Flinty Like Me...My life as a NH primary voter (funny)

[windansea]

John Kerry is coming to our firehouse again on Sunday. He's always at our firehouse.

I saw him the last time he came. That's when I finally understood why it's so great to be a New Hampshire primary voter. It was late November. My wife Hanna, our two children, and I had recently arrived in Hampton, N.H., for a three-month stay. Hanna was covering the Democratic primary campaign for the Washington Post. I was taking a leave from Slate to write a book about a sperm bank. I had planned to hole up in our rented beach house, pound out a draft, and ignore the primary. But a couple of weeks after we got there, she persuaded me to join her at a Kerry "Firehouse Chili Feed." The firehouse is just around the corner, and I figured that at least the kids and I could cadge a free dinner.

Kerry does a Firehouse Chili Feed almost every night he's in New Hampshire. (This is a strategy that may win him voters, but can't win him friends in the campaign van. It may also explain why his wife says she has spent only six nights with him in the past three months. Beano, Senator?)

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