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Archive for January 3rd, 2008

Raucous Caucus!

Posted by Mike on January 3, 2008

OK, so not so raucous at our precinct for the Iowa caucus. But the attendance was about twice what I remember from 8 years ago.

The tally of the votes went quickly. In our precinct, Mike received 46 votes, Fred 25, Mitt 24, Ron 9, John 7, and Rudy 3. That’s a total of 114 ballots.

There was the selection of delegates to the county convention, and selection of party committee members.

Then the discussion and voting on party planks for the platform. These will be delivered to the county convention, and will be combined with others from other precincts, or shredded and never make it any farther. It was informative to hear some ideas about what should be included and why. My daughter and I left after about 2 hours as things were winding down.

Statewide, it looks like Mike took about 34% of the ballots. Mitt, who outspent Mike twenty-fold, was second.  Some guy in the other party beat whats-her-name in that contest.

It was an interesting time, and I’m glad I went.

It’s a long way to the White House for someone, though.

The population of Iowa will be somewhat less by this time tomorrow night as journalists, campaigners, and others move on to other sites.

At least the phone calls will stop.

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Christmas Reflections

Posted by Mike on January 3, 2008

Now that Christmas for this season is over, but not that far behind, perhaps it’s worth taking a second look at what a lot of us do. At least Tony Woodlief did that for his family as recorded in his Wall Street Journal essay, “Free Christmas!“

“Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.” – Jaroslav Pelikan

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