum

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Speaker 2: Donnie winning the mayor Gracie's mansion. As they say in

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Speaker 2: New York. I want to talk about New York and

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Speaker 2: Virginia and New Jersey beginning at ten o'clock. I want

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Speaker 2: to focus on Boston right now and also Massachusetts. So

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Speaker 2: if you have had an interesting race in your community

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Speaker 2: that you worked on, and it doesn't have to be

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Speaker 2: a person running from mayor or city council or board

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Speaker 2: of aldermen or school committee. There was an interesting race

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Speaker 2: ballot question in Newton overnight Parking and as I understand,

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Speaker 2: that ballot question was decided there were there were a

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Speaker 2: lot of a lot of votes, but that was decided

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Speaker 2: by how many How many was the votel here? Yeah,

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Speaker 2: the yes votes came in at forty seven point seven percent.

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Speaker 2: The no votes were just a little bit more. Uh,

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Speaker 2: it was I think double digits. It was eighty four

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Speaker 2: talk I want to talk about a race that you

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Speaker 2: might have been interested in, maybe a race that you

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Speaker 2: Boston which was the biggest election here in Massachusetts. It

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Speaker 2: was a foregone result that once Josh Kraft withdrew that

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Speaker 2: the decision as to who would be the next mayor

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Speaker 2: of Boston was decided, was done. But here's a number

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Speaker 2: that really is discouraging to me and maybe it is

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Speaker 2: to you. Boston's a big city. We have now about

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Speaker 2: eight hundred thousand people in Boston. Now obviously not all

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Speaker 2: of them are registered to vote, but there were only

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Speaker 2: ninety five thousand, six hundred and ninety people who went

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Speaker 2: to the polls yesterday. Now, there was no doubt about

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Speaker 2: Mayor Wu would win reelection. She got a little over

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Speaker 2: ninety three percent of the vote. There was no other

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Speaker 2: I think Josh Kraft's name should have been left in

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Speaker 2: the ballot. There were five thousand and six ninety six

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Speaker 2: write ins, and I know some people were writing Mickey

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Speaker 3: But that was interesting.

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Speaker 2: Amongst the city councilors in Boston, the four at large

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Speaker 2: city councilors were returned to office. There actually was one

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Speaker 2: former city council of Frank Baker, who many people thought

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Speaker 2: might have snuck in, but he fared very badly. He

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Speaker 2: it wasn't even close. He had twenty eight thousand votes

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Speaker 2: and the fourth place finisher best at him by forty

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Speaker 2: three thousand votes. So best at him by fifteen thousand votes,

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Speaker 2: he had over forty three thousand votes. It was actually

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Speaker 2: about fifteen thousand, four hundred and fifty give or take.

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Speaker 2: We'll leave that. But all the incumbents of the at

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Speaker 2: large incumbents one of the seven the nine districts, excuse me,

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Speaker 2: in Boston, the seven of the districts the incumbents won.

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Speaker 2: A couple of the districts were really uncontested. There was

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Speaker 2: the council was uncontested. The only district that was open

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Speaker 2: was the district that Tanya Anderson. Fernandez or Fernandez Anderson,

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Speaker 2: excuse me, represented until she was indicted for taking some

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Speaker 2: going to to be succeeded by Minnear Culpepper, who I

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Speaker 2: believe is a reverend if I'm not mistaken. Very small

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Speaker 2: So I'd love to talk to people tonight who chose

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Speaker 2: of controversies. I'm sure that you know that you still

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Speaker 2: have the mass and cass crisis that has not been solved.

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Speaker 2: We have in Boston. There was some high profile terminations

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Speaker 2: in the Mayor's office, also in the Governor's office, but

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Speaker 2: primarily in the Mayor's office. Last spring, there were all

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Speaker 2: controversies about bike lanes in Boston. This controversies about mope

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Speaker 2: Some of the people who do food deliveries in Boston.

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Speaker 2: There was a controversy. The mayor got into a big

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Speaker 2: controversy dealing with a Franklin Park, which is always has

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Speaker 2: been a great location for members of the Dorchester Roxbury

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Speaker 2: hurt mayor WHOA. So I guess it is status quo

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Speaker 2: and maybe everybody in Boston is just really happy with

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Speaker 2: fact that everyone who's in office, no one was turned out,

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Speaker 2: everyone in office was returned to office. The only city

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Speaker 2: councilor that is no longer there is serving time in

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Speaker 2: federal prison, not a long sentence, but a short sentence.

