Liz and I were both delegates to The Clark County convention which was a disaster.  About 4 times as many people showed up for the convention as expected and the convention had to be reconvened weeks later to complete the voting.

Again, both Liz and I were selected as delegates to the Nevada State convention which met in Reno.  This was better run, but ran about an hour or two behind schedule all weekend.

Even though President Bill Clinton came to Reno to address the convention, the results of the caucuses were reversed at the convention.  Hillary Clinton had carried the state in the caucuses but by the time the convoluted  process of National convention delegate selection had ended at the convention Obama had more delegates to the National convention than Clinton.

And now all the states, territories, and commonwealths have had their say and the party has a nominee.  Now the campaign begins.

The Nevada Caucuses took place Saturday and Liz and I attended our precinct Democratic caucus at the local school.  We had 117 show up.  Only 3 candidates received support and (unfortunately) Edwards only had 15 supporters.  The viability cut off was 18 and we were unable to convince anyone to join us so we had to redistribute ourselves. Obama managed to come out with 1 more delegate than Clinton in our precinct.  I still prefer Edwards and hope he can manages to do better in the remaining primaries.  At any rate  any of the Democratic candidates will be better than what we have now … and better than any of the Republican candidates. These 3 candidates are the the pool from which both the 1st and 2nd places on the ticket will be chosen.  That I’m sure of …  that I hope!

We just got back a week ago from a visit to Toronto, We were there during Thanksgiving and attended Thanksgiving dinner with the Democrats Abroad chapter in Toronto. Dinner was held at the George Brown College Ontario Hostelry Institute School of Hospitality. The students at the institute did all the work and provided a traditional Thanksgiving meal and [...]

Have you seen the adds being put on by AARP?  You know, the ones that say “Don’t Vote”?  Well not voting isn’t the thing to do, but that’s not what they’re telling us to do anyway.  What they’re say is “Don’t vote until you know where the candidates stand on the issues.” Well, I did [...]

It’s not always easy to tell from what the Gleaner writes where he stands, but it is clear from this post that he doesn’t think very highly of Mr Gibson.  Personaly I’m not very happy to see Democrats slinging mud at each other, The Republicans will scoop up the same mud and use it in November no mater which one of them [...]