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- Greg Fink: ⁓ also I think your ⁓ your criteria, my criteria for likely voters different than most other people's. I mean, most people look at two out of three elections or three out of four elections. I think we usually historically we try to go back around eight or nine election cycles. ⁓ I mean and yes, it does swing it to where we're ⁓ likely calling people who are forty five or over. But the reality is, survey says those are the ones that turn out. And so that's the reason why we don't for a poll too many people who are under forty five. I mean, y you gotta have some cycles in you, some ⁓ some election cycles in you to really be that person who's gonna, you know, turn the dime and and and and make that choice that's gonna make a difference. And whenever you're not, I don't give a damn about your opinion for a poll. I just really don't because we're talking about billions of dollars in budgeting. We're talking about trillions of dollars in budgeting for some states. We're talking about data that's gonna be used. to make people's lives differently and it needs to be done only with likely voters who are really invested in the system, who have turned out, who've been part of it, because they're the ones, they're the opinion leaders, they're the stakeholders. They're the ones with the most skin in the game politically, to where they've actually gone out, taken off work, you know, got to work late, got to work, you know, ⁓ or got off work early to go vote. And they're the ones who are putting the yard sins in there. They're the ones who tell people how to vote. And so they're their opinion leaders, they're your stakeholders and And whenever you just start doing these registered voter polls or these likely voter polls where two out of five people voted that's a likely voter. That's not a likely voter, guys. I have people telling me this week that we don't think we need to do a survey. We don't think we need to do a poll. And I've had at least a dozen different campaigns tell me that you know, that polls won't make a difference. I'm like, ⁓ well, okay. Polls only will not make a difference if the data is not being used, but Scott: Mm-hmm.