Smarter than the average voter?
As usual, the kids got the day off from school yesterday. One of the school gymnasiums is used for voting, so the teachers get the day as a training day, and the kids stay home. So we take them voting with us -- Bonnie and I figure it's a good civics lesson, if nothing else.
Deval Patrick, the Dem. gubernatorial candidate (and our new governor-elect, as it turns out), had supporters who must have put up signs every three feet across the entire lawn of the school. There weer lots of other signs and placards, and people holding signs.
James is still learning how to read, so he didn't know what they said.
"They have the names of the candidates that are on the ballot," I explained.
"Oh, so they say 'vote for me,'" James remarked.
"Right," said I.
On the way out, James looked around at all the signs again.
"You know, Daddy," he said, "I don't think you should vote for a person just because they have the most signs."