fucking hell. i really dont want to, but im going to because i believe in obama.

who here is caucusing tomorrow or has ever done this?

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the cave mouth shines
by pure force of will
i look down on the world
from the top of this lonesome hill
and you can run, and run some more
from here all the way to singapore
but i will carry you home in my teeth
-mountain goats

i love all these odd presidential election terms. 'caucusing'! my fave is 'Super Tuesday', how fun does that sound?

not that it matters (UK), but i'm rooting for obama, too.

I'd say it does!

well it doesnt sound fun to me. there are going to be a bunch of sweaty self righteous people in a church screaming and yelling for you to come to their side. i was a part of the houston jerry brown campaign and politics is just a bunch of sweaty gross people trying to outshout the others. i hate it.

i would rather just vote, but i totally believe that we need obama, so im going and my husband is going and we are taking seth. ill point out all the gross sweaty people to seth and we can laugh at them.

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the cave mouth shines
by pure force of will
i look down on the world
from the top of this lonesome hill
and you can run, and run some more
from here all the way to singapore
but i will carry you home in my teeth
-mountain goats

i caucused (?) a couple weeks ago. for obama.

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albert, you are the father

This is the first time I will be unable to vote due to several variables and I feel bad. However, Il is very pro Obama so I feel secure. Xcrosses fingersX

how bad was it?

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the cave mouth shines
by pure force of will
i look down on the world
from the top of this lonesome hill
and you can run, and run some more
from here all the way to singapore
but i will carry you home in my teeth
-mountain goats

out of what is on offer i would take obama, so good luck with it.

never done any caucusing cos I'm in the U.K, but I have done stuff along those lines

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It's a new year, I'm glad to be here. It's a fresh spring, so lets sing.
In 2080 I'll surely be dead. So don't look ahead, never look ahead.

what have you done? RESPECT soc are always trying to encourage us to stand in local elections but...i'm too shy

some stuff with respect funnily enough, long story but involved helping galloway put on a talk at my uni after they effectively tried to ban him. hilarity ensued.

i also did some stuff for the green party at the last election, canvassing etc, as used to run green soc bits here and there

generally stay away from that sort of politics though

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It's a new year, I'm glad to be here. It's a fresh spring, so lets sing.
In 2080 I'll surely be dead. So don't look ahead, never look ahead.

you have not met george galloway!!!

why on earth did people want to ban him?

do you listen to his radio programme? it's on, like, saturday nights and he gets all these drunken bigots calling in and he totally wipes the floor with them. it's pretty ace!

i did, that once, and he was nice. I didnt think so much of some of the people he brought with him though
wanted to ban him as they didn't like him, and tried to find really stupid reasons to do it. then the uni newspaper sneaked toy guns into the auditorium and had a front page spread about how that meant he was irresponsible and clearly plotting the end of western civilisation. i dont mind gorgeous george too much but ive never been part of respect, just did it cos i thought the uni was being shitty for no good reason.

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It's a new year, I'm glad to be here. It's a fresh spring, so lets sing.
In 2080 I'll surely be dead. So don't look ahead, never look ahead.

<<fucking hell. i really dont want to, but im going to because i believe in obama.

who here is caucusing tomorrow or has ever done this?>>

Whoa, I didn't realize KS caucuses instead of votes!

Apparently they are expecting such a huge turnout in Lawrence they moved their location to the fairgrounds.

It just occurred to me recently that I'm still registered in Missouri. It's a shame I can't afford to go down there to take part, as I'm probably moving back there in a few months anyway. *sigh* guess I'll have to just register here and wait until May. Of course for the first time ever perhaps the winning candidate will still be undecided and my vote might actually mean something?

It absolutely breaks my heart that I cannot vote for Obama tomorrow but I'm an independent and my state won't let me.

you can register at the door of the caucus. DO IT! get registered in kansas and do it! (are you in lawrence? or nebraska? or oklahoma? i ccant keep up with you)

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the cave mouth shines
by pure force of will
i look down on the world
from the top of this lonesome hill
and you can run, and run some more
from here all the way to singapore
but i will carry you home in my teeth
-mountain goats

I enjoyed it. Prime people watching. I've been here (IA) for the last three and this was the first one I attended. The chairperson (?) lives down the street from me and she said it was the biggest turnout she has seen in over twenty years in our district, by far. Last election there were aprox. twenty people and there were nearly two hundred this time.

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albert, you are the father

well i know almost nothing at all about american politics but WHAT?! why exactly can't you vote for him? that totally sucks. i thought democracy was all about "choice".

Right now people are not technically voting for who will run for president. Every state is awarded a number of delegates based on population. WHen people vote or caucus in the primaries they are not casting votes but appointing delegates.
There are separate delegates for the republicans and democrats. So it's an inner-party system with the person who receives some 2,000+ delegates getting the party's nomination.
And every state does it somewhat differently.


So yeah, american democracy is somewhat nonsensical.