Election Day Ritual: Reading 'The Poor Voter'

Published November 2, 2004 at 12:00 AM EST

Commentator T.R. Reid discusses his Election Day ritual -- the reading of John Greenleaf Whittier's poem "The Poor Voter on Election Day."

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