by Pa Rock
Voter
Today is the much ballyhooed "Super Tuesday," an important primary election day for Democrats in the United States and in a smattering of other places around the globe. This is the day when fourteen states, American Samoa, and Democrats Abroad get to make their Democratic presidential preferences known - and a few states, like Texas, are even holding their statewide primary elections today also.
It's a big day on the national political calendar, one that should go a long way toward deciding which Democratic candidate will challenge Trump in the fall.
Things in the Democratic Party have been moving at breakneck speed since the South Carolina primary last Saturday - a primary that Joe Biden won handily, though with less than a majority of the votes. Since that event, two of the major Democratic candidates - Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar - have dropped out of the race and both thrown their support to Biden. Former candidates Beto O'Rourke and Kamala Harris have also endorsed the former Vice President over the past two days.
Biden has built a full head of political steam since Saturday, but Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who placed second in South Carolina and has the most accumulated delegate votes at this point, seems poised to have a rebound today. Some are predicting that the contest may not be decided until the party has its national convention this summer.
Regardless of what happens today, the field of candidates is rapidly thinning - thus denying those of us in states that do not have early primaries the opportunity to have a meaningful say in who the ultimate candidate is. Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina have basically chosen for us.
Missouri, my state of residence, will have its presidential primary one week from today, and if there are still multiple candidates in the race at that time, I will be at the polls and casting a ballot. My vote is still my vote - even if it feels like it has been mortally wounded by an unfair nominating process. I will not be pushed along some cattle chute of consensus and bullied into "stopping" someone instead of having my say on which candidate I actually prefer.
I will cast my vote proudly, like it is the first day of the nominating season and not the bitter end.
Maybe four years from now myself and others will be allowed some better - or at least younger - choices.
Voter
Today is the much ballyhooed "Super Tuesday," an important primary election day for Democrats in the United States and in a smattering of other places around the globe. This is the day when fourteen states, American Samoa, and Democrats Abroad get to make their Democratic presidential preferences known - and a few states, like Texas, are even holding their statewide primary elections today also.
It's a big day on the national political calendar, one that should go a long way toward deciding which Democratic candidate will challenge Trump in the fall.
Things in the Democratic Party have been moving at breakneck speed since the South Carolina primary last Saturday - a primary that Joe Biden won handily, though with less than a majority of the votes. Since that event, two of the major Democratic candidates - Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar - have dropped out of the race and both thrown their support to Biden. Former candidates Beto O'Rourke and Kamala Harris have also endorsed the former Vice President over the past two days.
Biden has built a full head of political steam since Saturday, but Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who placed second in South Carolina and has the most accumulated delegate votes at this point, seems poised to have a rebound today. Some are predicting that the contest may not be decided until the party has its national convention this summer.
Regardless of what happens today, the field of candidates is rapidly thinning - thus denying those of us in states that do not have early primaries the opportunity to have a meaningful say in who the ultimate candidate is. Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina have basically chosen for us.
Missouri, my state of residence, will have its presidential primary one week from today, and if there are still multiple candidates in the race at that time, I will be at the polls and casting a ballot. My vote is still my vote - even if it feels like it has been mortally wounded by an unfair nominating process. I will not be pushed along some cattle chute of consensus and bullied into "stopping" someone instead of having my say on which candidate I actually prefer.
I will cast my vote proudly, like it is the first day of the nominating season and not the bitter end.
Maybe four years from now myself and others will be allowed some better - or at least younger - choices.
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