I think I know why people get so exercised about things without fully understanding the situation. It's like when you hear about someone you know getting arrested for something that you know nothing about. You get all in a huff and march yourself down to the poe-leece station, so sure that a miscarriage of justice is happening to your good buddy, until you find that the guy you admired so much had stolen from the church, his wife, his kids, and the Salvation Army food kitchen. Then you take a different tone.
I bet I know what happened in Kentucky to cause this merry mixup. We used to be a nation of discrete (certainly not discreet) communities and towns. We minded our own business pretty well, and didn't fret too much about what was happening in Hooligan's Holler down the road.
But now! We listen to and watch the same "news" networks and so the problems of East Awful become our own. I have a hunch that the nattering nabobs on some of those networks got in panic mode on Election Day this week and told their audiences that horrible people - foreigners! free thinkers! Vegans! - were running for office, and the good people of Whoville should do all they can to prevent their elections.
So that must be why people in Kentucky ran on down to the polls to try to vote, only to find that there was no election this year in KY. Sensing skullduggery, they made a few calls, and the besieged secretary of state had to post the tweet below, which is real, to let the riled citizens know they had no vote in the New York City mayoral election, nor, for that matter, in the gubernatorial election in Virginia.
Well, he did apologize. And by cracky, I want to make my choice in the Omaha School Board runoff vote. That's gonna be a humdinger, come spring.
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