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We've been covering a lot of detail over the last couple of weeks here on the Carolina Journal News Hour and over on our website. CarolinaJournal.com is a plethora of races across North Carolina, beginning the process of materializing now that we are past the Labor Day weekend. We've got a brand new Carolina Journal poll out today that we're going to walk through the details of some very interesting numbers in this to help us through that. It's my pleasure to welcome the brand new editor-in-chief of CarolinaJournal.com, David Larson, to the Carolina Journal News Hour this morning. All right, David, we start these polls off at the top and kind of work our way down.
Let's take a look at the Trump job approval and the direction of the country. We talked about this last month. Things are pretty much the same. People are not very optimistic about the direction of the country, and the president's current disapproval rating is 57.1%. Ouch.
Yes, it looks pretty similar on the Trump job approval as it did last time, which was in August. Slightly worse actually on the disapproved, not by much, by half a percent or so. Um and that strongly disapprove. Still being above 50%, 51% strongly, that's a tough number to. Um overcome I guess on coattails and just the the general uh feeling for you know his party often in that Midterms of a second term, the president's party will suffer as it is and maybe lose some seats.
That will probably come to bear a little bit based on that disapproval. You see, also, as you said, the. Right direction, wrong track numbers, still sliding a little bit in terms of those who think it's we're in a going the right direction. It was 34% last time, now it's closer to 33%. And wrong track was more like.
A little under 61, and now it's a bit over 61.
So, not too much movement, but none of it's in a good direction necessarily for. Republicans. Let me ask you a little bit about that. President Donald Trump obviously is around and about. We saw him here in North Carolina this week stumping for Michael Watley.
But David, his name is not actually on the ballot, even though he's been telling people in one of his new lines is pretend that I'm on the ballot. I guess some of these numbers would indicate that maybe he shouldn't be telling people to pretend that he is on the ballot because these numbers are just not indicative of a president that is popular at this point in time. Yeah, I mean, the numbers have been slipping over time. Like you see back in March, it was 53.5%, 54%. Disapprove and only 46 and 0.8 was the strong disapproved.
So, those are numbers you could kind of work with. And also, what I noticed back then, too, was. There was a stronger we'll get into this with some of the later numbers, but there's a stronger a stronger Divergence between the way people thought about President Trump and maybe how they thought about generic Republicans. But I see that as sort of fading at this point and they're being Um, anything Republican and anything Trump is sort of in the same The same item in people's minds, where even not that long ago and a couple months ago in our polls. We would see You know, the MAGA brand was really starting to struggle, but the Republican brand, when you ask about generic, ballot and things of that nature.
Um You know, we'll talk about those numbers in a bit, but I do think those are starting to converge and it's It's Trump's party, even if he's not at the top of the ballot. Let me ask you this because this is kind of interesting for us, our friends over at the Carolina Journal, many of our audience that follows this stuff day in and day out. David, the reality is the vast majority of North Carolinians do not. Do you think some of these stronger opinions start coming up when we get closer to an election cycle? I mean, we talked about what was going on back in March.
We saw the primary turnout was abysmal as usual. But as we approach the general and get closer to that election, it seems like more and more people get engaged and maybe start forming opinions on things that they haven't thought about. And in some cases, maybe a year or so since the last time they voted in a general election. And that's fair. I mean, we are political junkies.
So to us, we're analyzing all these numbers and assuming everybody else, there's got to be a reason that this thing moves a little bit that way. But a lot of times people aren't really as watching the political wins as we are. Um so you know that's fair like you look at um The way the undecided voters, or who which politicians people have heard of. You know, there there's a lot of time. I mean, When you look at legislative leaders that we will hear their names every day, you ask.
Every day. North Carolina voters, what they think about. you know, Phil Bergers and they a lot of them, I mean, I think I'm trying to remember what the numbers were, but it was it was a vast majority. Hetney aren't even familiar with that name. Philberger and most people they're not familiar with their mayor.
It's just there's so much competing. noise now that it's not like you get the local paper, you read about what your mayor's doing. and you read about the state legislature, people are Focusing on international things. They're focused on all kinds of entertainment and As you say, maybe they're not. White.
paying attention yet until it seems like, oh, you know what, I I should uh time's getting near maybe i should start uh really digging into who these candidates are Yeah, we'll see that as early voting kicks off in less than a month here across North Carolina. Let's move to North Carolina. We just talked a little bit about President Donald Trump for Governor Josh Stein. His approval rating, rebounding a little bit. We saw a low of 47.2% in August.
