One of the things that most people don’t know about me is that I send out probably only a quarter of the emails I write. <\/p>\n
I wonder, if I were to be hit by a bus tomorrow, what would be made of all the emails I don’t send. I can’t decide if I’d want them to be delivered to their intended recipiants, or deleted – probably a little of both. They make for intereseting reading for me, though.<\/p>\n
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So, P. stayed over last night in order to help me face the scary Democrats (or the other way around, I think she was just as apprehensive as I was about the whole thing). It turned out to be rather a lot of fun, although I was truly pushing exhausted by the end of the thing, since I didn’t sleep at all last night. [Working and then playing music]<\/p>\n
Anyway, sometime around 10ish we wandered down to a local school to cast our vote. My neighbor, who is a big Dean supporter, booed as I wrote in ‘Kucinich’ in the box, but it was completely in fun. Or mostly so anyway. There was one Kerry supporter who kind of scared me a little bit.. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
Anyway, so, after this our chair explained the rules of the system, and how we would be able to change our votes, horse-trade to get canidates viable, and whatever until the cutoff time. When we were told that any canidates with less than 15% of the vote were unviable, P. turned to me and said ‘Sorry’ and I started trying to figure out who I was going to change my vote to. I had just about decided on Kerry, despite the fact that there are a few things I really dislike about him – like how plastic he seems, how rich he is, and how he voted for the recent war – when I happened to glance over at the sheets.<\/p>\n
You could plainly see everyone’s vote – I think this was a good thing, considering the horse-trading that later ensued, it made things simpler – and it didn’t look like Kucinich wasn’t a viable canidate _at all_. in fact, when the votes were tallied, in our precinct he got more than Kerry!<\/p>\n
But then, I always knew I lived in a cool neighborhood.<\/p>\n
It was neat in general – I got to meet some of my neighbors, which is something I definately don’t do enough of. In the end, we broke up into groups and decided who would take our issues to the county on May 1st and 8th. There were several volunteers, but I was chosen.<\/p>\n
So now I’m active in local government. Well, kind of.<\/p>\n
Anyway – I was also happy that at one point when it looked like Kucinich wasn’t going to get enough votes for a delegate after the horse-trading had ensued, P. was willing to change her vote to make Kucinich a viable canidate. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
It was a cool system – had almost a instant-runoff flavor to it. I think it would make a good system for electing a president – you could support multiple parties easily!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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