On this edition of the program, we're here.

It's election day.

A reminder to vote and a reminder why we vote.

It's all coming up.

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2024. What a long, strange trip it has been. We have covered every inch of this race from before it was even really a fair.

Every inch of the Biden administration.

The nascent Trump campaign, the primaries, the first part of this race, the reboot, the assassination

attempts, and now we're here. I would like to read something for you.

It is something that I like to think of when election day rolls around.

It is from Theodore White's book, making of the president, 1960, and it goes paraphrased, something like this.

It was invisible, as always.

For it's the essence of an act that as it happens is the mystery in which millions of people each fit one fragment of a total secret together, none of them knowing the shape of the whole.

What results from the fitting together of these secrets is, of course, the most awesome

transfer of power in the world. The power to marshal and mobilize, the power to send men to

kill or be killed, the power to tax and destroy the power to create and the responsibility to do so.

The power to guide and the responsibility to heal, all committed into the hands of one man or woman.

Heroes and philosophers, brave men and vile have since Roman Athens tried to make this particular manner

of transfer of power work effectively.

But none have succeeded at it better, or for over a longer period of time, than the

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