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not just of the week, of the year, of the decade, of the century, of the entire history of humanity. It would be the biggest story of all. There wouldn't be no bigger story, right? And it disappeared. The biggest story in the history of humankind if it were true. But CNN decided that wasn't newsworthy. Here's what I think. I think at the top of the news pile they know it's not true and so they do…
← Previous segment →ike Charlie Brown's football — there's always something that's like pulling the football back just before you kick it. And I feel like the Iowa results are going to be based on the weather. Does it feel like that to you?
Basically just think about this. Vivek just absolutely blanketed that state like nobody's ever done before. Not only did he cover more of the precincts, he covered every one, which is called the full Grassley. He did a double Grassley and then it kept going. He did a double Grassley. He visited every precinct that I know twice. Twice. Never been done before. Just absolutely was just all over the state. And then it snows. It could be that none of his work will make any difference just because it snowed. Like that's our system. That's how we pick a president, by the snow basically.
So I don't know if the snow suppresses Democrats the same amount as it suppresses Republicans, but don't Republicans skew older? I think they do, don't they? Republicans tend to be a little older. And if I saw a snowstorm I'd say fewer older people are going to go outside on the ice and in the snow. So good luck with that.
Now Vivek is confidently predicting a surprise. Now I don't know what a surprise looks like. First place or strong showing? I don't know what that would be. But he might be right. And this would be a good test of the polling. I think there's a good chance that the people that Vivek is attracting to show up are exactly — see if you think this is true — the people he's attracting are very much exactly the people who don't show up in polling. Am I right?
Because the pollers, you know, they got a problem because they've got landlines that they're polling and then they do online polls but young people don't bother to even read them. And a general poll of people who don't care about politics is completely different than the poll of people who might actually show up on a primary or a caucus. I mean those are pretty dedicated people. So is it possible that Vivek is reading the room correctly? Because he did have big crowds. He had big crowds.
If the size of the crowds was the predictor and you didn't believe that they could dig down deep enough to find his supporters specifically, he might have a surprise. He might actually pull this off.
You know what's a fun party game? I was playing this yesterday. Some of you heard me. It's to imagine the founders of our country, America, you know the famous ones, your Ben Franklins and your George Washingtons and Jeffersons and Hamiltons and whatnot, and then map yourself into one of the founders. Just ask yourself, all right, which one would I be? You get one free pass to be a founder yourself.
I chose John Adams. So you know, might as well pick my cousin because I felt a little like John Adams in this current situation. Because we feel like we're in a new American Revolution, especially with Vivek but also with Trump, in that in order for many of us to get the president we want we have to know or
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understand is there some big uniparty power behind politics that we don't see directly? Like you need to know that, right? But doesn't it feel as though both Vivek and Trump are a new American Revolution against these hidden powers that maybe we don't even know who they are? I don't know if that even exists. I don't even know if it exists. I know there are a lot of people pretty sure it does but…
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