A commentary by Bob Barney

Do you believe in democracy? What form of government is the United States? Is it a democracy, a Republic, or something else that unfortunately has been lost in the past few generations? Constitutionally speaking, America is what is called a "constitutional Republic form of democracy.” We are not as many scholars understand, a purely democratic society. Our forefathers knew that democracies can never last more than a few generations and that the only hope of our government to survive many generations was to form a public form of government. This begs the question, what were they trying to protect? What was the founding principle of our way of life that our forefathers wanted to preserve, protect, and maintain? We see that it was a democratic form of government. So is the Republic of the United States of America the end means of what the founding fathers were attempting to create back in 1789? No, friends, the most important principle to the founding of this nation is a biblical principle which you probably are unaware of. The word “democracy” or "Republic” is not found in the Bible. We all know the Bible is God's word to us and we know what was brought forth in the Gospel of Jesus Christ was concerning a coming Kingdom of God. This Kingdom would occur on earth upon his return at the end of this age. Christ died for our sins--many know this, but in addition, do you know what else Christ bought for us with His death? He brought us freedom. Freedom from sin, freedom from the devil, and freedom from the penalty of death by his resurrection! (see: Freedom and the Bible)

Walker is a man of faith who has lived most of his life as a committed Christian. No man is perfect, including me. George Washington was absolutely right when he said, "Perfection falls not to the lot of humanity." "Herschel's story is one of redemption and hope,"...

By Chuck Norris

 

Liberal mainstream media have used every underhanded dirty trick and tactic to try and stop Herschel Walker from winning the Georgia U.S. Senate election. But the fact is, Walker is still in the ring fighting. He deserves to win. Let me tell you why.

First, if you didn't know, Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker is set to face off against incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock in a runoff election on Tuesday, Dec. 6, after both candidates failed to get at least 50% of the vote in the midterm race earlier this month.

Let me share with you seven reasons why my wife, Gena, and I passionately believe every American should rally immediately behind Herschel Walker. I'm going to tell you what mainstream media won't tell you about him.

7. Herschel's upbringing shows he truly understands and empathizes with the struggles of average Americans. He wasn't raised with a silver spoon, not even close.

• Herschel Walker was born on March 3, 1962, in Augusta, Georgia, to Willis and Christine Walker into a financially backward family. He was one of seven children of his parents.

• Herschel grew up in Wrightsville, Georgia. He was an obese child through the first 11 years of his life and was physically very inactive. He showed little interest in sports and was not an athletic kid. He seldom went out of his house; instead, he spent most of his time reading books and poetry at his home.
• • Walker had stuttering issues in his childhood. In addition, he dealt with other health problems, such as nosebleeds and joint disorders. He faced a lot of bullying at school, which led to severe self-image issues. As a result, he had a very hard time fitting in with other kids at his school.
  • However, by the time he was in the seventh grade, Herschel had decided to turn his life around. He began sprinting hard, controlled his diet and lost a lot of weight in just one year. In addition, he also practiced speaking in front of the mirror for hours to overcome stuttering. He gave most of the credit for his newfound motivation to his mother and said that she was the one who inspired him to love himself and be physically fit.

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'If you certify today, the only thing you will be certifying is your corruption'

Arizona Republican Kari Lake on Election Night, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. (Video screenshot)

First published Thanksgiving 2008

One of the most popular stories ever told is about the first Thanksgiving. School children are taught time and time again of how in the Autumn of 1621, the pilgrims ate alongside the Indians in celebration of a successful harvest.  Although they did have a three-day feast in celebration of such bounty, this "first Thanksgiving" was not a holiday but simply a gathering. There is little evidence that this feast of thanks led directly to our modern Thanksgiving Day holiday. Thanksgiving can, however, be traced back to 1863 when President Lincoln became the first president to proclaim Thanksgiving Day. The holiday has been a fixture of late November ever since.

Let us take a closer look at just what took place leading up to that event and then what happened in the centuries afterward that finally gave us our modern Thanksgiving.

