Election Day Morning

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Wrightwood Ave. looking west from Lakewood Ave.

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West Lincoln Park polling place (right) on Lakewood Ave. looking north from Wrightwood Ave.

Chicago news crews on the vote! The polling place at Wrightwood and Lakewood always attracts a crowd of television trucks, this morning saw four of the five (when I walked by) local stations covering the vote from that apparently critical corner. The polling place is in a VFW hall. There are train tracks that run down Lakewood, they are used less often these days but as recently as two years ago the neighborhood could look forward to "Tuesday Train Day" when two and three car freight trains would crawl through the neighborhood.

Happy Mardi Gras!

Now go Vote! Well, if you live in one of those Super-Duper Tuesday States. If you are in New Orleans this morning here is a schedule of parades:

• Zulu - Uptown, 8 a.m.
• Rex - Uptown, 10 a.m.
• Elks Orleans - after Rex
• Crescent City - after Elks
• Argus - Metairie, 10 a.m.
• Jefferson Trucks - after Argus
• Elks Jefferson - after Jefferson
• Grela - West Bank, 11 a.m.

Don't miss Zulu or Rex. I still have the Rex doubloon that was tossed by the then Grand Marshall Ed McMahon.

Check out this site for video and web cams.

Update - Correction: I wrote this post too early this morning, Ed Mc Mahon was King of Bachus not King of Rex when I snatched a King of Bacchus doubloon out of the air after Ed Mc Mahon threw it from his throne/float on Canal Street. All that high jumping finally came in handy.

Some Good Primary Analysis

These Youtube videos contain some good and interesting analysis from two political veterans who are involved with the PR giant Edelman. Toby Moffett and Tony Blankley represent the Democrats and the Republicans respectively. This appears to be a weekly endeavour and at this early juncture both Toby and Tony appear to be way too even keeled to really go after one another but remember the election isn't until next November. This enterprise may take a few afternoons at McCormick & Schmick's on K Street during the next 43 weeks but I hope that they keep it up, the first two editions of T&T are pretty good.

Hat Tip: A family member at Edelman