From a Nashua living room to the front line of the Cold War, a personal appreciation of President Jimmy Carter

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One of the great privileges of living in New Hampshire is the front-row seats the Presidential Primary gives us for national politics. My folks took every opportunity to get to candidate events and to expose their kids to the experience.  They were not activists or party operators.  They just believed in the process of Democracy and there was no better place to witness it.

Lemenade: General election

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After all my worries pre-primary, the primary went fine.  People were cheery and nice, for the most part, and things went fairly smoothly.  I realized that I had been worrying for nothing, until we heard a couple of people talk about how they were going to come and challenge people at the general election.

Sigh.