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Message: <blockquote data-quote="daddyimmo" data-source="post: 3312696" data-attributes="member: 110639"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 26px"><span style="color: darkgreen">Why we vote on Tuesday...</span></span></span> </p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: navy">You've studied the issues and cast your ballot. Now all that's left to do is bide your time until the results start coming in for John McCain and Barack Obama. To help you in that effort, we introduce a list of election fun facts for your brain-candy pleasure.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: navy"><strong>Why do we vote on a Tuesday... in November?</strong></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: navy"></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: navy">The short answer: We used to be a nation of farmers.  </span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: navy"></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: navy">The long answer: Congress chose November because the harvest was over and the weather wouldn't be bad enough to prevent people from traveling. </span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: navy"></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: navy">As for Tuesday, people used to have to travel overnight to their polling location. (In 1845, horse was the preferred method of transport.) In an effort to avoid religious days of rest, Congress chose Tuesday, leaving Monday and Wednesday as travel days. Tuesday was voting (and horse-resting) day.</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>

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