Seriously…

I was just listening to Al Franken interview Howard — and the Chairman told the following paraphrased story…

~~A woman came up to me at the airport the other day and said ~Oh Governor Dean, I think you’re doing such a great job!~ [Dean imitating the woman’s animated tone] and I said ~well make sure you vote on November 7th.~

She said that she couldn’t vote in Vermont anymore because she’d moved down to Maryland. So I said ~have you registered to vote there?~

And she ~no.~~~ [Howard conveyed the sheepishness of this response.]

~So, don’t complain then!~ Dean then said, as if to indicate what he had really wanted to say to the woman.

Since my mother-in-law just moved back to the D.C. area from Vermont, and just ran into Howard Dean this past week and told him she thought he was doing a great job, well…

I’d be willing to bet a round of beers at the O.P. that it was her. And, a phone call will certainly be made this evening to confrim.

But, according to the Maryland voter information page, “registration will be closed from August 23, 2006, to September 24, 2006, and October 18, 2006, to November 19, 2006.”

So, I don’t think any Dr. Governor guilt is going to work here.