You bitches better be voting! Or caucusing!1 I don't care who for (well, I do, but your decision is your own. This is America, after all), but you better!
Beats the crap out of me. Actually no, it has a lot to do with the format. A primary is basically a vote, where a caucus is more of a conversation. For example, you have little squares in different corners of the room, and they represent a candidate. You go stand by the candidate you support, everyone goes around and says why they feel that candidate is best, and then people have the option to move around if they are so swayed.
BUT! Who chooses who does what? The parties and the states. It's stupid.
The thing that REALLY pisses me off, though, are closed primaries. That's the most unconstitutional bullshit I've ever heard of.
*does the Obama dance too, even though so far it looks like Clinton is leading in your stupid state!*
Obama's website says he took Minnesota! And the CNN primary coverage site mirrors that.
Evidently he's got 67% with 70% reporting. :-D
I'm pretty sure he rocked the shit out of our precinct too. At least from what I was hearing, and the place was packed. They really didn't expect this many people to show up. As a result, it was kind of low-budge. They ran out of ballots and we had to write our votes out on DFL business cards. Hah! It was really very vindicating, and exciting! Go America! Go Change!
We ran out of ballots and even of roll-call forms. There was a half an hour line just to get to our precinct rooms, It was something like FIVE TIMES the turn-out they had in 204.
You know, I really think a lot changed after 2000. Young people really saw that their votes mattered, and I think the problem with 2004 was that there wasn't nearly as much hope as there is now. It's a very exciting time, and a very important election for this country.
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But you will vote when the time comes, eh?
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But jump on the wagon when the time comes. :)
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BUT! Who chooses who does what? The parties and the states. It's stupid.
The thing that REALLY pisses me off, though, are closed primaries. That's the most unconstitutional bullshit I've ever heard of.
*does the Obama dance too, even though so far it looks like Clinton is leading in your stupid state!*
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Obama's website says he took Minnesota! And the CNN primary coverage site mirrors that.
Evidently he's got 67% with 70% reporting. :-D
I'm pretty sure he rocked the shit out of our precinct too. At least from what I was hearing, and the place was packed. They really didn't expect this many people to show up. As a result, it was kind of low-budge. They ran out of ballots and we had to write our votes out on DFL business cards. Hah! It was really very vindicating, and exciting! Go America! Go Change!
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In short, fucking awesome.
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When can you? Will you be able to? How does that work, exactly? (If you don't mind my asking)
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