Election Year Birds

Whitehall resident Ron Roginske has refreshed his original October 22, 2008 article in the Whitehall Ledger to reflect the 2024 candidates.

Have you ever thought how birds are very much like politicians and political parties? This realization came to me as I walked out on my deck one sunny morning and heard the loud overpowering squawking bird noises coming from a huge flock of blackbirds gathered in my yard trees. I thought, this noise sounds just like an election year!

While it may be a stretch to match the way we perceive birds with Democrat, Green, Libertarian, and Republican Party platfor...