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I've done my part. Last Wednesday my 92 year old father-in-law left Florida and moved in with us in Texas, so he didn't get to vote. He doesn't know the candidates or the issues anyway. A couple of years ago he said something about all of the politians being bought off by special intrest groups, corporations, or something like that. I was just trying to make conversation, and commented (in a very nice way) that "you must like John McCain, then." He said "John McCain? Who the hell is that? There's no such person." His tone implied that I had brought up someone obscure and irrelevant, or was making up a name of someone that didn't exist for the sole purpose of trying to embarrass him. Honestly, I thought McCain was common knowledge but if that was any indication of the breadth of knowledge of the elderly vote in Palm Beach County, I KNOW why they have such a huge problem following ballots.