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Speaker 2: But who wants to be a federal prison.

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Speaker 3: Nobody.

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Speaker 2: So I'd like to find out from you if you

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Speaker 2: exhilarated are you with the results. Certainly, if you're a mayor,

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Speaker 2: WU supporter, if you're a supporter of any of the

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Speaker 2: incumbents city councilors, your people must have won. But I'd

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Speaker 2: also like to talk to people who didn't vote. I'd

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Speaker 2: to exercise every opportunity, and I voted. There were some

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Speaker 2: I don't vote for people who are running unopposed unless

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Speaker 2: I know the person. I know they've really done a

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Speaker 2: good job. So I'd love to hear from you if

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Speaker 2: I'd really be interested and would love to know why

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Speaker 2: So I'm just going to open up the phone lines.

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Speaker 2: You don't have to live in Boston, if you live

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Speaker 2: says to the incumbents, well, maybe you don't have someone

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Speaker 2: on your AM dial. My name's Dan Ray. Let's talk

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Speaker 2: maybe might inspire people to vote in future elections. We'll

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Speaker 2: be back on nightside right after this very quick break.

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Speaker 2: My name's Dan Ray.

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Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on w BZ

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Speaker 3: Pard.

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Speaker 2: Now, if you're ashamed that you didn't vote yesterday, confession

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Speaker 2: why okay. I mean, they have made voting so easy

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Speaker 2: when I was working in television, because oftentimes on election

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Speaker 3: So that's the first thing that I'd like you to do.

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Speaker 2: Fess up if you didn't vote, tell me why. If

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Speaker 2: But if you don't vote, you can't make a difference.

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Speaker 2: So I'm not going to elect you.

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Speaker 3: I just want to find out why you voted. Oh,

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Speaker 2: Uh six one seven, two, five four ten thirty six

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Speaker 2: I will bet you that Linda voted yesterday.

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Speaker 4: I did, and two of but three people that I

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Speaker 3: Well, that should make you feel better.

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Speaker 3: I'm glad you got I'm calling.

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Speaker 4: I'm calling because I heard that Maine did not pass

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Speaker 4: the issue you had with needing an idea for voting.

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Speaker 4: So that's partially why I called into you today. And

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Speaker 2: Yeah, my understanding is that that balant question failed in Maine.

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Speaker 2: it has my address. And the gentleman who I was

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Speaker 2: I'm a little hard of hearing what street is that? Well,

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Speaker 2: it was perfect. I put the driver's license down. I said,

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Speaker 2: I don't have to see that. So there is a

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Speaker 2: Why would people in Maine vote against, you know, having

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Speaker 2: That's a great question. I think I did see that

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Speaker 4: I put it out there because I know people, you know,

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Speaker 3: Vote, which to me is is crazy.

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Speaker 2: Why would you not Maybe someone can tell me why

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Speaker 3: No, let me do this. I don't want to be

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Speaker 2: So what I'm looking for is did you vote yesterday?

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Speaker 3: But boy, you got you have.

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Speaker 2: To be discouraged when the when, the when the voter

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Speaker 3: And if you haven't voted, you really have nothing.

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Speaker 2: pretty good reason why your candidate doesn't win. Six one, seven, two, five, four,

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Speaker 2: doing a little Civics lesson. You have the right to vote.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of places around the world where that

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Speaker 2: Exercise that right. It's not it's a privilege, but it's

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Speaker 2: more than that. It's right. Exercise your right to vote.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't matter whether you win or lose. You have

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Speaker 2: Let's get out of coming back on nightside.

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Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's News.

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Speaker 3: Now, Okay, I have an answer.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to go to phones, I promise, But I

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Speaker 2: haven't answer for Linda's question main ballot measures. Okay, there

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Speaker 2: were two questions up there. The one that Linda asked

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Speaker 2: Let me explain. The question was, do you want to

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Speaker 2: Well that you know, that ballot question got about thirty

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Speaker 2: They was the people who put the ballot question together

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Speaker 2: yes if you love chocolate ice cream, if you love

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Speaker 2: How are you tonight?

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Speaker 5: Good?

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Speaker 6: Thank you?

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Speaker 3: Does your vote yesterday?

