Today I made my annual trip to “Sweet Home Alabama” to share our best guesses about next year’s election with a major manufacturing organization.

We are 38 months from the 2024 U.S. presidential election, although not a day passes without political “news” from the 2024-focused Trump world . . .

Well, it’s Election Eve . . . and to borrow the words of the late President Gerald Ford, “our long national nightmare” of this campaign season is about to be over . . .