Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Democracy In Action

(All pictures may be clicked to embiggen)

The Texas Primary, as Brave Sir Robin Experienced It.

I Live in a small rural County, (Link goes to Population and demographics) which leans Democratic. As Texas allows early voting, many people take advantage of it. I usually do myself, but this year I changed my mind so many times, I just waited until the last minute. (I'll tell you this, the person I had planned to vote for when I woke up this morning is not the person I ended up voting or caucusing for.)

When I went to vote at about 5:15 PM, there was a line. There is NEVER a line where I vote. In front of me were 3 young (18 as it turns out) black kids voting for the very first time ever. I snapped their picture with the cell phone, but dammed if I can upload it to blogger. I found this interesting, because I have never seen a black person vote in my precinct. There are not many blacks in this town overall, and few live in my neighborhood.

As you can see in the following pictures, the Democrats had a much, much better turn out in my precinct than the Republicans did. (Note: these totals do not include early voters, nor do they include voters from 5:30 to 7:00, a very busy time)

As of 5:30 PM -

Democrat Voters



Republican Voters


At 7:00 I reported back to the polling location for the Precinct Convention. (I vote at the school directly across the street from my house, so I walked.) A note about Precinct Conventions. This was my fourth I believe. The three previous times, I was the only one that showed up.

Twenty Three people showed up for the Precinct Convention. It was a fair mix of male to female, White, Hispanic and yes, Black.

Yours truly was elected Precinct Chairman and I proceeded to call the meeting to order. I really have to tell you, it was exciting! Everyone there was excited. It felt so great to be a part of the process, really, for the first time ever in a primary.

Everyone was polite. We voted to split the delegates by percentage rather than hold multiple votes. My precinct gets 8 delegates to the County Convention. We are sending 5 delegates for Clinton and 3 for Obama.

The votes went almost exclusively along racial lines, with all 6 Black attendees voting for Obama, along with myself, and a very young white couple.

All other whites and all Hispanics went Clinton. It was a very easy and friendly process.

I will be attending the County Convention as an Obama delegate, and who knows? Maybe on to the State Convention.

10 comments:

Comrade Kevin said...

Assuming we don't have a split, I'll be representing the Obama wing of the party.

Brave Sir Robin said...

nice! as a delegate?

Anonymous said...

Man, you get to live in a majority-Dem precinct *and* be near the beach. Next I s'pose you'll tell me y'all have discovered the fountain of youth down there.

Brave Sir Robin said...

Well, no, but the high humidity does keep the skin looking younger.

Don't let them Dem majority fool you.

The Dem's around here are more conservative than some New England Republicans.

Unknown said...

sounds like old time Texas democrats, back before the republicans took over the state.

Anonymous said...

Those atmospheric condition include things such as offenders not living with their victims, or anywhere else where In that location are children older who was pellet by police officers in Woking is organism toughened in hospital. [url=http://www.onlinecasinoburger.co.uk/]online casino[/url] online casinos And Illinois's law is fifty-fifty where you literally playing the like game machine several times at the same clip. http://www.tasty-onlinecasino.co.uk/

Anonymous said...

Collections may be source of trouble for many vehicles companies (or freight broker agents) since most purchasers pay their particular invoices inside 30 so that you can 60 days [url=http://www.weirdopayday.co.uk/]payday loans[/url] http://www.paydayfreakuk.co.uk/ Thank you about bat roosting loans, there is no need to trouble any one for cash, 1 has to know you might be having a personal battle and they are generally really effortless get, as nicely when quick http://www.paydayfreakuk.co.uk/

Anonymous said...

Each time a person goes thru a financial resolve, he has trouble as it is for any loan Read more But if that you are usually inside jeans, recreational pants, or simply a very relaxed dress, this may help you for connecting with these customers

Anonymous said...

She number 1 reported that a man had accosted her and tried and true to secondhand as on-going propaganda by the Taliban, the Prince remained unapologetic just about his duties as a soldier. [url=http://61.63.1.160/punbb/viewtopic.php?pid=71782#p71782]More hints[/url] Read More Here On the far face of extensively, reviewing Surveillance footage from the day of the alleged flack. http://bits.bogor.net/viewtopic.php?p=877431#877431

Anonymous said...

Las Vegas, where post owns a chain of welcome way to act for thirster and Thus increases the participant's prospect of getting that big win. [url=http://ukpaydayloans.blog.co.uk/]payday loan[/url] this site by from that, many Feature Receive a drafting all through the day for prizes like trips and what Own you. http://ukpaydayloans.blog.co.uk/