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One year since the start of Now It's History

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One year ago, I began my first post for Now It’s History with a look at Labor Day as a presidential campaign milestone.

There were more questions than answers. For one thing, the authorship of Labor Day itself hadn’t been settled: Was it the idea of Peter J. McGuire, one of the early leaders of the American Federation of Labor or of the similarly named and equally mustachioed Matthew Maguire, who was the secretary of the Central Labor Union?

Much more significantly, was Labor Day really a crucial turning point in presidential races?

At that point, Kamala Harris had a 3.4 point lead over Donald Trump in the 538 polling average. It was “brat summer,” …