It's Tuesday, November 5, 2024, Election Day in the United States of America.

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

Well, indeed, it is Election Day finally here, although tens of millions of Americans have already

voted, tens of millions of Americans are likely to go to the polls today. And there is at least a

projection of a pretty big turnout in terms of historic turnout percentages and raw numbers

headed into a presidential election. And that is because just about everyone in America

who is watching this election and understands what's at stake, they understand that there are big

issues in play. And thus, as I discussed yesterday, if there are people at this point who are

undecided, it must be because they are profoundly uninvested in the issues and thus in the future of this nation.

But here's something very interesting. As we go into Election Day, what are we being told?

We're being told what we've talked about for days, and that is that the election is incredibly close.

So close, as I warned yesterday, that you shouldn't take any numbers for granted. You should take none of these numbers at face value

because it takes time to assimilate these numbers responsibly and we've run out of time. But that doesn't

mean that the candidates and their parties and their campaigns have run out of time or that

figures in the media have run out of time in terms of pressing the case that the momentum is headed

one way or the other.

Frankly, we just don't know. But we're about to know, sort of. Just about every major newspaper

and news source, the streaming news channels and all the rest, they are telling us that the race

is close and they're trotting out some numbers in order to try to play some kind of numbers game.

But at this point, it is a game.

The only numbers that count at this point are the numbers that come down to votes.

And that's where the counting is going to become really, really acute.

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