“We all want to vote for something, not against something”: The answer to “negative partisanship” and the path to sustaining hope
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🗓️ 5 November 2024
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Summary
On Election Day, “negative partisanship,” whereby we vote against the candidates we oppose more than for those we support, is on the rise. As a result, even if our candidates win, we will be less excited than relieved that at least the “worse” candidates lost. And if our candidates lose, our discouragement will only deepen. Never in my lifetime has America needed hopeful, positive, gracious Christians more than she does today.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, November 5th, 2024, and this is the Daily Article podcast. Welcome. I'm Chris |
| 0:08.8 | Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article by co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:16.2 | Today's presidential election will be historic no matter who wins. Kamala Harris will become our first female |
| 0:22.6 | president or Donald Trump will become only the second president to win another White House term |
| 0:28.3 | after losing a first attempt at re-election. Mr. Trump was born in the first year of the baby boom generation, |
| 0:35.1 | 1946, and Kamala Harris in the last, 1964. |
| 0:40.1 | Overseas votes could decide the election. |
| 0:43.3 | Nearly half of 2020's electorate have already cast ballots this year. |
| 0:48.3 | In a nation that has been split 50-50 since 2000, seven different outcomes are deemed most likely by the Washington Post, one of which |
| 0:57.3 | is a tie in the Electoral College. Counting the votes will extend beyond tonight, as could |
| 1:02.6 | determining the outcome of the presidential race. Whatever else happens, at least the political |
| 1:07.8 | ads will stop. Nearly $1 billion has been spent on them over the last week, |
| 1:14.7 | most of it targeting my TV, or so it seems. Voter fatigue, anxiety, and fear have escalated as |
| 1:22.5 | the campaign nears its end. Some are undoubtedly excited to vote for their candidates, but others are not. Why is this? |
| 1:30.7 | Forty years ago, President Ronald Reagan delivered a radio address to the nation about the upcoming |
| 1:36.3 | election. In it, he said, as you discuss the election with family and friends in your homes and |
| 1:41.8 | neighborhoods, I think there's one thing we can all agree on. |
| 1:45.0 | We all want to vote for something, not against something. We want to vote for a better America, |
| 1:51.0 | for a stronger country with our people pulling together, a future of peace filled with hope and new opportunity, |
| 1:57.0 | a future where our progress is limited only by our dreams and determination, |
| 2:02.7 | and where Americans are working because America is working. |
| 2:06.7 | End quote. |
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