The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff.
My dad was an absentee dad so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life and she deserved two parents which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.
Faith is an act of rational choice which determines us to act as if certain things were true and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.