My friend, I am not disappointed with these results, nor am I happy. What's the saying, "a tie is like kissing your sister?"

I'm waiting to see how - and if - the demographics of voter turnout changed. Did women really vote more on account of Roe? Did Generation Z get off their ass? Have we lost many of the old voters?

All of the issues you list matter, but how much? Again, the real loser in this election is polling. It keeps being either wrong or politized by the media for ratings, or something. Who takes the time to respond to a poll? Who answers an unknown phone number? I don't. Those who do are typically zealots or lonely. The sampling is not at all random. It's crap. All that really matters is the vote, which was a dead heat, still down to the wire. Like last time, and the time before that, and the election before...

I remain guardedly optimistic in my fellow citizens' sanity. Most days, anyway. We remain on the high wire.