It's Monday, November 7, 2022.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a

Christian world view.

Well, Buckeye or seatbelts tomorrow is officially election day in the United States midterm elections

2022, and I think most Americans are probably going to be glad that election day will eventually

be over and eventually the results will be in.

And if nothing else, that means that there will be at least a temporary pause in the avalanche

of television ads and other sorts of messages that have simply been a barrage on the American

people, particularly in some of the most important critical states over the course of the last

several months.

This has been a record-breaking campaign, record-breaking in terms of the amount of advertising, record-breaking

in terms of the amount of money spent on this election.

We'll look at that in retrospect after the elections over and we'll have some more

information so that we can speak on more finalized data, but at this point it's really clear

that just about everyone in the United States knows that the election is happening, and

we can only hope that Americans will go out to the polls and vote, although tens of

millions have already voted one way or another in terms of early voting opportunities.

But it's also interesting that even with so much at stake, and we're going to talk about

that in terms of the election, it is also true that politics remains a favorite parlor

sport of sorts for many Americans.

It is also a bit of the oxygen on which the major media will feed, and it's also, by the

way, when it comes to the major media, a major source of their income because of advertising.

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