[Magdalen] Election

[ME Michaud]

My mother used to lift me up to watch her mark her ballot.
When Adlai Stevenson lost to Eisenhower, we talked about her grave
disappointment tempered with her hope for the future (whch included me).
She voted for Nixon because Kennedy was a Catholic. By then I was my adult
height, so didn't need lifting.
-M


In my Upper Midwestern family there was traditionally no mystery.   They
> all just voted a straight Republican ticket
>