8pm — the polls have closed. Election Day, a kind of sacred time. Thanks to all the candidates. Good luck to all the candidates.

Edward J. Gallagher, Bethlehem immigrant, retired, nearly 50 years as Professor of American Literature at Lehigh University, known as "Dr. G" and "Conan the Grammarian" to students, whose virtual world avatar "EdwardScholarhands" stares at you here, has reinvented himself as the Bethlehem Gadfly. View all posts by The Bethlehem Gadfly