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When local races are on the ballot, the candidates can usually be found outside in the parking lot, trading good-natured jibes with the voters as they enter. Seldom is there a cross word exchanged. Even the verbal parlays and campaign rhetoric are delivered with a smile — instead of a pitchfork in the back.
1 think that these are scenes which have probably long since faded from the precincts in the sprawling suburbs.
When I voted at Scrabble early Tuesday morning, I beat even the partisan boosters to the polling place. There was not a banner or poster to be found. I was almost disappointed not to find anyone attempting a last-minute pitch for their chosen candidate.
Later, the “Dukakis/Bentsen,” “Bush/Quayle,” “Dawkins,” “Robb,” and “Slaughter” banners and posters
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