3 Election Day.
Why it should be a public holiday: More people would vote (in theory)… America’s last line of defense on voter fraud could finally be a group of polling site volunteers with a median age under 84.
Why it should not be a public holiday: If we’re going to demand a new day off, let’s spend our capital on getting one that happens every year, not every four years (no, I don’t think we’d get off any Election Day other than the presidential election day, no matter how much YOU think the off-year local March primaries are equally important).