Okay, so here it is. I didn't vote yesterday. I thought about it very hard, and I decided that, being a registered Democrat, I didn't feel that I should be voting in a primary that doesn't count. My vote would have gone to Obama, by the way.
And I know my judgement, however thought out, backfired. First of all, I was not for Amendment 1, which passed by 63%. I should have gone to vote against it. I'm not sure it would have mattered, but I should have voted on it. And I'm sure the schools would have gotten their money without me too, but I should have voted for that one too.
But if Clinton won 50% of the votes and then they give back our delegates I'll be picketing somewhere. You can't change the rules after the game is played. They took our delegates away. It's not the candidates' fault, it's not the people's fault, it's the party's fault. And the party lost out on an important state. But it's over now, and I'll be goddamn if they're going to tell us that we don't matter and then put it back because someone likes how they ranked.
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I'm not familiar with what happened in Florida. I thought it was a "winner takes all" primary.
In Kansas there's no primary, just a caucus. I'm not registered though to either party, so I won't be participating. But I'm sure the results will make me mad anyway.
I'm still trying to figure out how the Dems lost their delegates but the Republicans didn't. It was the state that moved the primaries up, wasn't it? So why did only one party suffer?
Ours is Feb 5th, and I'm still not 100% sure who I'm voting for.
I'm not entirely sure how it works in Florida either, and I live here. I still think they should move to having a true democracy instead of this delegate crap anyhow -- we can teach other countries how to do it but we can't make it work ourselves? I believe that what happened was that the state Democratic party moved it up instead of theirs being next week, and the national Dem party said they couldn't do it and so they stripped the delegates. Something to that affect.
My problem is that now that Clinton won, she is saying that she'll do everything she can to get the delegates back, which is changing the rules after the game starts -- all of us that would have voted for Obama or Edwards or anyone else would have lost a voice we didn't know we had, and that's just wrong.
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