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Speaker 5: Yes?

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Speaker 6: I did, and I was calling in because I agree

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Speaker 6: I've always been told that absolutely true.

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Speaker 2: Also, I think that our schools have not have failed

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Speaker 2: And how that you know, we've there have been wars fought.

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Speaker 6: And they thought, yeah, they fought for that right, so

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Speaker 6: we should exercise it absolutely.

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Speaker 2: You know, you have so many It's so much easier

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Speaker 2: I mean when I was first coming of age, you

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Speaker 2: There's sometime between seven in the morning. And I grew

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Speaker 3: You had to prove that you know, you were going

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Speaker 2: They have loosened all of those requirements and it's pretty

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Speaker 3: Election out there yesterday. Did you you had a.

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Speaker 7: We have a city.

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Speaker 8: I've my mayor for mayor and city counselors. And I

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Speaker 2: Well, let me tell you my opinion. The local races

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Speaker 6: And that's where the margins can be can be tight.

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Speaker 7: So your vote counts absolutely absolutely.

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Speaker 2: How are the results in your community? Dover is a

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Speaker 8: It's a city.

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Speaker 3: It's a city. So you have a mayor, yes, do

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Speaker 6: Did we have a new mayor?

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Speaker 2: Okay, what's the new mayor's name? If you know, I'd

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Speaker 6: I honestly I can't remember. That's when I'm off the

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Speaker 10: That's not a problems a gentleman. I did vote for

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Speaker 2: Okay, and he'll be of the mayor of Dover, New Hampshire.

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Speaker 6: He wants to fight for diver diverse housing and for education.

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Speaker 2: Well I hope, I hope he's successful on both. That

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Speaker 2: But you've got to have some housing and do what

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Speaker 3: Is this your first time?

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Speaker 6: On my first time, but I look.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much. Call again, Kimberly.

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Speaker 2: I always am fascinated by what topic induces someone to

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let me get one more in here before the break,

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Speaker 2: I'm going to go to gym down in Maryland.

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Speaker 3: Jim.

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Speaker 2: In Maryland next to Virginia, but Virginia took the spotlight

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Speaker 3: Jim, how are you.

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Speaker 5: I'm good. I vote every election and for the most part,

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Speaker 5: I live in a red county in Maryland, which is rare.

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Speaker 3: I didn't think there are any red counties in Maryland.

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Speaker 5: There is, there's very few. But I live up in

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Speaker 5: And you know, in some of these smaller elections, it's

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Speaker 3: I think it's.

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Speaker 2: Great to have to have changes at all levels of government.

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Speaker 2: Here in Massachusetts, we have a very weak Republican Party.

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Speaker 2: You folks occasionally elect a Republican governor, but you like

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Speaker 2: Massachusetts we have two Democratic senators, nine Democrats in the

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Speaker 2: House of Representatives, and all of our statewide constitutional offices

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Speaker 2: right now, Governor, Lieutenant governor, attorney general, treasurer, auditor, secretary

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Speaker 2: of state. They're all Democrats the Republicans as.

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Speaker 5: Long as they keep my taxes reasonable and I can

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Speaker 5: survive down here. But it's crazy to see Mandani and

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Speaker 5: all those guys get elected because I lived in New

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Speaker 5: York for a long time. But it's not my problem.

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Speaker 2: So I think, in my opinion, mem Donnie maybe a

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Speaker 2: big problem for the Democrats. He either maybe the savior

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Speaker 2: and he will become the Bernie Sanders of the twenty

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Speaker 2: first century and he will lead the Democrats to socialism

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Speaker 2: and victory U in the end of America.

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Speaker 5: Or well, he's got a rap, he's got a ramp

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Speaker 5: it down. If he doesn't ramp it down, I'm not

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Speaker 5: gonna give him the funds he needs. And I didn't

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Speaker 5: mean to say.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, please clip that rob.

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, let me just give it, give you a

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Speaker 2: little Well, we're gonna get to Mindami next hour, okay,

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Speaker 2: and but but let me get you something here from

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Speaker 2: min Domi. So uh, just for the fun of it,

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Speaker 2: here's here is min Domie cut seven a rob little

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Speaker 2: min Doami from last night.

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Speaker 9: We will fight for you because we are you, or

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Speaker 9: as we say on steinway an aminkum waileakum. Thank you

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Speaker 9: to those so often forgotten by the politics of our

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Speaker 9: city who.

