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7/7.Whitman, I believe, would be very proud to know that the American experiment continued to the present. Democracy is a wonderful thing, and we shouldn’t take it for granted. /end.

6/7.The United States is by no means perfect, but we commit ourselves every four years to come together and choose—I’ll say it again, a rare thing historically—and still a rare thing in the world we live in.

5/7.Whitman was deeply affected by the death of Lincoln, and wrote two of the most famous elegies in American literature about Lincoln: “O Captain! My Captain!” and “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d.”.

4/7.Yet, Whitman knew what it meant when citizens turned to weapons, not ballots, to solve their problems. He had seen the worst of the Civil War up close and personal as a nurse to wounded soldiers. He had seen the grievously wounded and the dead.

3/7.Blaine was publicly suspected of corruption; Cleveland was revealed to have fathered a child out of an affair. Mud was slung far and wide.

2/7.Walt Whitman wrote “Election Day, November, 1884” when voters were faced with the choice between the Democrat Grover Cleveland (Governor of New York) and the Republican James G. Blaine (Secretary of State).

1/7.I always share this poem whenever we are going as a nation to vote in an election. It really is a tremendous and historically rare thing that we do together when we participate in democracy, and this poem captures it so well. Walt Whitman, “Election Day, November, 1884”