I try to keep my personal politics off of this blog. I am not sure how successful I was when I was chronicling my work at the political conventions earlier this year, but I tried. My goal was to capture work-a-day experiences and write about the practical and logistical elements of my time there. I left the political opinions to my skilled co-workers from the Editorial departments. So, today, this day before Election Day, I am going to try and repeat that tone and talk a little bit about these last few days of the campaigns. You may have heard about the Rally in Grant Park scheduled for tomorrow night. My friends, John and Sabrina, have both managed to score a couple of the elusive 65000 tickets. The rest of us have been graciously invited by our Mayor to attend anyway. Not to be outdone, city officials quickly put together a scary list of steps they will be taking to manage the rally. Things like intermittent rolling street closures, controlled access, metal detectors. That sort of thing.

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