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Have you voted?!
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008Have you ever wondered why it is called a honeymoon? Or why they say its “raining cats and dogs”? Or why children across the country hang the symbolic equivalent of an old sock on the fireplace for Christmas? (With the potential of receiving coal, no less?)
While these ruminations are destined to give you a few minutes of deep thought, and likely enough midmorning diversion from what you should be doing, the answers are probably not be what you would expect.
So when I heard how voting day came about I just knew it would give you a little to chew on in your mid-afternoon sugar coma. Who the heck decided that a Tuesday in November would be an ideal day to fit your most sacred civic duty into your schedule? The first Tuesday of November is not exactly the epitome of convenience. Wouldn’t a Saturday be better? Or a national holiday so it wouldn’t put a kink in a workday? No one has Tuesday off!
