Trump wouldn’t know who Guy Fawkes is. US Election Day falls on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November. It’s just a coincidence it happens to be the 5th this year. My comment was mostly a direct reply to OP.
It’s apparently a hold over from olden times when good Christian farmers weren’t going to skip church to travel to the county seat and vote. Do Monday is a travel day and Tuesday is when you vote. Or something like that.
Voting day and daylight savings time are the two immutable objects in American life.
Voting day and daylight savings time are the two immutable objects in American life.
Unless your George W Bush, in which case DST can be rescheduled by 2 weeks and cause everything with automatic time changes but no updates to be manually adjusted twice a year…
Nov 5th is election day.
Well, if that’s not foreshadowing. US Election Day = Guy Fawkes Day.
Trump wouldn’t know who Guy Fawkes is. US Election Day falls on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November. It’s just a coincidence it happens to be the 5th this year. My comment was mostly a direct reply to OP.
Why have it on a Tuesday? Why not on a weekend so more people aren’t at work?
Oh, yeah, that’s why.
It’s apparently a hold over from olden times when good Christian farmers weren’t going to skip church to travel to the county seat and vote. Do Monday is a travel day and Tuesday is when you vote. Or something like that.
Voting day and daylight savings time are the two immutable objects in American life.
Unless your George W Bush, in which case DST can be rescheduled by 2 weeks and cause everything with automatic time changes but no updates to be manually adjusted twice a year…