Tuesday, March 4, 2008

My Texas Caucus snoozefest (experience)

Well, here is my story about my first caucus experience. I had a friend drive me to the polling place, which was a College Station ISD office building, and waited for about 15 minutes to go in. There ended up being about 60 people there, all democrats, the republicans only had about 6 people. There were only about 5 people over the age of 25 there as well. We had to wait in the halls because the republicans had the big room, and the only other room open, which was considerably smaller, was still being used for something concerning the regular vote, and we couldn't go in. It wasn't until about 30 minutes later that we were let in, AFTER the precinct captain for the Democratic party didn't show up, and some random people had to open up the packet with the rules and forms and do the whole process themselves.

And, here was the amazing process...you went in and wrote your information on a sheet as well as who you voted for...thats it.

The only reason for anyone to stay was to elect a representative to the state convention, who might then be a delegate to the national convention.

What a blast!

The only consolation was that Hillary was getting beat, from what I saw on the sheets, by, at best, a 5:1 ratio. Doesn't look good for Mrs. Clinton.

So yeah, no chairs thrown, no people locked out of the building, no shouting matches, no chants of "bros before hoes", "once you go black you never go back", "if its not white, its not right"...nothing. SNOOZEFEST.

HOWEVER...apparently Clinton's camp is reporting that some interesting activity DID happen at other places ...sounds like a sore loser to me, but whatever.

1 comment:

Colin said...

Democracy in inaction, my friend.