Maryland's 92-Year-Old Green Party Nominee To Continue Peace Quest

Bob Auerbach may not have won a seat in the U.S. House but he got more than 4,600 votes.

  Maryland's 92-year-old Green Party nominee for Congress, Bob Auerbach, has a penchant for optimism. He stood outside the Greenbelt Community Center polling station on Election Day passing out literature in temperatures barely above freezing. He admitted, "I'm not hot, that's true." But he turned even the chilly weather to a positive, adding later, "You were fortunate if you were in the sun, you got a little warmth." Auerbach said he has had 12 operations on his left knee, his right eye is 95 percent blind, he has hearing aids in both ears and a metal plate in his left hip. But he preferred to talk about what he could do. "I still walk around without any cane," he said—a point he proved Tuesday when he walked to the polling station, …

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