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November 2005

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A November Day - November 8

Today is the anniversary of my father's death. As always on this date, he has been in my thoughts. This is the first of those anniversaries on which I am older, by a few months, than he was the day he died. That still feels odd, to have outlived my father.

It's also election day, which ends a wonderfully low-key campaign period in my part of the county. One township's mayoral race brought about the best endorsement sentiment I've ever seen.

In the town, the incumbent mayor decided not to run for another term. Two members of the town's governing board decided they'd make runs for the job. One of them had been on the board longer, and a local newspaper endorsed him mainly for his years of experience.

When that paper repeated its endorsement today, a sentence was added to the effect that the other candidate would also be good in the job, and if you happened to like him better, the paper's editorial board thought you should go ahead and vote for him.

And since the results are in, I can tell you the man with less experience won. That's okay; the other one is still on the governing board.

A few elections back, in a neighboring town where the incumbent mayor was seeking another term, he was unopposed until quite late in the filing period. The opposing candidate announced that he didn't particularly want to be mayor, and was actually planning to vote for the incumbent. But he thought the man ought not to run without any opposition at all, so he was tossing his hat in the ring.

To no one's surprise, the incumbent won.

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