november 4
May 7th, 2008
It’s morning, I’m baking bread and listening to the CBC. It occurs to me that I will be living in America on November 4th, when as Martina Fitzgerald, the radio-lady, says “Americans will vote for a new president.”
When I was in New York last month, the election excitement was palpable, with Obama buttons and t-shirts that felt like real enthusiasm, not just kitsch. And it’s displayed on real humans, not the internet or the Globe and Mail. So it will be even more thrilling to be in the country during actual elections. I won’t get to vote then–maybe I can volunteer to drive little old ladies to polling stations. Do they even do that in America?
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you might be allowed to drive little old ladies to the polling place - though it seems a bit more communist than we’re used to - but if you do drive them on november 4th, they will be sad because they will have missed the big event by two days…
No! Is my national media lying to me? I swear she said that it’s November fourth.
Wikipedia says the fourth too. What do you know that we don’t, Ms Bounds?