  urlLink BarlowFriendz: Postponing Democracy : "I heard over the radio that, according to Newsweek magazine, the Department of Homeland Security asked the Justice Department last week to review what legal steps would be needed to delay the vote if an attack occurred on the day before or on election day. Come again? Even during the Civil War and both World Wars, presidential elections were held on schedule. I can imagine no terrorist attack that would justify postponing them now, unless, of course, the administration were seeking a reason to do it anyway. Even if Al-Qaeda were to pop off a tactical nuke on Wall Street November 1, reducing me and lower Manhattan to our elemental constituents, I would want the election to proceed on schedule. I vote absentee anyway. " 
