For the first time since I have been old enough to vote I live in a place where my vote in a presidential election (the primary anyway) will actually mean something. It's kind of exciting. For the last three presidential elections I lived in places where, whether the primary or general election, the results were obvious long before election day for the given state. I think that will be true in Texas when the general election comes around, but for now, in the Democratic primary every vote really is going to mean something.
Texas has one of the oddest election procedures I've encountered. I voted first thing this morning, but the popular vote only goes to elect a portion of the delegates. Every Texan has the option tonight to attend their local caucus to vote yet again, this time to assign a second portion of delegates to one candidate or another. So essentially I got the chance to vote twice today in the same election. I don't pretend to understand, and honestly I don't really care to understand, and I'd have to be pretty fired up in the future to go through the caucus deal again, but for this time around I'm enjoying seeing how the process works.
My local caucus had about 60 people (which apparently is unheard of turn-out, with a typical group of 15 to 20 people) and there were some interesting characters there. The two gentleman I stood next to for most of the event were talking and discussing the last time they had attended a local caucus. One last attended to vote for Mondale, and the other for McGovern. They were both there to vote for the same person tonight.
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I hear ya! We Ohioans felt that our vote mattered too!
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I only got to vote once though.
Well, I guess theoretically my vote did matter, just not quite enough this time around. Oh well, maybe in another 20 years Texas will come into play again.
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