Sort of. It's not that far until June 5th, and my mail-in ballot is beckoning to be filled in and mailed out.

But there's only two ballot initiatives on the ballot, so what fun is that? (Fortunately, we can look forward to many, many more being on the ballot in November, including this oneI will ponder the two intiatiatives soon, but for the nonce ( Read more... )

Time for polling again.

In other, related news, once again a national party cannot keep states in line as to when to run their primaries. The National GOP had worked out a schedule that pushed the primary schedule back some weeks from 2008, so that the last weeks before the Iowa caucus would not occur over the holidays. Fail.

Florida just announced ( Read more... )

Thanks to the recent budget deal, in June of 2010, California voters
will be asked to decide whether to do away with California's current
system of primaries (which are done in the context of political
parties) and move to open or (at least according to Nate Silver) so called jungle primaries ( Read more... )

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Its one day after perhaps one of the most incredible gaffes ever in ( Read more... )

"Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency sir madam, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"

Democratic Campaign Status, 4/29 ( Read more... )

Democratic Campign Status, 10/21 ( Read more... )

It's nine days until the PA primary, followed by Guam, then North ( Read more... )

Someone came up with the most awesome term:

'Chinese Delegate Torture.'

(Today, the governor of Wyoming, a superdelegate, announced for Obama.
Yesterday, it was the senator from MN. A few days ago, Casey, the PA
senator, etc)