Not the usual bustle of New Jersey folks on the 7:15 Midtown Direct this morning.
It seems a few citizens stayed back to vote, and catch a later train. It didn’t really register with me until our conductor offered a helpful reminder as our train pulled into Penn Station: “Today is Election Day. Polls are open until 9 p.m. in New York City, and 8 p.m. in New Jersey.”
It’s understandable on our line, as Chris Daggett (The Independent for Governor) might be courting the locals — he hails from Bernards Township, and an alumni of Ridge High School in Basking Ridge. Hope is alive until 8 p.m.!, as Jon Corzine and Chris Christie are speeding around the state, courting anyone that might listen to them. (read: not many.)
I was glad to avoid some wry commentary on the Yankees’ “Failure to Clinch” last night on my train, and their Utterly Utley undoing. The Bud Limes will have to stay on ice until Wednesday, as Chase Utley makes his way back to Wall Street, hair slicked back and feared, the Gordon Gekko of 2009.
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