The Pilgrims who sailed to this country aboard the Mayflower were originally members of the English Separatist Church. They were NOT the Puritans that we read so much about. Puritans did not believe in separating themselves from society, as the Pilgrims did. They had earlier fled their home in England and sailed to Holland (The Netherlands) to escape religious persecution. There, they enjoyed more religious tolerance, but they eventually became disenchanted with the Dutch way of life, thinking it ungodly. Seeking a better life, the Separatists negotiated with a London stock company to finance a pilgrimage to America. Most of those making the trip aboard the Mayflower were non-Separatists but were hired to protect the company's interests. Only about one-third of the original colonists were Separatists.

A proud farmer worth listening to...what abundance we have been given by God and what an enormous responsibility does the farmer have on his shoulders. Here is Joel Salatin who understands just that and who calls himself a Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer. He spoke at Hillsdale last week and it was a riveting and engaging speech. 

When we look through our plate at dinner, what do we see?  Imagine the farms on the other side, the foodscape on the other side, the nutritional commitment on the other side.  Dear folks, we need to make our menus agree with what we know and believe in our minds.

  What I propose here is a long-term solution, an abundant solution, a people-affirming solution.  God help us to love it, do it, embrace it. ~ JS

            This spring when Russia invaded Ukraine, fertilizer prices increased in some cases 400 percent and global grain shipments sputtered, our farm didn’t feel anything because we don’t buy fertilizer and we don’t buy foreign grain.  Suddenly our years of being marginalized by the agri-industrial complex inverted and interest in our methods and madness exploded.  Both farmers and non-farmers began asking “how do we disentangle from the system?”

            “Just in time,” the darling inventory phrase of recent decades, changed to “just in case” as supply lines fractured.  Culturally, a society detached from menial life tasks like farm chores and kitchen duties, suddenly found itself vulnerable to unforeseen fragilities.  The food and farming sector goal switched from efficiency to resiliency.  In the spring of 2020, as covid’s black swan permeated the world, store shelves went bare.  Farmers euthanized (that means killed and threw away) millions of chickens, turkeys, and hogs because mega-processing plants couldn’t maintain operations.

            At our house, we neither worried nor feared because we had freezers full of meat and a basement full of canned garden produce.  I don’t say all this proudly; I say it gratefully, and as a challenge to everyone:  freedom comes from participation.  We’ve spent a couple of generations exiting historically normal tasks and behavior, from integrating livestock and crops, growing gardens, buying locally and cultivating domestic culinary arts.  We even abandoned breast feeding our babies for a couple of decades.

            We thought squeezable cheese and subcontracting kitchen duties to mega-corporate entities, replacing decomposition with chemical fertilizer, honey with refined sugar, and butter with hydrogenated vegetable oil would launch us into a new freedom nirvana.  But instead, it shackled us, enslaved us to nefarious scientists bringing us fertilizer and menus from laboratories instead of from God’s ecological womb.  Those of us who continued to participate in historically-normal farm chores, garden production, local or biologically grown sustenance, and domestic culinary arts are today enjoying more independence and freedom.  You cannot have freedom without participation.

            Here are two questions to ponder.  First, would America’s food system have convulsed as violently if instead of 300 mega-processing facilities employing 5,000 people apiece we funneled our food through 300,000 community-scaled 20-50-employee facilities?  The second question is when rocky disruptions affect our ship of state, would you rather navigate dangerous shoals in a maneuverable speedboat or an aircraft carrier that takes 10 miles to turn around? 

            Let’s examine what a food and farming parallel universe would look like by juxtaposing current objectives with the lunatic fringe alternative.

            1.  CHEAP FOOD VERSUS PRECIOUS FOOD.  If one thing defines American agriculture, it is dedication to cheap food.  American per capita expenditure on food is the lowest in the world; our per capita expenditure on health care is the highest.  Cheap food promised to give us spendable cash to attend football games and casinos, cruises and movies. 

            It created a love affair with Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOS) that became incubators for disease.  Floating on a sea of cheap energy, these facilities promised mechanized farming and pharmaceutical health.  Subtherapeutic antibiotic use created a world of superbugs like mRSA and cDiff.  A brand-new lexicon burst on the American vocabulary:  campylobacter, lysteria, E. coli, salmonella, food allergies, Type 2 diabetes:  these are nature, beaten and abused, on its knees, pleading and begging “Enough!”     