He's now back up to 49.4%. In terms of what voters seem to think of him, David, he's on the positive trend. Yeah, he's had interesting numbers in part because his election was an unusual one. In that he had a just blowout election over Mark Robinson, and so there was. Um There was a lot of Republicans, were a lot of Republicans that were, it looked like for a while, really giving him a shot because they might have voted for him and they.
They wanted just to validate that in their minds probably, but. That number started slipping, as you noted, for a while, that Ezzy starts governing. And they remember, you know, you know, I am a Republican and I don't typically uh have have approval for for the democratic governors but you know maybe that hit its its floor and and Similar thing with Cooper. He always had that just right around 50% sort of. Numbers, so I think he's playing a similar Game plan.
He might actually be playing it a little bit more conciliatory, even to Republicans. And Cooper would do a lot more vetoes and a lot more harsh. Rhetoric seems like Stein's trying to play that. Um you know, he'll likely govern similarly to the left as like Cooper did, but at least in his uh messaging and his Um you know Perform how he portrays himself to the public, he seems like he's going for Moderate. Nothing too crazy, and so maybe we won't see anything drastic like a drop down.
And his numbers for a while. 49.4% say they approve of the governor's job. 32.9% say they disapprove. We'll be keeping an eye on that in our polls that will follow in the months ahead. Let's move over to some of these generic legislative ballots and maybe explain a little bit why we go through this process.
There's way too many lawmakers here in North Carolina. As David just noted a couple of minutes ago, the vast majority of people have no idea who their lawmaker is.
So we ask the question: if the 2026 general election were held today, would you vote for the Republican or Democrat candidate in the North Carolina state legislature? 49.5%, David, said they'd support the Democrat, compared to 41.3% that would support the Republican. This is a pretty important number as Republicans have held majorities in both chambers over the last 15 years. Maybe we see a crack this year. Yes, it does seem like so the numbers have been moving pretty steadily from Democrats had 45%, then it was forty seven point five percent, forty eight, now forty nine point five.
So they have an eight point lead 8.2% over Republicans. And I would say that You know, there are there's twenty eight races. Andy Jackson over the Civitas Center here at John Locke Foundation, he looks into all these numbers, analyzes the districts. He says there's twenty eight races that are most competitive. But they're The reason it's kind of condensed into those specific races out of 170 races.
Is the maps are Pretty well laid out where Republicans, even if they are down a bit, I don't think they're going to see huge losses that will take away their majorities. you know, they might move um a bit below. Uh An area where they'll be able to override vetoes, let's say.
So that's more of. what's probable with if they're down eight points going into it. And a lot of those races are in Wake County and Mecklenburg County, a lot of these races that are More competitive. There's a lot of people moving into these areas that are from more cosmopolitan areas from around the country, and maybe are going to be leaning. More towards the Democrats.
I do think, you know, if these numbers stay, it will probably be an advantage to the Democrats. But with the maps, I wouldn't say anything overly drastic is going to happen. We'll, of course, be keeping a close eye on the legislature as well as we get closer to November. We will dive into details on the all-important U.S. Senate race here in North Carolina coming up.
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It's 5.20. Welcome back to the Carolina Journal News Hour, Charlotte's FM News Talk, 107.9 FM, WBT. We are joined this morning by David Larson, the brand new editor-in-chief of CarolinaJournal.com, going through details of our September Carolina Journal poll. Here in North Carolina, a major United States Senate race. I mentioned a little while ago, the president here in North Carolina this week in Gastonia, stumping for Michael Watley, the Republican Senate candidate.
He is battling against the former eight-year governor, before that, Attorney General, before that, member of the North Carolina General Assembly in Roy Cooper. These are some pitiful numbers for Michael Watley, David. He is now down 15.1% compared to Roy Cooper, 49.2 for Cooper, 34.1 for Watley. Wow. Yeah, 15 points, 15.1 points.
