The Chosen People Who Can't Choose

After all the debates, the millions spent on commercials, the flash polling, the pretending to care about Social Security--it came down to my grandmothers. It has been 15 years since either side of my family has included them in a discussion of where to eat dinner, and the leader of the free world is going to be chosen by their inability to read a ballot. I'm pretty sure they were just looking for attention.

It doesn't shock me that some of the retired Jews in Palm Beach may have miscast their votes. Although both of my grandmothers, who live just...

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