Politics

Hey, I just made a donation to support the Obama campaign before the August fundraising deadline. Make a donation now…

I just read a great article in the Boston Globe written by Susan Jhirad, a professor of English at North…

Congratulations on securing the nomination, Mr. Obama! I am proud to say that you have my vote and as much…

So yeah. Gas is nearing $4 a gallon. In many parts of the country, it’s topped $4 already. There’s no…

I think I have a little crush on Michelle Obama now, much like I do on Barack! I really want this woman to be First Lady. She seems like she doesn’t take crap from anybody.

Doc and I just got done “caucusing.” Get your mind out of the gutter! It may SOUND dirty, and we may have made a lot of innuendo jokes about it, but caucusing is actually just a very strange part of our very strange political system. Apparently in Texas, you get to vote in the primary election, and then you get to vote AGAIN at the caucus the same night. The primary selects 2/3 of the delegates, and the results from the caucus select the remaining third. So not only did we early vote in the primaries last week, we showed up for the caucus tonight. We had no idea what to expect, but since the Obama people have called us about a dozen times over the past two weeks urging us to show up and vote, we decided to go and see what it was all about. We walked about 3/4 of a mile to the elementary school in our neighborhood, and stood in a very long line of people waiting outside the doors. After the last voter had voted in the primary around 7:30, they let everyone in and we split up by precinct to stand in new very long lines. Eventually we got to the sign-up sheet and cast our votes for Obama. We weren’t sure what to do after that, but a lot of people seemed to be sitting in chairs lining a long hallway filled with lockers and childrens’ drawings, so we sat down and chatted with the people around us for a while. Brittney called Doc while we were waiting and said that she was still in line in her precinct, with about 100 people ahead of her! It seems like crazy numbers of people are turning up for the elections this year. About an […]