Elections Are in the Air
Posted in Politics and tagged with Elections, Hilary Clinton, Politics on May 3, 2008Ah, it’s finally our turn. On Tuesday, people statewide will be going out to vote in the presidential primary, gubernatorial (yep, had to use spell check on that one) primary, and other primary races. In some ways, this feels like my first grownup time to vote as I’m not in a different state. It’ll only be my second time to go to the polls, as I’ve primarily have had to vote using advanced ballots because until recently I haven’t lived in the same state I was registered to vote in.
We’ve started getting phone calls from the campaigns of a couple of the gubernatorial candidates (I have to use that word again now that I know how to spell it). Today when I came home, there was a message from a race car driver for one of the candidates. Let me tell you, there’s probably not an endorsement I care about less than a Nascar racer’s, but nevertheless now I know who this stranger is voting for.
As I was driving by the historic downtown of this small town, there were about 50 bazillion police cars (we may have only 12,000 residents, but a quarter of them are police officers) and a bunch of vendors packing up Hillary Clinton gear. Nothing like an election to bring out the salesmen.
I thought that maybe Chelsea was in town for a rally earlier today (certainly Hillary or Bill wouldn’t come and me not know it, right?), so I looked it up online. Sure enough, it was Hillary herself who came for a rally. I’m been following these things pretty close, so why didn’t I know? I might have thought about stopping by and checking out the atmosphere.
For those who are curious, it’s been pretty clear for sometime that Barack Obama was more popular in North Carolina. In the last couple of weeks, though, I’ve been seeing a lot more Clinton things. I wouldn’t be surprised if she was able to pull off the win, bolstering her chance for the nomination. Crazy.