It's it's uh the trend from March 2026 until now has been just a widening. I know there's other polls that have shown things a bit closer. Ours has just gone from, you know. eight points to 11 to 12 and a half now to 15.1.
So it's over time. This is the first one where we've added. Shannon Bray, the libertarian candidate. And also Michael Dublin, the Green Party.
So that changed things a bit. It actually brought Roy Cooper's numbers down from 51.5 to 49.2. But it also brought Watley's numbers down about five points.
So, a loss of two for Cooper, but a loss of five. for Watley as we added in those other candidates. And it's it's not good. Also talk about The question right above that we ask about Michael Watley and Roy Cooper in terms of what voters think about them, not whether they're gonna vote for them or whatever, but. When you hear about Michael Watley, what are your opinions?
And I think this goes to the heart of maybe what What the issue is for him is he was fairly unknown comparatively. Roy Cooper has, this will be his seventh statewide election. Cooper 1-6, four is attorney general and two is governor. For governor and Roy Cooper. I mean, Michael Wiley, this will be his first statewide race.
Really race of any Kind outside of party selections. And people, you had the never-heard-of numbers for Michael Watley. Are at 18%, and no opinion are at 13%.
So those are kind of the people who have a question mark in their heads. Sure.
So that's that's 32% of people. And 32% of people still are thinking, you know, who exactly is this? And that's higher than its favorable rating, which is 26%.
So you have more people who are not sure who he is. than who are favorable to them. And maybe more painful than that is the Unfavorable number is 42%.
So there's Quite a few more people. It's almost the same as for Cooper, but Cooper has a higher favorable than he does. is unfavorable so he has 47% favorable, 43% unfavorable. Um And only 2% of people have never heard of Roy Cooper.
So that for a Um you know, a statewide candidate running for state elections. That's actually A very, very low number as we talked about earlier, because people don't know. Leaders of the Senate and the House and all that in the state, so to have only 2% of people. Say I don't know who Roy Cooper is. He's he's very well known at this point, you know, running on on statewide ballot.
Um but yeah, there's WALLI is struggling. According to our numbers, I know there's others that say, oh, it might be. Might be getting closer, but who knows with the anomalous number, maybe it'll end up being them or us, but. Um there there's um kind of a range of polling numbers between say seven and I guess we're probably the the widest gap I've seen. Yeah.
It's not looking good if these are the real numbers. Let me ask you, you were talking about the favorable, unfavorable, and there's no question about it with Michael Wally having never run a statewide campaign before that the vast majority of people don't know who he is. But I found the unfavorable very interesting. You mentioned Roy Cooper's unfavorability in our poll is at 43.1%, but practically everybody knows who he is.
So they have a strong opinion one way or the other. We go to Michael Watley, his unfavorable is almost exactly the same, David, at 42.0, yet you still have more than 30% of people that don't know who he is. That seems odd. I wouldn't expect to see an unfavorable number so high on a relatively unknown candidate in comparison to the former eight-year governor. I think Cooper's been able to run his ads and his campaign.
He's fairly well defined and he knows his image. At the moment, a lot of people approve of him more than not.
So he's been able to focus a lot of his advertising on defining, if there isn't a name ID in people's minds, people talk about in campaigns positive name ID. If there really isn't any name ID, positive or negative, he's been able to spend a lot of his. campaign energy and defining um Michael Watley negatively. And so I think those numbers show that to the degree that that he's doing that it might be showing some success and And also You know, it's people. On the Democrat side, often if you see this is the person running against Roy Cooper, and I don't have a favorable.
Opinion of Republicans. Again, also the generic Republican image. Even if you don't know who they are, you might end up saying. Oh, the Republican? Negative.
Yeah. Exactly.
So we'll continue to keep an eye on that. Let's jump to another statewide race that we're going to see coming up here in November as well. That is the North Carolina Supreme Court. There's a lot on this race between the Republican Sarah Stevens, the Democrat Anita Earls, who is currently sitting on the state's high court running for re-election. This was a very close race when we polled it last in August.
43.3% said they were in favor of Earls. 39.7% said they were in favor of Stevens. We now transition to our September poll, and those numbers have flipped dramatically. Anita Earls now at 47.2%. Sarah Stevens now at 36%.