            Instead of God’s designed decomposition driving fertility, petroleum-based chemical fertilizers substituted, like an intravenous feeding tube replacing edible food. In short order, our agriculture system created a dead zone the size of Rhode Island in the Gulf of Mexico, infertile frogs, and three-legged salamanders.  And now our life expectancy is dropping; we’re addicted to pharmaceuticals; physical and emotional maladies plague our nation.

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And always a great reminder from Paul Harvey of God's chosen ones to till the soil and provide the bounty we so easily enjoy! So God Made A Farmer!

Exclusive: Chuck Norris spotlights scientific data about the amazing power of expressing gratitude

By Chuck Norris

For a lot of Americans, it's an understandable struggle this year to be thankful and celebrate Thanksgiving.

The American dream has felt a bit like a nightmare for too many:

• Inflation is at a 40-year high, costing Americans $445 more in expenses every month.
• Mortgage rates are at a 20-year high. (The Fed raised interest rates six times this year alone.)
• Economic experts say a full-blown recession is imminent (The largest shipping mogul just reported that "dark economic clouds are on the horizon.")
• According to the 2022 Personal Capital Wealth and Wellness Index, only 53% of Americans are in a position to handle an unforeseen $500 expense without worry.
• And most painful of all, as gas, grocery and house prices skyrocket, average middle-class Americans are suffering simply to pay for essentials like food and shelter.

I'm a firm believer that breakthroughs often come through brainpower and perseverance. But I've learned another lesson the hard way and by helping others: Breakthrough can also come through brokenness—our times of trouble, trial and even tragedy. And there's no better proof for that than at Thanksgiving time and in particular reflection of what the Pilgrims originally endured.

A few years ago, USA Today reported on a multiple-university study on the power of gratitude. The researchers discovered that gratefulness really is medicine for the soul. It can make you both healthier and happier.

The researchers found that those who practiced a thankful attitude lifted their moods, felt less stress and depression, felt less hostile, had lower blood pressure and had lower risks of several disorders, including phobias, bulimia and addictions to alcohol, nicotine and even food.

Gratefulness even can help us stop binging and mood eating over the holidays. And with studies showing that the average American gains seven pounds between Thanksgiving and Christmas, that's great news about which we all can be thankful!

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The myth of white privilege says blacks are arrested and incarcerated at a higher rate due to systemic racism that exists in the law enforcement and court systems. However white privilege isn’t real, and we’re going to prove that institutional racism isn’t the cause, but the breakdown in the family unit and uneducated people who make bad life choices are the real causes of the problem. We will answer these questions:

Do Blacks Commit More Violent Crimes Than Whites? And Why Are Blacks More Likely to Become Criminals

Racism against Blacks?

Black vs White Crime Statistics

Black vs. White Crime Statistics Read the entire Plain Truth here!

Men, women in uniform often face crisis when they return from battle

By WND News Services

 

(FAITHWIRE) – A pastor and chaplain is on a mission to help struggling veterans find peace. Greg Wark, co-author of the new book, “The War Fighter’s Soul, Engaging in the Battle for the Warrior’s Soul,” revealed the dire circumstances many men and women in uniform face when they come home from battle.

And while the mental health crisis among veterans is continuing to get attention, he said it’s nothing new.

“We’ve had maybe 27 years of peace in our entire existence in America,” Wark told CBN’s Faithwire. “The rest of it’s been time when our veterans are fighting and dying – and for our freedoms.”

The suicide crisis among veterans is well-documented. According to the Centers for Disease Control, “Tragically, out of the 130 suicides per day in 2019, 17 of those lives lost were veterans.”

Wark said he’s been working with those returning from battle for nearly three decades, helping them navigate marriage, life, alcoholism, and other struggles. Despite his successes, mental health struggles persist for many.

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'America's comeback starts right now'

Former President Donald Trump announces his 2024 presidential campaign on Tuesday night, Nov. 15, 2022, from his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida. (Video screenshot)

By Joe Kovacs

PALM BEACH, Florida -- President Donald Trump late Tuesday made the announcement that he had been teasing his supporters with for months – his plans for the 2024 presidential race.

He's in.

"I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the United States," Trump said to loud cheering at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach.

