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Molar, already root canaled, now planed and scaled. \u00a0This tooth has had a lot of attention, more than any other. \u00a0I hope it appreciates it all.<\/p>\n
Our votes have been cast and the lines, across the nation, seem to be long. \u00a0It’s now the midpoint of election day, votes still being made, yet polling place closing is much closer now than their opening. \u00a0Then the counting and the projecting and the analyzing and the harrumphing and might of beens and could have dones. \u00a0Joys and sorrows.<\/p>\n
Election time brings my fondest memories of my dad. \u00a0Watching the Eisenhower\/Stevenson race until the wee hours on our little black and white television. \u00a0Going out as a poll watcher to run numbers back to the Times-Tribune. \u00a0Dissecting the races, results. \u00a0Politics were, in the beginning, a bond. \u00a0In the end it was politics that drove us apart. \u00a0Vietnam. \u00a0Remember Vietnam?<\/p>\n
My first election as a voter was 1968. \u00a0Never missed an election since, many of them as active participant in party caucuses, conventions, campaigns. \u00a0Lot of time on the policy side, too, working Minneapolis City Council and the Minnesota State Legislature, even occasional forays out to DC. \u00a0Maybe politics have been my second vocation, running parallel to everything else.<\/p>\n
This one has felt more like more molar, in bad need of planing, scaling. \u00a0Give me a political Cavitron with which I can trim out excess verbiage, mendacity and cowardice.<\/p>\n
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