What was just a couple of points back just a month ago, David, is a race that, if these numbers verified, would not even be a competitive race by any stretch of the imagination. And this is what I was getting to maybe on I think people don't really know these two candidates that well. They just see the Republican and the Democrat label. And earlier, I think there was more of a differentiation in people's minds between. Trump and candidates connected to Trump versus generic Republican.
In this poll, I don't see as much of a differentiation. I see Maybe this is. Because they don't know who these candidates are, I'm fairly sure most voters don't. Even though we do, but I think they're thinking generic Republican, generic Democrat, and that's what. this judicial race is in people's minds and as that Um Kind of name brand of MAGA and Republican might be getting a little more.
um fully immersed together in people's minds and at least in this poll. It seems like To me, that would be the explanation. There isn't any new scandal or anything for Sarah Stevens. There's nothing really other than that that I could see that would have moved the numbers like that. Because it's almost, was it nine points?
At this point. Yeah, and it is important to note over the last couple of years in North Carolina, we have seen Republicans do very well on these statewide judicial races, whether it is the North Carolina Supreme Court or the North Carolina Court of Appeals. Those are statewide elections, and Republicans have unseated plenty of Democrats in both of those races. That's another one that we'll be keeping a close eye on. This may answer all of our questions, David.
Number 11 in our poll: if Donald Trump endorses a candidate, would that make you more or less likely to vote for that candidate? We know that Trump has put out plenty of endorsements campaigning here in North Carolina this week. 50.0% of voters say it would make them less likely to support a candidate. I guess this adds up with the high disapproval rating and some of the other numbers that we're seeing in this poll. Yeah, it was interesting to look at some of the crosstabs and the breakdowns by party and of that nature because Um, Republicans are still fairly um in Trump's corner.
You look at them, it'll be a huge. partisan breakdown where Democrats on a question like this, there's like Three percent of people who say, Oh, yeah, Trump endorsement makes me more likely. And Republicans, I think they're in the 80s percent.
So, you know, not everybody, but mostly saying Trump endorsement is good. But there is I think the problem for Republicans in this poll, and what it suggests, is that. the independent independents and unaffiliated. You can often tell how things are going. They can be a bellwether, and they are tracking way more with the Democrats on questions like this than in other years.
You see them tracking way more with Republicans. You've seen that like during When Biden was in office, we'd see that sometimes. But they are now almost entirely answering questions like this and saying You know, that's not it. I would not vote for somebody or be more likely to vote for them because of Trump. There were a fair amount of people that were saying no difference.
So you saw a lot of those. people as well but um It does seem like the unaffiliated independent Voters are uh They're they're the the Trump brand is is not one that they're Connecting with at this point. More details from our September Carolina Journal poll coming up after this. You're listening to the Carolina Journal News Hour. Have you ever thought about the difference between paying rent and owning a home?
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It's 5.38. Welcome back to the Carolina Journal News Hour, Charlotte's FM News Talk 107.9 FM. WBT, I'm Nick Craig. Good Friday morning to you. Continuing coverage of our September Carolina Journal poll with David Larson, the editor-in-chief of CarolinaJournal.com.
For those that have not had a chance to take a look at their sample ballots yet, these are very long ballots that you are going to be voting, whether during the early voting period starting in October or on Election Day, November the 3rd. You will have to flip it over to the other side. There are plenty of things on those. And there's a couple of interesting constitutional amendments that we're going to talk about. One deals with property taxes.
The other deals with the income tax rate. The third dealing with voter ID. In a poll, David, that as we've walked through some of the details, seems to favor Democrats pretty heavily. All three of these questions, as it relates to these constitutional amendments, have very strong support. And I guess that adds on to and builds onto some of these constitutional amendments, whether it was voter ID in 2018.
Voters tend to support this stuff pretty much across the board. You don't see Democrats on the voter ID question. They seem to. come out fairly strongly against voter ID. Interestingly, Black Democrats and black voters were a majority for it, but all the white Democrats in the poll were.
Against requiring voter ID. But overall, all three of these had exactly like two-thirds support.
So it shows that I think that even if the Republican brand and the Trump brand might be slipping, there's a lot of things that are. common sense to voters that might have sort of a conservative lean like You should have ID when you vote. We should have lower taxes. Although I will say, asking voters whether their taxes should be higher or lower. and you know and having a ballot amendment on it.