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Speaker 1: Made this movement their own. I speak of.

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Speaker 9: Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas, Senegalese taxi drivers, and

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Speaker 9: who's beck nurses, Trinidadian line cooks, and Ethiopian aunties. Yes, aunties.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a little reference. He referred to his aunt.

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Speaker 2: Wasn't his aunt to us? A cousin who was Muslim

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Speaker 2: and was looked at disparagingly by some New Yorkers in

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Speaker 2: the days after nine to eleven, and I was more

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Speaker 2: on uh the the disparagy look directed to his cousin.

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Speaker 2: Uh as opposed to the murders of three thousand Americans,

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Speaker 2: we have that you gotta be your priorities.

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Speaker 5: Right, yeah, right, well let's see how that works for everybody.

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Speaker 3: We will seize the next pas the may relact, no doubt,

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Speaker 3: no doubt.

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Speaker 5: Yeah he's there, He's the man.

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Speaker 3: Keep the faith, my friend. Okay, all right, talk to

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Speaker 3: you later.

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Speaker 2: As for calling nights, yeah, well too often will Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I've got a bunch of callers in Maryland. But but

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Speaker 2: we love to hear folks different.

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Speaker 5: I do, I do, and I like. I listened to

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Speaker 5: your like four topics at the start of the show

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Speaker 5: and stuff, but a lot of them are not related

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Speaker 5: to me. But that's fine. But I call when I

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Speaker 5: see something that I want to talk about.

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Speaker 3: So you're always welcome, always welcome.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, good night. Six one, seven, two, five, four

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Speaker 2: ten thirty six one seven, nine three, one ten thirty.

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Speaker 3: Uh. If you're on the line, stay there.

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Speaker 2: We will We're going to segue into the national elections.

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Speaker 2: We're going to talk a little locally here in Massachusetts

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Speaker 2: for the battance of this hour, and then we will

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Speaker 2: segue more into the national election, which will include the

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Speaker 2: New York election and of course Virginia uh in.

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Speaker 3: New Jersey as well. It was a tough night for

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Speaker 3: the Republicans.

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Speaker 2: The Republicans I think have been put on notice that

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Speaker 2: they better get off their butt uh and that they

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Speaker 2: have to change their ways a little bit. I think

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Speaker 2: it was a message for Donald Trump. I'm not sure

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Speaker 2: that President Trump either will hear or understand the message.

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Speaker 2: But there's some interesting statistics I will share with you

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Speaker 2: as well as we move into the next hour. If

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Speaker 2: you'd like to jump on board here and talk about Massachusetts,

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Speaker 2: and I would love to hear from someone in Boston.

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Speaker 2: You people in Boston just must feel that everything in

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Speaker 2: Boston is perfect, because not only was the mayor returned

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Speaker 2: to office, but every one of the city council incumbents

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Speaker 2: returned to office. And the only city council incumbent who

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Speaker 2: was not returned to office is because she's serving time

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Speaker 2: in federal prison for Fernandez Anderson.

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Speaker 3: So six.

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Speaker 2: Sixty jump on board back after.

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Speaker 1: This night side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: By the way, I was remiss earlier time. I want

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Speaker 2: to congratulate Frank in Boston. He is the winner his

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Speaker 2: choice of a knight Side mug or a Knightside tote bag.

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Speaker 2: Frank of all the callers on Monday night, called the

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Speaker 2: results of the three races, the Democratic gubernatorial wins in

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Speaker 2: Virginia and New Jersey and the win of ma'am Donnie

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Speaker 2: Mim Donnie uh in New York City. So Frank, you

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Speaker 2: got to call in. We got to get an address,

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Speaker 2: so we can send either your choice a mug or

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Speaker 2: a nightside coat bag. As a result of your political acumen,

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Speaker 2: which you displayed fully on Monday night in the eleven

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Speaker 2: o'clock hour. Let me go to David and Revere and

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Speaker 2: next on nightside, David.

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Speaker 7: Welcome, Yes, hi, thanks for having me on. I have

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Speaker 7: a story about why I vote faithfully.

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Speaker 3: Sure.

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Speaker 7: So. I was born in nineteen fifty two and it

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Speaker 7: was a presidential election year, and it was already known

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Speaker 7: aat of time that I would be born by sea section.

