I know it's too late this go round, but we should seriously consider making
election day a national holiday. (Look, here's a bill
that does just that.) I've got no numbers on this, but there are
people who don't vote because they've decided that they don't have the time
to do so. Make it a holiday, and get people thinking that they should not only
vote but work the polls, watch the polls for their party, drag people out their
houses who haven't shown up yet, or just meet up in bars to watch the extended
coverage that would go along with it. It'd be like a big national gift that
we give ourselves. (We can start work on this Nov. 4.)
8:10 PM
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