Did the caucus thing today. No, not the Russian one. The Democratic one. Met in an elementary school. 70 people. Up from 12 in 2004. At this rate, we should have the entire population of the world in 2052. I’ll be dead then, but who’s counting?
We split 4 : 1 for Barack Obama. During our caucusing period, one woman, a supporter of Hillary Clinton, said, “Why not a woman? We got into this mess because of men.” I have condensed her speech. She was accompanied by her son, a Private First Class in the 101st Airborne, who stood about 6’6″, so nobody was going to diss her.
But a man stood up and said that if we were going to choose someone because of gender or race, he was going home. He identified himself as a Palestinian who had lived here for 20 years. That kind of put “Paid” on the whole gender and race talk.
A Republican, or Obama Republican, as he identified himself, said that he was for Obama because he was tired of the way things were run. He said that we needed to restore fiscal sanity to the system and that the only way he could see that happening is if there was someone who was inspiring to lead the country. He said that if the race was between Clinton and McCain, McCain would win, and that would be a mistake.
In the end, nobody switched votes and we selected four Obama delegates to the legislative district caucus. I nominated the Palestinian guy. I figured he should get his money’s worth of this democracy thing. Most of the people were ditching the joint as quickly as they could; this is the normal person’s reaction to democracy: “I want things to work around here, you folks take care of it.” I said that I could go to the next level and boom, I was in there.
Around King County, Barack Obama is running over 60% in the caucus voting. Let’s see what the rest of the state does.