What a Super Day!
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
Susan: I deeply regret that I live in VA or my ballot would look just like the sample above. Sorry.
If any of you here know a Dem who isn’t voting today you have my permission to kick them in the butt. Kick them HARD!
1I love that “County Chair” in Spanish is “Presidente del Condado!” That would make our Ms. JJ “la Primera Dama del Condado!”
First Lady in the County Dems, First Lady in our Hearts.
And my predictions are:
Bernie: Vermont
Hillary: everything that isn’t Vermont
Cruz: Texas
2Trump: everything that isn’t Texas
Presidente del Condado Donald W. Bankston! SI!!!!
la Primera Dama del Condado JJ! SI!! SI!!
daChipster, two out of three ain’t bad. But “Cruz: Texas”? jamás! There are three things worse than a Drumpf nomination and Crooze is one of them. On to Floriduh and Ohiho to pop the corks of the other two.
3daChipster,
Herr Drumpf everywhere but Texas? Really. So Canadian Raphael gets the nod in Texas due to being supposed as a homeboy?
4Good luck Presidente Bubba!
5If I lived in Texas, I’d be voting for Bubba!
6Yesterday Guv A-Butt, ex guv pRick Perry and Crooze were on the stage at a rally in San Antonio for Crooze. Pastor John Hagee and state Sen. Donna Campbell were in the audience. I must admit I had unkind thoughts about what I wished had happened there.
7@Primera Dama de Fort Bend Demócratas del Condado
Best of luck today to Presidente del Condado Donald W. Bankston!
8I see lots of people have seen John Oliver’s Sunday night revel of Donald Drumpf.
9Love it!!
Cruz is oily. Texas votes for oil. Or the GOP part of it does. Or might. I dunno, these days; not every GOPper in TX likes Cruz. If he’d been born in Texas it would be different, but he wasn’t, and the birther groups who started grousing with McCain and shrieked over Obama have at least muttered about Cruz. Then there are the GOP “hate the Establishment” ones who now consider Cruz part of that (he’s a Senator, isn’t he? Thus, Establishment.) Unless those stinkin’ voting machines are programmed wrong, Cruz may have a harder time than he thinks in Texas.
Dems–of the Dems I personally know, the majority wish they could smush Sanders and Clinton into their own preferred mix of positions–more progressive than Clinton, more experienced than Sanders sort of thing. But I think Clinton will come out on top, both because Dems do think foreign policy experience is both rare and important, and because they think she’s more electable.
I voted by mail. Which is good because I’ve been down with a nasty bronchitis thing, and though I could make it to the local voting place (only about a half mile away) today, I would be coughing and scaring people once there.
10Elizabeth, I’m glad you could vote by mail. I did it one year from the hospital room where I had political posters and voter reg. cards. I thought surely I’d be out by election day but that card saved my neck. Thanks to Glen Maxey and others who made sure that old and handicapped always get mail in ballots.
Juanita Jean, give Bubba a big hug for us and a bunch of symbolic votes. We’re planning on his winning.
11Just voted in VA. Took 5 minutes. No excuses. VOTE!
12This morning I got an email from txdemocrats.org that had a link to finding polling places. I know what mine is for my precinct but I thought I’d check it out anyway.
Unfortunately, that link gave me the REPUBLICAN polling place for my address. We’re a small town here in Fredericksburg, but what if there are other similar errors for larger areas?
13Voted here in Northern Virginia this AM after the morning rush but you would never know it by the number of people still at the polls and still coming in. Parking lot very, very busy. Dems working hard to get folks to sign up for volunteering in Hill’s campaign. No donuts anywhere!!! Just hard working an voting people. The PM rush tonight should be a humdinger!!!
14It’s just my prediction. If I were to pick a place Trump could lose, it would be Texas for not being a Hispanic Texas Republican who’s won a state-wide campaign there before.
In Chicago and suburban politics, having an Irish last name was worth significant points among late deciders. So was being first on the ballot and, to a lesser degree in a crowded field, LAST on the ballot.
Or the only woman running. True story: As a precinct election judge, I once assisted an old blind woman to vote. She wanted to vote all pro-life. I told her I couldn’t help her to that, by law. She was nice about it. I read the choices, and she selected, with an election judge from the other party there with me, as I darkened the oval.
About a third of the way in, she mused out loud, “Let’s see, I haven’t voted for a woman yet…” and voted that race accordingly.
Cruz and Rubio will both get votes on their last name alone.
BTW, when we were done, and I was escorting her from the booth, she whispered, “How did I do?” “Got ’em all!” I whispered back to cheer her, though really, she was pretty random. Bless her heart, she was a dear.
15Addendum to my previous posting, the sign in table where they identified everyone was divided physically between Dems and R’s. The traffic was so totally overwhelming for Dems that the demarcation line went down and in pragmatic fashion the R side helped to ID Dem voters. I think that helped to move the crowd and the process along. Its only a minuscule example of bipartisanship but oh if only Congress could get its act together in such fashion!
16Is Texas enforcing the Voter ID nonsense?
17Go Bubba!
Good luck to Bubba! If I were there I’d vote for him. However, I don’t want to live in Texas, thankyouverymuch!
18I was there Day 1 of early voting to cast my ballot for Mr. B!
19Damn-Bubba did about as good as Bernie Sanders. That was an ass kicking.
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