It's Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024.

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

Well, last week we had the Iowa caucuses, they were clarifying,

but today the New Hampshire primaries, and on the Republican side,

well, the stakes are really, really high.

But there's also a lot of history here and a lot of worldview.

So let's think about the history for a moment.

The New Hampshire primary has been vitally important

in terms of the Republican presidential process going

back about a hundred years. But for both parties going back to the mid-century, the

New Hampshire primary became the first primary and often the most important at least in

terms of the fact that a lot of candidacy crash in New Hampshire because the

big question is not only who wins but who survives the primary. Now this year of course all

the action and that has a little bit of a footnote but nonetheless in reality all

the action is on the Republican side and that's because there is an incumbent Democratic president of the United States.

That's reason number one that the Democratic side isn't seeing much action.

But there is actually another reason why there is no major Democratic primary, and that is because

the Democrats, under the leadership of their incumbent President Joe Biden, have decided to move the first primary in which delegates will be

counted from New Hampshire to South Carolina. Not an accident. A couple of

reasons there. Number one, the party has argued for a long time that New

Hampshire is not representative of the Democratic electorate.

Now you might question whether New Hampshire is really representative of the Republican electorate,

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