My Lentin mission is reading and listening to Imitation of Christ. One very good passage that got me thinking last night about more than Jesus: If God were always the sole object of our desire, we should the less easily be troubled by the erring judgment of our fancy. Better translation for my purpose here:…
Month: February 2008
Speaking of how we nominate people here in Washington
The Supreme Court could issue a decision in Washington Grange vs. Everyone tomorrow. The oral arguments were heard in October, and the court usually takes care of these things within the same court year. So… Anyone in the mood for Top Two in August? I’m just saying that why would the court pick up the…
Ideas on how we can improve, “not ditch,” the caucus system
Andrew over at NPI blog writes a post about I guess improving the precinct caucus system, but spends the entire time defending them against folks that like the primary. Good for him, but I would really have liked to hear some ideas on improvement. Seriously. Because it’s been a demoralizing few months leading up to…
Comparing other states, Washington Dem caucus turnout not so great
Particle man says: In fact, the Washington caucuses were the largest caucuses in the nation with more attendence than in any other state. This is what it looks like anyway. Well, that’s of course true. Raw numbers wise, Washington does have the largest amount of caucus goers. But, because Washington is the largest state to…
Record caucus turnout vs. actual turnout
Quarter of a million people turned out for the Democratic caucuses on Saturday. No wonder they were crowded and noisy. That’s including the 10,000+ that showed up in Thurston County. But like our attendance in Thurston County, if you put it against actual voter turnout, caucus turnout is depressing. In 2007, there were 3,288,642 registered…
From Republican PCO to Democratic delegate in an afternoon
One story from over the caucus weekend continues to intrigue me. It starts out with the crashing sounds of web servers at the Thurston County Republicans. I assume because the state party website was sending all interesting parties to county party websites for caucus locations, the Thurston Republican’s website crashed. So, if you were an…