[Tenacious 1]

in 1888 the year my grandmother was born there was a really bad snow storm through out the midwest (she was born in October) travel was not as easy then and NO ONE talked ever about the idea of postponing the election

I'm gonna have to roll an eye here.

I don't know how old you are but it's safe to say you were at least too young to remember the blizzard of 1888. The hills were higher back then. People walked thru 4' feet of snow up those hills to vote. It was too cold for the horses back then... There were no phones to call each other and hardly anyone could read.... But sure as I'm telling you now, NO ONE talked about the idea of postponing the election for that silly snow storm.

See what I mean? There is a bit too much conviction in your assertion. :o)

I get your point. I don't know of a presidential election that has ever been postponed for weather.

[Nifster]

Elections weren’t cancelled ( or even hinted at being cancelled) back then. My point was simply (and I knew my grandmother well,God rest her soul) that this silliness of somehow cancelling or postponing an election because of weather is just plain stupid. I just think that folks talking like this haven’t stopped to think about what people went through in years gone by in order to vote. Hell if people in Iraq can walk for miles in order to cast a ballot should we expect to do less?