It's Thursday, November 9, 2003.

I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian

worldview. We need to take a very

hard, a very serious look at the off-year election results on this past

Tuesday because if anything they represent a massive reality call wake-up call a massive alarm

that should go off to all of us who are seeking to understand these things

through a Christian biblical worldview and who are trying to translate those truths into public policy.

Because there's just no other way to put it.

Tuesday was a nearly unmitigated disaster.

I say nearly unmitigated or near total disaster. I say nearly unmitigated or near total disaster because we are looking at the fact that Mississippi's Republican governor was reelected that has something to do with the life issue, something to do with the larger constellation

of what is often described as liberal conservative issues.

That's not unimportant if the Democrat had been elected there, you can count on the fact that it will be

trumpeted as a clean sweep for Democrats and for the progressives cause.

But as you look at the big issues that voters faced in terms of big consequence and big impact,

we lost at least five out of six.

Add to that the success of an abortion legalization measure also in the state of Ohio and well you have a pretty good idea of what these off-year elections

underline as the challenge that we face and we need to understand case by case vote by vote even in some cases state

by state what all of this means as I said before the election we have to look

to Ohio first issue one as it was known, the proposed constitutional amendment

that would legalize abortion, potentially without restrictions at all, all the

way through the nine months of gestation, it not only passed, it passed convincingly. And as you're looking at

voting patterns, there's something else to watch, and that is correlation. So looking

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