7 P.M. Eastern

people’s lives gonna start changing.

~Primo

by Primo Encarnación Chip Collis

In my many election seasons, I’ve seen a few polling places. I’m sure you all have, too.  But as I was just catching a glimpse of MSNBC, I saw another one.  It looked like a conference room, perhaps in a hotel, or conference center.  There was a certain sameness to it that reminded me of all the different ones I’ve seen: mostly empty, a line of tables to sign in, the booths, as far from the tables and everything else as they could be.  It’s a comforting similarity.

But even more comforting are the differences. Add this conference room to the class room, the gymnasium, and the foyer of the middle school, or cafeteria of the high school.  I’ve seen church halls and church basements; fire stations and police stations; senior homes and private homes; Elks Clubs, VFW Halls, KofC bars, Masonic Temples and the Loyal Order of Moose!; the library, the park district building, the City Hall, the County Courthouse; the junior college and the university – and just plain wherever an odd corner could be found, and people could gather.

Every single space could be found in every conceivable shape that architecture could dream, and engineering could design, and The Common Men and Women could build. And that They could also staff, because just regular folks all adapted all these different places to a common goal: political freedom, in the service of our country, and each other.

And that, my friends, is the Hope of Politics.

So vote! Today and tomorrow and each and every time it’s offered.  Because, for once, for truly:

Freedom.

It’s a very exciting day!  There are many during a campaign cycle, but chasing the first big chest of delegate treasure on a national (and international!) day of voting will feel a lot like November, what with the many states being called, and political fortunes hanging in the balance.

Super Tuesday is the first chance for a campaign to show that they’ve got the chops for the long haul.  You may be able to pull your people to the polls in onesy-twosy primaries; you may have shown support after moving to Iowa or New Hampshire for all of 2015.  But Super Tuesday is where the narrative hardens, the race clarifies, and dreams die.

We are not having an actual contest today, but feel free to post what you think/hope/imagine could happen out there.  Here are all the polls to date.

Also, all you people in Fort Bend County – get your BUTTS to the polls, dammit!  Below is a hint of whom I think we should support for the Democratic Chair.

~Primo