Minnesotans Don't Count. They "Caucus".
or, How Marco's Establishment People Finally Won One.
Did you know: it's not a primary vote that chooses the party's nominees, but a caucus? There is so little turnout from the voting public here, you have to go to a website and type in your zipcode and location to be steered to a larger place much further from your regular voting precinct, because they need to put together a crowd. It's 7pm caucusing, not straight private voting, like we all will be doing come November.
"Minnesota has extremely high voter turnout in general elections," said Eric Ostermeier,
a University of Minnesota political scientist and writer. "If that's
something that's important, why at this stage ... would you hang on to a
process which everyone knows is going to have an extremely low
turnout?"
(Remember: our high temp yesterday was in the low 20s. Rational older people stay in, don't go running out to play politics with other people in public, in the winter, where a heated germ exchange like a public school -- or a busy grocery store, even -- is likely not where smart elders want to be, anywhere out after dark, in case the car goes off the road and you freeze to death...)
Nobody I know -- even the overtly political lawyers -- chose to spend their Tuesday night caucusing. (I was working, myself. Much better rate of return, as a single earner, with no tax deductibles to write off, creatively or honestly. Percentagewise, more of my income is going to build tomorrow's America than you, I suspect, so I take fiscal leadership seriously. And foreign policy too. Did you know the Obama doctrine we're advancing in the world has us assassinating people in Africa now? More wars, more and more and more and more...)
See you in November, in the regular voting locations! Something tells me, if you wanted a chance to vote for young Marco Rubio in Minnesota, last night was likely your sole opportunity...
---------------------
Added: Just time for one comment reply this morning:
CStanley said...Make it a great Wednesday, working Americans!
I agree with those saying that Cruz needs to be the one to stop Trump, even though I voted Rubio.
-------------
You don't need to stop Trump.
You need to override the will of the American people.
Good luck with that, as the establishment elite are slowly coming to realize... They're shitting bricks (not of gold) at the New York Times editorial staff room. Hell even the token "conservative" Ross Douthat is crying, poor guy. Remember: these are the people who believe that the majority of Americans still support President Obama's promises of making the world a better place. at American taxpayer expense...
Imagine how much a Trump presidential victory will blow away everything they want to promote about 21st century America.
A Change Is Gonna Come...
Hump day, if you're not pulling a weekend shift...
======================
ADDED: I feel your pain. Even if you still can't acknowledge mine.
You say hardening, I say strengthening...The Party of Trump, and the Path Forward for Democrats
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
The Republicans seem to be reeling from the fact that a shady, bombastic liar is hardening the image of their party as a symbol of intolerance.
There's a difference, you know.
*(and shame on you for playing the race card because your intellectual ways of doing business these past decades are losing, and have fallen out of favor in the rest of the country. Your abundance of money really can't help you now... You can't buy your way out of this mess you've put the rest of the world in. No more bailouts, capiche? Put on your dungarees, folks, plenty of cleanup work in the years to come... The great giveaway days are gone.)
Plus: Not much better over at the WaPo:
Poor Kathleen. She's self-reportedly suffering from a traumatic brain injury after she took a nasty fall months ago, but even so, you expect a Pulitzer-prize winning political columnist to be more attuned to reality. She's not penning a humor column, you know.Trump supporters are inoculated against the truth. By
<< Home