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Tom Crawford: Real election fun begins after Labor Day
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It’s a long-established political truism that a presidential race doesn’t really start until after Labor Day. The conventional wisdom is that people aren’t paying much attention to politics until that point in the calendar, so you shouldn’t take the early polls too seriously. This is one of those election years, however, where the old wisdom may no longer be applicable, thanks largely to the national emergence of Donald Trump.