Election Day
November 04, 2008 09:04 AM
Life
Just before election day in 1968, a
fellow in advertising who worked for Nixon wrote a newspaper ad
that began,
"It will be
quiet on Tuesday. No speeches. No motorcades. No paid political
announcements. It's a very special day, just for grown-ups. America
votes Tuesday…and . . . on Tuesday, the shouting and the
begging and the threatening and the heckling will be silenced. It's
very quiet in a voting booth. And nobody's going to help you make
up your mind. So - just for that instant - you'll know what the man
you're voting for will do a thousand times a day for the next four
years. Now it's your turn." (from Bill Moyers Journal October 31, 2008 essay)
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