"This will not be my campaign. This will be our campaign together because the only force strong enough to defeat the massive corruption is you, the American people."

"America's comeback starts right now," he added. "Unlike other presidents, I kept my promises."

"I am running because I believe the world has not seen their true glory of what this nation can be."

"First, we have to get out of this ditch."

"We are Americans and we do not have to endure what has taken place in Washington, D.C."

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Biden Admin To Extend COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

Take the time to watch - you will NOT forget this video.

Zephaniah 2:1-3 tells us this, “Gather together! Gather together,

O shameless nation— before the decree is brought forth, before the day passes away like chaff, before Lord’s burning anger comes upon you, before the day of Lord’s anger comes upon you! Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land who have executed His judgment. Seek righteousness; seek meekness! Perhaps you will be hidden on the day of the Lord’s wrath.”

We do not like to think about God in this manner. We like to think that God is loving, and He is, but God does not turn a blind eye to sin, He also judges, and He disciplines, and yes, He gets angry. We see that God brought judgment in the day of Noah as Genesis 6:13 tells us, “Then God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh is coming before Me, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Behold, I am about to bring ruin upon them along with the land.”

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'In 2020, I got 1.1 million more votes than Ron D got this year'

President Donald J. Trump waves at the conclusion of his remarks Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020, at the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse and Museum in Jupiter, Florida, on the Environmental Accomplishments for the People of Florida. (Official White House photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)

By Joe Kovacs

 

PALM BEACH, Florida – It didn't take long for the 2024 presidential fire to get sparked.

On the day after Election Day 2022, former President Donald Trump ignited a heated 2024 battle for the White House by taunting possible presidential candidate, Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who crushed his Democrat opponent by nearly 19 points Tuesday night.

Trump posted on his own Truth Social: "Now that the Election in Florida is over, and everything went quite well, shouldn't it be said that in 2020, I got 1.1 Million more votes in Florida than Ron D got this year, 5.7 Million to 4.6 Million? Just asking?

On Sunday at a rally in Miami, Trump teased an important announcement he would be making a week after Election Day at his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach.

But suddenly there are Republican voices urging him to delay a potential presidential announcement until after the congressional races are finalized.

DeSantis declared upon his overwhelming victory: "Florida is where woke goes to die."

"We not only won election, we have rewritten the political map," he added, likely referring to his double-digit win in Miami-Dade County, a Democratic stronghold that is 70% Hispanic.

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Bob Barney- MY TAKE

Monday I wrote an article which stated... " If the democrats can be stopped from stealing millions of votes this year, there should be a great Republican Red Sweep at the polls. "

Guess what, the prediction came true.  Not the red wave, but the democrats stealing elections.   I think anyone who truly believes that John Fetterman really won in Pa. being a popular TV star also believes that Epstein killed himself, and the democracy still exist in America today.  One think predictable about totalitarian regimes is not only do they rig elections, they want the masses to know they rigged it!  This demoralizes voters and keeps them from going to vote again.  It works.  To make this message clear, they wanted to show the world, that they could take an imbecile moron who can't even talk or think, and get him elected!  Again. does anyone really believe this man got as many votes as he did. In fact do you believe the Biden got 81 Million votes (more than any president EVER) when he couldn't he fill up a bathroom sized room with supporters (and Trump filled football fields)?  It's not possible.  It also isn't possible that the party in power ever can do so well in an off year election with runaway inflation, sky high gas prices and violent crime ridden cities.    It's not even believable.  For example, see the graph below for so-called very popular presidents in their off year elections.

We will be lucky if Republicans gain 12 seats!

In Monday's article I wrote: "However, be warned! Democrats are vote stealers extraordinaire! They get dead people resurrected from their graves, and stuff ballots early and often.  We may see Republicans win in droves tonight, only to watch recount after recount take away these wins.  It happens every election.  Ever notice the recounts only end when the democrat wins- even by 1 vote!  I've seen 17 recounts, but each recount had the republican winning. Then on count number 18, the democrat wins and the recounts end! The longer these ‘recounts’ in sketchy districts drag on, the more “BLUE” the totals become. Why is that, do you think?"

