Improbably, another Election Day is nearly upon us.

And starting around 7 a.m. on Tuesday, voters from Boston to the Berkshires will head to the polls to cast their ballots in races ranging from mayor and city council to school committee and select board.

And before someone jumps up and points out that there’s nothing remotely improbable about Election Day, that it’s on the calendar and mandated by law, a quick word before you try to bludgeon me with your yellowed and dog-eared copy of Robert’s Rules of Order .

I only say “improbably” because it feels like we were just voting in the September preliminary elections. And before that, it felt like we had just finished the interminable slog that was the 2024 general election.

But we live in the era of the permanent campaign. So here

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