Walt Whitman marvels at the tremendous forces of the electoral process, not with adjectives or to justify it with arguments; "instead, he commends the day by invoking the past. The journeys of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln were powered by this turbulent, often defective energy, says Whitman. We can look back on his observation, over a century ago, and feel encouraged."
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