America is in captivity, as God warned us thousands of years ago. God told us that if we failed to obey His Laws, His SABBATH'S, and His ways, we would become slaves to a foreign enemy who will be living among us.  God (Jesus) said:

"If you follow my statutes and keep my Commandments and observe them faithfully, I will send you the seasonal rains. The land will then yield its crops, and the trees of the field will produce their fruit.  Your threshing season will overlap with the grape harvest, and your grape harvest will overlap with the season of planting grain. You will eat your fill and live securely in your own land.  I will grant you peace in the land, and you will be able to sleep with no cause for fear. I will rid the land of wild animals and keep your enemies out of your land.   {What a perfect picture of the USA in the 1850'5-1950's!}

"In fact, you will chase down your enemies and slaughter them with your swords.   { Until Korea-Vietnam, we didn't lose a war!}.   Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand! All your enemies will fall beneath your sword.  I will turn toward you, make you productive, increase your numbers and uphold my covenant with you.  You will have such a surplus of crops that you will need to clear out the old grain to make room for the new harvest!

THE CURSE ON US

"However, if you do not listen to me or obey all these commands, and if you break my covenant by rejecting my statutes and treat my regulations with contempt, and refusing to obey my Commandments,  I will punish you. I will bring sudden terrors upon you—wasting diseases and burning fevers that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will plant your crops in vain because your alien enemies will eat them. I will turn against you, and you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will run even when no one is chasing you! {Like President Obama and others to come, plus the Liberal Left who hates us! They despise who we really are! Now these, our enemies are ruling over us!}

"And if, in spite of all this, you still disobey me, I will punish you seven times over for your sins.  I will break the pride you have in your own power by making the skies as unyielding as iron and the earth as hard as bronze.All your work will be for nothing, for your land will yield no crops, and your trees will bear no fruit. {Famine coming to the USA! maybe this coming winter }

"If even then you remain hostile toward me and refuse to obey me, I will inflict disaster on you seven times over for your sins. I will send wild animals that will rob you of your children and destroy your livestock. Your numbers will dwindle, and your roads will be deserted. And if, in spite of all this, you refuse my correction and still go against me;  then I{Jesus) myself will be hostile toward you. I will personally strike you with calamity seven times over for your sins.  I will send armies against you to carry out the curse of the covenant you have broken. When you run to your towns for safety, I will send a plague to destroy you there, and you will be handed over to your enemies. {The invasion by our enemies in our own soil! Like 9-11}I will destroy your food supply, so that ten women will need only one oven to bake bread for their families. They will ration your food by weight, and though you have food to eat, you will not be satisfied.

" If in spite of all this you still refuse to listen and still remain hostile toward me,  then I will give full vent to my hostility. I myself will punish you seven times over for your sins.

Then you will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters. { Cannibalism/ abortion } I will destroy your pagan shrines and knock down your churches. I will leave your lifeless corpses piled on top of your lifeless idols, and I will despise you.

 I will make your cities desolate and destroy your places of pagan worship. I will take no pleasure in your offerings that should be a pleasing aroma to me.  Yes, I myself [Jesus HIMSELF} will devastate your land, and your enemies who come to occupy it will be appalled at what they see. {Even our enemies will be shocked!}.  I will scatter you among the nations and bring out my sword against you. Your land will become desolate, and your cities will lie in ruins.  {Our fate is that we will be overtaken by our aliens living among us and selling us into slavery, winding up in other foreign lands.}  Then at last the land will enjoy its neglected Sabbath years as it lies desolate while you are in exile in the land of your enemies. Then the land will finally rest and enjoy the Sabbaths it missed.

"Yes, as long as it lies desolate it will have rest, the rest it did not have during your Sabbaths, when you lived there.   As for those of you who are left, I will fill their hearts with anxiety in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will frighten them, so that they will flee as one flees from the sword and fall when no one is pursuing.  {PANIC ATTACKS.. Mass panic attacks will be caused by TERRORISM! Terrorism = panic!}.  Though no one is chasing you, you will stumble over each other as though fleeing from a sword. You will have no power to stand up against your enemies.  You will die among the foreign nations and be devoured in the land of your enemies.  Those of you who survive will waste away in your enemies’ lands because of their sins and the sins of their ancestors. {We will be captives, probably Europe and the Middle East}... The alien who lives amongst you shall rule over you!  You will serve them, and not the other way around."