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Speaker 7: And my mother goes to see the doctor. She says.

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Speaker 7: The doctor says, Mary, we're all set. We'll do the

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Speaker 7: delivery on Tuesday. And my mother said, oh, no, we won't.

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Speaker 7: And the doctor said why not? And she said, I'm

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Speaker 7: busy on Tuesday, And he said, what are you talking about.

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Speaker 7: She said, it's election day. I have to vote. So

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Speaker 7: you're so, yeah, And I was so. But I was

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Speaker 7: born then three days after election day, when I should

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Speaker 7: have been born on election day because my mother would

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Speaker 7: not go in for the C section because she had

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Speaker 7: to vote. Wow, I have and I learned a lesson

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Speaker 7: early on in life. I have. I don't think I

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Speaker 7: have ever missed voting in any election because of what

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Speaker 7: my mother did.

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Speaker 2: I bet you that I will bet you that your

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Speaker 2: mother would be very proud of you.

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Speaker 7: Well, I hope.

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Speaker 2: So I'm serious that that is quite a uh, you know,

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Speaker 2: quite a record to hold.

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Speaker 3: So your birthday, Your birthday is November.

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Speaker 7: Seventh, that's correct.

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Speaker 2: Wow, okay, so that needs we're gonna nail this down.

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Speaker 2: Your birthday's Friday, that's right. Okay, and you were going

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Speaker 2: to turn on Friday, if I'm if I'm correct, seventy.

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Speaker 7: Three years old, that's correct.

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Speaker 3: Well, happy birthday.

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Speaker 7: Well, thank you, David.

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Speaker 3: I love Please keep listening, and please keep calling this program.

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Speaker 7: You would do, your mom, you'd love that story.

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Speaker 3: Okay, it's a great story.

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Speaker 2: H And I was able to double check the date

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Speaker 2: and your three days November seventh, happy preview.

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Speaker 7: Fortunately her unfortunately her candidate lost.

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Speaker 3: So she voted for Adlai Stevenson.

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Speaker 7: That's correct.

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Speaker 2: She got a pretty good president. Dwight Eisenhower was a

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Speaker 2: pretty good president.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

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Speaker 2: That's often happens. You vote for somebody and the other

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Speaker 2: guy turns out to be pretty good. David, Thank you much.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate it. All Right, good night, let me go

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Speaker 2: to Bob and Rolle Island. We'll see how long Bob

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Speaker 2: last tonight.

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Speaker 11: Go ahead, Bob, I'm ready for the point.

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Speaker 3: Dan all right, get your swim suit on.

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Speaker 11: I hope, okay, go ahead that something. Oh, go ahead, yut.

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Speaker 3: You know, get you don't get you say something dumb?

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Speaker 3: Go ahead. I got to give you a chance to

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Speaker 3: say something dumb.

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Speaker 11: Okay. How did do Trump boys and all the Republicans

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Speaker 11: do last night? I don't think very well.

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Speaker 2: Well, if you've listened to me, which of course you

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Speaker 2: never really listen to me because you're always trying to

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Speaker 2: talk over me. I've said that last night was a

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Speaker 2: great night for the Democrats and it was a really

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Speaker 2: bad night for the Republicans.

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Speaker 11: I agree, and also Trump said it because I wasn't

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Speaker 11: on the ballot, that's why the Republicans didn't do well.

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Speaker 8: Well.

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Speaker 2: There's true to that, if you if you are going

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Speaker 2: to analyze the numbers for you in both in Virginia

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Speaker 2: and in New Jersey last night, uh, the Republican candidates

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Speaker 2: from for governor both received anywhere between three hundred and

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Speaker 2: four hundred thousand fewer voters than Trump received a year ago.

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Speaker 2: So there's a little bit of truth that there is

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Speaker 2: a there are a lot of people who will vote

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Speaker 2: for Trump and that it's all they vote for, and

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Speaker 2: that is not good for.

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Speaker 3: The Republican Party. Okay, look you ready for the plank.

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Speaker 11: No, I'm not.

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Speaker 2: Okay, here you go anyway, good night, we'll be back

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Speaker 2: right after the ten o'clock news. He's swimming home to

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Speaker 2: Rhode Island. Watch out for those sharks, bob uh. We're

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Speaker 2: gonna we're gonna segue to the national election six one, seven, two, five, four,

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