Episode 36: Election prediction special

Welcome back to the World Series of Politics! Brandt Iden and Brendan Bussmann are doing some crystal ball-gazing in this week's Halloween-slash-election special.

We're back from G2E, Brandt is out of his pink suit, and we're getting down to the gritty business of polling, with Harrison Hickman of Hickman Analytics. While the top of the ticket is obviously dominating headlines, for the industry there's a lot more at stake, especially in the state of misery - sorry, Missouri - where Amendment 2 is on a knife edge.

Seasoned Democratic strategist Hickman believes it's less about changing minds, and more about zeroing in on the undecideds. Those voters will generally skew to a 'no' vote, he warns.

However in Virginia, he's much more bullish on the prospects for a casino in Pittsburg. The make up of the population and the attitudes towards gaming would make that much more of a slam dunk if the question on the ballot was a simple yes/no answer.

And then there's the elephant in the room, the ballot at the top of the ticket. If the Harris-Walz ticket prevails, that removes Tim Walz as Minnesota's governor; does that change prospects for gaming advancement in the state? Listen on for Hickman's assessment.