I realize that these are not pretty words.  Everyone wondered why the democrats were not worried about this election, while letting murderers walk free, mandating vaccines and imprisoning their enemies.  I think the explanation is clear.  When you can steal elections at will, and the population doesn't fight back, why should you fear anything?

Exclusive: Joseph Farah cites 2 recent injustices as more incentive to 'take our nation back'

By Joseph Farah

 

We've waited a long time for this.

I suggest there are two things to do today without fail – VOTE AND PRAY!

Voting has never been more important. It's a matter of saving our country – nothing short of that. This could be a pivotal election. It must be. It's deadly serious. There is no excuse for not voting this time. It has never before been more important.

I cannot promise you a fair election. I cannot promise you some of it will not be rigged. I cannot promise you that the Democrats will not try to fix it. I cannot promise you that we will win all of the races we deserve to win. I CAN promise you there will be shenanigans. One side has demonstrated its willingness to cheat in election after election.

But there is no question we must try. We must succeed. We must bring about the expected RED WAVE to save this nation as best we can – peacefully, under the law.

Do you want to know what's tragically sad?

For the first time in America, at election time, two of our heroes, Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips, of True the Vote, who courageously worked for two years of the film "2000 Mules" proving that the 2020 election was spectacularly sabotaged, were being held in JAIL – until yesterday. They were political prisoners – victims of LAWFARE – illegal action undertaken as part of a hostile campaign against our country. But they were finally freed.

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Unless candidates commit to oppose noncitizen voting, it’s just more meaningless double-talk.

With a critical midterm election less than two weeks away, America is awash in rhetoric about voter suppression, election integrity, and “threats to democracy.” While those are serious issues, they have been invoked far too often lately by left-wing partisans as attack lines against opponents and to distract from their own political failures. Lost in the political spin and 24-hour cable news programming is a very real and underreported threat to our democracy: allowing noncitizens to vote in U.S. elections.

Noncitizen voting has become a priority agenda item for the anti-borders Left, right up there with blocking wall construction, advocating sanctuary laws, and counting noncitizens in the U.S. census. 

The motivation should be obvious by now. A large pool of noncitizens, most of whom have no understanding of America’s founding principles, can be easily swayed to vote a certain way in critical races. At that point, the floodgates can be opened for a slew of radical laws most Americans would not support.

The effort to push through illegal alien voting is already underway and yielding results in deep-blue jurisdictions. Towns in Vermont, California, and Maryland currently allow noncitizen voting in local elections. The New York City Council had passed a law giving the right to vote in city elections to alien residents of the city who are permitted to work in the United States. A state court later struck down the law in June of this year.

The latest effort is taking place in our nation’s capital. The D.C. City Council passed a measure this month that would only require someone to live in the city for 30 days before registering to vote. The measure still requires a review by Congress and a signature from Mayor Muriel Bowser.

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Americans coming together to lift up future of nation to God

Typically even more politically active than White evangelicals

Residents wave as Joe Biden's motorcade travels to the Somerset County Emergency Management Training Center in Hillsborough Township, New Jersey, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)

By WND News Services

(STUDY FINDS) -- It’s hard to remember now, given the attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, but the day after votes were cast, one theme stood out: voter turnout.

Every state in the nation saw higher turnout in 2020 than 2016, according to an analysis from the Pew Research Center. Overall, there were more than 158 million votes cast, according to the Federal Election Commission – nearly 22 million more than just four years prior.

Turnout will likely play an outsize role in the 2022 midterms, too, as voters determine what political party will have control of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate in January 2023. As a political scientist who studies the intersection of religion and politics, I am interested in which groups may have a strong impact on the balance of power. And if the data is any guide, there are two key communities' political analysts often overlook: atheists and agnostics.

Partisan divides

In 2008, almost 8% of the entire U.S. population claimed to be atheist or agnostic, according to my analysis of data from the Cooperative Election Study, or CES – an annual survey coordinated by a team at Harvard University. Atheists believe that there is no higher power in the universe, while agnostics contend that a higher power may exist but it’s impossible to know for certain.

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