It's Wednesday, November 6, 2024.

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

Well, it was an election night for the ages.

Now, just remember, we went into the 2024 national election being told that it was one of the closest races in all of presidential history.

Polls, surveys, media pundits, everyone said the race is close.

There were indications coming from the Republican camp that they did not believe the race was going to be so close,

but they didn't offer

hard data for public consumption. On the other hand, the media seemed to argue that there was a

turn in momentum towards the Democratic ticket just in the last days and hours of the campaign.

As it turned out, nothing like that was happening at all. It was a huge night, and it was a huge

night for the Republican ticket. It was an historic night for former President Donald J. Trump.

He became only the second man in American history to be elected to a second term as president

discontinuous with the first term. Thus, he will be both the 45th and the 47th

president of the United States. Before you go and look it up, the other president was Grover

Cleveland in the 19th century. Let's just say, it's been a while. The election began pretty much

as had been predicted, and thus you had several states, including

the states of Georgia and North Carolina, that were among the seven so-called swing states

that we all knew would determine the election. Both of the candidates were aiming for the

electoral college count of 270. It looks like former President Trump will exceed that, though the final count is not yet known.

What is known is that the predictions of an extremely close race were not correct.

Now, I pointed out at the time and tried to warn us all that even as polls are presented as

instruments of, say, scientific measurement, they are actually also weapons of political warfare.

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