The word on the proverbial street is that folks phoned in their votes, or mailed, or submitted them by pony express telegram. This seems lame. Well, hold on, not lame but where's the camaraderie of standing in line eagerly anticipating your favorite candidate's little box to check, or punch, or electronically whatever it is that the computer's do. The excitement of voting, to this news organization, seems to be like waiting for the Astropop or a Drumstick or a orange sherbet something-or-other from the ice cream man that trolls through the neighbor on a 100 plus degree summer afternoon. The childhood exuberance of saying, "that's what I want," is not for Floridians, they would rather sit at hom
e and enjoy the convenient services of absentee what-have-ya's. A moment of clarity: I could order my ice cream treat online or have my buddy pick one up for me. Yes, this news organization has it all wrong and Florida has it all right. Except if it's ice cream you want, you can only choose the stuff that "the man" brings. Don't ask for Democratic push-pops or choco tacos, they distributors refused to sell them to this sunshiny ice cream vendor who live in Florida. Analogy that! In other quasi-news coverage...A million or so votes had already been cast do to mail-in voting or other means of not showing-up to vote services. This seems that the last minute campaigning might be falling on many deaf ears that had made up their collective minds well before today. Who hasn't voted yet? Will their vote matter? For Mayor Giuliani it will. For the rest of the Republican candidates it will. But if polls already had John McCain ahead then most of those who were polled maybe sent their votes in. This seems like a wash considering that polling is wrong, dead wrong sometimes, and that people forgo the last minute hype that surrounds bids for the nomination. Such a last minute hype could be found in the Democratic primaries this last weekend as multiple circumstancial occurances may have pushed a surge of South Carolinian African American voters, more women than previously thought, to carry Barack Obama significantly over the Clinton campaign. In fact, since there may be no fan fare as news coverage has seemed mild compared to other primaries Giuliani may go silently as early as tomorrow morning. The question is: how will Huckabee and the absentee Romney, who dropped out the race weeks ago due to a trick-knee-back-spasm-arthritic football injury, fare today and a week from now? If Romney has a strong showing maybe he can get some Ben-Gay on that bad boy and get back in this race. If Huckabee, with dwindling skrill, gets a strong push maybe the baskets will over flow with not fish and bread, but campaign donations. Until then troops, stay the course, be par for the course, and show up to the political sociology course in Secretary Halfmann's headquarters to investigate these faulty truths or alternative ideological realities.
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