It's hard to get. Uh them to generally say, I'm against capping the income tax that I might pay.
So it it's kind of often the way I see Questions on taxes go that People just It sounds better, you know, i intuitively to say. Yeah, capital taxes, not as high. But um yeah, two-thirds on all three of those, that'll be at least good news for Um Republicans and for those who like lower taxes. Yeah, and of course the verbiage on the ballots themselves are maybe a little bit confusing.
So we'll see if there's some level of confusion that plays into that as we see some of those early voting returns begin the process of coming back. All right.
So generally a pretty negative poll for Republicans. This might shine some insight on it as well. In hindsight, do you think the decision to go to war with Iran was the right decision or wrong decision? 58.9% of voters say that that was the wrong decision compared to just 33.8% that say that's the right decision. We have seen all the impacts of that gas now well over $4 a gallon.
We are seeing the price of oil well over $100 a barrel now consistently for the last couple of weeks. This war with Iran that the president started back in March, David, seems to be having some major lingering effects and very likely could cost Republicans major wins coming up here in November. I'm not so sure. I mean, it does show that, you know, people are. Opposed for the most part, you know.
But I'm not so sure. Like, do you support continuing it? It's kind of. 39 to 53-ish. And uh Republicans are very It's about 80% for the war, 19% against.
So they're on the Republican side, it's fairly poor. I think There's a big part of it that um You know, it comes down to also Trump is doing this war, that's going to be negative. But when we've had our issue breakdown of what are the issues people are interested in, I've been interested to know, even throughout this whole. Um you know conflict with Iran prices, economy, they've stayed up and national offensive war It's such a low issue on people's minds, interestingly. I think it might be because we don't have boots on the ground this time.
Um That, you know, I'm not sure what the impact will be, or if it's just another issue where, oh, Trump's making. Making mistakes in my mind, and it's unclear to me. I will say it is interesting that. Among Republicans and among voters in general, it seemed the older the voter on this question, the more they supported the war. And then, as you got younger, other than I think it was 34 to 45, they were more supportive, but all the other younger age groups.
We're not in support of this. I will say, just in terms of how polling and war has tended to operate. Sure.
You saw this with Um you know, with Iraq and Afghanistan, where You start a war, you often have a lot of support. This one, I actually don't think that was the case, but initially, you would have a lot of support. And in a democracy, I just think It can be difficult for the if you have an objective, I think it it's uh difficult to Do we complete the objective, or do we kind of go with the winds of the democracy? Because that can shift drastically how people feel about a war.
So commanders in chief sometimes have to weigh.
Okay, it's not popular right now. Does that mean we we stop it or uh because you know if you ask Um people in Russia You know what they felt about the Ukraine war, Putin doesn't necessarily care, and he wouldn't necessarily change his game plan. Democracy is do probably take that into account a lot more, but it might be Also difficult to Meet your whatever objective you had when you started the war, if you're putting your thumb to the win too much.
Well, when the president was in Gastony on Wednesday night, he promised some news on the Iran war. He has been saying that now for the last couple of months.
So we'll wait and see if maybe in this very short time period, and I mean very short time period that we have between now and election day, there will be some major changes there that could provide some relief for himself and Republicans. Let's jump back and talk about a couple of other issues here. We asked, in your opinion, how likely would Roy Cooper be to support the policy priorities of the Democratic Socialists of America or the DSA if elected to the United States Senate? I was a little surprised with this result, David. 60% of voters said that he would support these DSA policies.
When you look at national polls, the DSA doesn't poll very well. Cooper is destroying Watley in this race, as we already talked about, a 15-point advantage. And people seem to think, yeah, he's going to go along with this socialist movement. That doesn't seem to add up in my mind. It doesn't.
Mitch Kokai, my colleague over here, put this in here. He was assuming Republicans would all say, yeah, he's going to be DSA, and Democrats would say no. Interestingly, Democrats, over 50%, just over 50%, said, yes, he will. Be more likely to have the DSA policies, but the Democrats also overwhelmingly. are gonna vote for him.
So you wonder. What does that say about the common Democrats' opinion of Democrat socialism? I still think it's sort of That's it. It depends on how um How into the daily news cycle and political philosophy of things going on, what they might think of that word, what does it mean to them? I don't know.
