they're watching the debate, if they like what they're hearing, they'll dial it up, and then they'll dial it down if they don't like what they're hearing. So you can see, overlaid when the candidates are talking, you can see the graphs moving. Oh, they like what they're saying right now. Oh, and then they're divided by independents, Democrats, and Republicans.

Now you would not be surprised that whenever Kamala Harris talks, the Democrat line goes way up to the top. Whenever Trump talks, it goes way down to the bottom. And vice versa. Republicans up when Trump is talking. Republicans all the way at the bottom when Kamala is talking. But here's the interesting thing. Where do you think the independents are? Your common sense would say somewhere in the middle, right? Somewhere in the middle. Well, it didn't work out that way apparently. When Trump was talking about the economy, the independents tracked the Republican line perfectly. Perfectly. They didn't even basically, you could barely see any difference. So the independents are economics voters. What do you think of that?

So that's my statement of the day. I don't know if it's true. I'll just put it out there as you can test this against what you see in here. I say the independent voters are the ones who are not caring about the eating of cats and dogs. They're not caring about who got accused of saying the thing that made somebody mad. They're not caring so much about the mean tweets. They're not caring so much about anything except the economy. So maybe we're making a big mistake to call them independents. Maybe all they are is people who prioritize the economy above other things. And they say the rest is garbage. Everything else is garbage. Just give us an economy. Maybe stay out of some wars. We'll be good.

So that's interesting. So that would be a suggestion that Trump would win. Because if he's, and there is some evidence that in Michigan for example the New York Post is reporting that Trump's IVF proposal, where the government would pay for your scientific IVF, in vitro fertilization, so you could have more babies, and also some kind of support for people with major newborn expenses. So Trump would help having babies, according to a new poll. That made independents swing pretty hard to his side. So that would be a second indication that there's another thing that could move independents, which is can you directly help me have a baby?

Now the number of people who are either using IVF or have a close family member or friend who is using IVF is really high now, isn't it? Let me ask you in the comments, have you used IVF or do you know somebody who's close to you who has? So just say yes if you've heard it, if you've used it yourself, planning to use it, or does it have a connection to your life at all? Because I feel like it might. I feel like a lot of people would have some connection to that topic anyway.

You could argue that that has some, it's an economic thing, but I think it's more. It could be, and I wouldn't take too much away from this one poll and this one state over this one issue. I'm looking at a lot of yeses coming in, some nos as well. Yeah, so if you look at the wall of yeses coming in to people who have some direct or indirect connection to IVF, that tells you it's at least a real topic.

But secondly, here's my interesting question. The news has to fill up the twenty-four hours, so we end up getting excited about things that we all know are not important because we're trying to fill up the thing. It's about memes and who did who shook hands right and you know who tripped on the stairs and you know all that stuff. But what is more core to your human existence than reproduction? Mating. Mating is the core human value. So it could be that the person who sort of accidentally stumbles onto that wins in the landslide and nobody knows why.

You know I've told you a number of times in the past that all of our behaviors, all of them, are an expression of our mating instinct. Because it's the only thing we're optimized for by evolution. If you get mating right, then you get to survive as a species. Everything else doesn't matter so much. You just got to be able to mate, period. Just make more of you and everything will be fine. So we evolved so that any suggestion of anything that's in the domain of sex or reproduction just automatically goes to the top of all of our lists, even if we don't know it. Even if you're completely oblivious to it, it goes to the top of your list.

So even what I'm doing