Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Turnout Problems?

Voted today. No line. In and out quick. Nobody at the Republican table. Four or five folks at the Dem table. Weather is always the big variable in primaries and last night's snow could have scared people in.

3 comments:

MikeD said...

Same deal with me - in and out in about 10 minutes and no Repubs.

Here's an open question - did anyone know about the crazy caucus business before this primary? I've voted in, I think, five previous primaries and had no idea it existed.

Steve said...

I learned about it, and posted about it, on February 7th. It was news to me then.

I know there was a ton of early voting in my precinct. When I go back tonight for the caucus, I fully anticipate it being a madhouse and the possibility for mass confusion exists.

I have to admit that on its surface it seems confounding to the point that I've not attempted to see if there's actually any logic to the apportionment algorithm. It's tough enough to get voters to turn out once, but twice seems pretty stupid.

Anonymous said...

I had no idea that Texas was a caucus State until about a month ago.