This year, November 4 fell on a Tuesday, making it election day. Five elections ago, in 1992, November 4 was a Wednesday, the day after voting day, and it was about as good a day as days get. We won in Alabama. We got Hank.
Yesterday, Hank turned 16. He's still too young to vote, but not too young to work hard for the candidate of his choice (Chellie Pingree, in the race for Congress from Maine's first congressional district) and not too young to get a job in Washington as a page for the U.S. Senate, starting next January.
In fact, all his political work is interfering with his chance to take driver's ed and do what 16-year-olds usually like to do, so drivers in southern Maine can relax for a little while longer; the Hankster's on the bandwagon, but not yet behind the wheel.
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