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The Washington state presidential primary ballots arrived in the mail this past week, giving us the opportunity to vote to determine who will be on the top of the tickets in November for the office of the president of the United States of America (kind of a big deal).

The first presidential election I remember was when I was just 5 years old. My parents were engaged politically, and I lived in a politically charged place.

Growing up in Philadelphia, reminders of the birth of our nation were on nearly every corner and the legacy of the Founding Fathers ever-visible. None of these men, thou...