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A tidbit of knowledge for the Palace readers living in Pennsylvania:

Lynn Swann has not bothered to vote in 20 of the last 36 elections he's had the opportunity to vote in. He says he frequently was out of the state on election day due to his job of being a sports commentator. The man's never heard of an absentee ballot? College students routinely get them. Members of the military serving overseas frequently use them. My grandfather, in the last year of his life, when he was paralyzed from the waist down, his blood sugar all out of whack and losing his sight, he still cared enough to get an absentee ballot and get it cast. But yet, Swann was too busy to be bothered? Or care?

DO we really want a man for governor who doesn't care to vote in 55.55% of the elections he's elegible to vote in? Makes you wonder why someone so uninterested in voting would WANT to be governor in the first place. Maybe that sports commentor gig has gotten boring?

Just something for all of you to think about and remember on Election Day.

Ed Rendell, by the way, hasn't missed voting in an election since 1980.

POLT = listening to "Flower" by the Pansy Division (and who became eligible to vote in the Spring Primary of 1987 and has missed only ONE election, primary OR General in the last 19 years.)

I say, if you're knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. - Calvin & Hobbes