You know, there's all these people who are saying, I'm going to vote for Cooper. And oh, the Democratic socialist, oh, he's a Democrat. I don't know. Maybe they're just thinking of it in that way where He's going to be a Democrat, but. You would hope people would know a little bit more about that.
Um and the word socialism and and what that might entail. Because as you said, the DSA doesn't have a good brand nationally.
So might be something some of these Democrats are saying He might vote that way, but it's something that they would. Um Accepts but not endorsed, who knows? Let's move on to our next question. I'm just going to mention it briefly. We asked people how likely would Michael Watley be to support the policies of the Trump administration.
The president was here in North Carolina this week supporting Michael Watley. I don't think it's any big surprise there. 73.9% said that he would be likely to do so. Only 9.2% said not very likely. There's obviously a very strong relationship there between the president and Republican Senate candidate Michael Watley.
All right, David, let's talk about some other interesting issues that we've seen boiling up over the last couple of months. Data centers. This has been all the rage on social media. A lot of interesting discussion going on there. We asked which of the following best represents your opinions about the development of data centers.
The United States needs more large data centers, already has enough data centers, or has too many data centers currently. Kind of a mixed bag response here. 32.5% of people said the U.S. already has enough and we don't need to build any more. 30.7% said We have too many.
17% said we need more. 19% unsure. I guess this is a pretty good scatter plot of people kind of all over the map on this issue of data centers. Yeah, it was actually pretty widespread opposition to it. The sole groups that were for it were rural white men who liked Trump were about the only ones that said, big data centers and'cause we know that they lower your local tax rates and Yeah, they're you know, whatever the reason I think'cause I I think there's um there's been a real push.
I think Elon Musk was saying that there was like He found 200,000 or some crazy number of Chinese bots whose specific purpose was to. Make Americans. worried about data centers and all this with Chinese aim being to beat us on the AI race. Not saying that's the whole reason. There's probably some legitimate NIMBY, well, there's some NIMBY reasons that people.
Don't want them, things like that. But it is an interesting. I think some of it just reflects maybe an overall concern about technology. You hear these. Um these headlines like a bunch of AI executives are saying that Um They might.
You know, AI might get to the point where it causes a human extinction in the next few years. Or, you know, you hear like headlines like that. I think people are like, well, I don't necessarily want that then? Cause I mean, there's not a It's hard for me to find really the The core dispute with having a data center other than. That concern because You know, in the past, factories have been much more smelly and noisy, and these are kind of just like.
giant warehouses with computer data in in them.
So it's uh Not necessarily, you wouldn't think. Compared to past warehouses and factories, that people are clamoring for more manufacturing and all that, that this would be.
Something people would be concerned about, but it obviously is. Yeah, and we saw the president. I saw some people describing it as crashing out this week over data centers in his posts on Truth Social, really kind of going to the paint, David, on support for continuing to build data centers. But our next question was: would you support or oppose a new data center being built near your community? I think this is the largest of anything that we saw in the poll.
70.4% of people opposed it, with 58.5% strongly opposing it. A very slim number of people, about 16.5%, said that they would support a local data center in their community or in their backyard.
So this remains a major issue for local governments. We've seen many of these meetings and discussions taking place at the local level over the last couple of months.
So we'll be keeping an eye on that as well. There is a lot more in our poll that we did not have a chance to get into this morning. We've got a link to the crosstabs that David referenced and a full PDF of all the questions, all the polls. We encourage you to check out all of those details this morning. They're over on our website.
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It's 556. Welcome back to the Carolina Journal News Hour, Charlotte's FM News Talk, 107.9 FM, WBT recapping the big story out of our September Carolina Journal poll. Very bleak numbers for Republican Senate candidate Michael Watley. According to our poll, Roy Cooper has 49.2% support compared to just 34.1% for Watley. That is a 15.1% advantage for the former eight-year governor here in North Carolina.
We have been polling this race for months now, going all the way back to March, and that lead has continued to grow in our Carolina Journal poll. We are 47 days away from election day. Early voting kicks off here on October the 15th as we approach Election Day on November the 3rd. We are going to see a lot happening in a variety of different races. We saw President Donald Trump in Gallagher.
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