Dayhoff Soundtrack: Explore Carroll: Patriotic, misty-eyed and corny about our Election Day By Kevin Dayhoff 11/09/08

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Explore Carroll: Patriotic, misty-eyed and corny about our Election Day By Kevin Dayhoff 11/09/08

Patriotic, misty-eyed and corny about our Election Day

(From November 8, 2008 after the 2008 general election…)

By Kevin Dayhoff Posted on www.explorecarroll.com 11/09/08 EAGLE ARCHIVE

Last Tuesday, after two years, 45 debates and $2.4 billion spent, American voters finally had their day. Is it just me, or does $2.5 billion seem an obscene amount of money for a country to spend on politics?

Nonetheless, I recently read an article in the London Sunday Times which stated: "This may seem a lot, but Americans annually spend $8 billion on hair care products, $64 billion on soft drinks ... so $2.4 billion isn't too much to pick the leader of the free world."

In Carroll County, it was good to see that we maintained our proper priorities with the idea of having an Election Day food drive to support Carroll County Food Sunday.

By late afternoon, when I checked with Marty Radinsky and Frank Baylor, Carroll Countians had generously donated five huge 150 cubic foot containers of food for the needy.

Radinsky said he hopes "to build (the food collection effort) into a Carroll County habit for elections in the future."

I've always been unrepentantly, patriotically, misty-eyed and corny about Election Day. It's a wonderful day to celebrate being an American… http://explorecarroll.com/opinion/1509/patriotic-misty-eyed-corny-about-our-election-day/

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