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Um, if I’m not mistaken, Illinois polls don’t close for another hour.

And it probably will.

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Oh, that’s charming. I’m sorry, I didn’t know you wrote that.
I didn’t… That was Mozart… Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart…

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already called by Fox News

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BS would stay in no matter what-virus or not. He’s a narcissist in the same vein as trump. It’s not in his nature to do what’s best for others.

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Fox…

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I thought Reagan fired them all. How did they get their jobs back?

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It’s wild to think of midway operating without a tower. It’s in the middle of a huge residential area.

One in, one out…but still. The southwest jet wheels are down over my house. We might be corona virus causalities of a sort.

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It’s not a winning message in the other 49 states either.

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AP results for IL showing up at TPM.

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Most air traffic control is not even near the airport, much less up in a tower. Towers are usually ground control (i.e. traffic cop of the planes driving around on the taxiways, to the gates, etc.)

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Meh, no reason for government intervention in private Enterprise. The aircraft carriers should negotiate between themselves to handle it.

Tax cuts for all!

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Weird.

Did the poll closing times get changed because of COVID…?

Midway - the bus station of airports.

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polls close at 7pm CDT.
however, a few precincts will remain open until 8 due to snafus earlier in the day

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Ah, gotcha. TY.

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Oh good. In the movie AIRPLANE! (My reference for all things flight related) they looked busier than that.

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You think so? At this point? My Bernie-nuts daughter is in her apartment, fighting panic attacks … she hasn’t mentioned him lately.

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I think he calls it by this weekend.

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7:00 CST close apparently.

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