At 10:15 PM 3/6/2004 -0600 Julia Thompson wrote:
>I'm almost afraid to research the rest of my ballot. If I don't do
>research, though, I will vote on those two offices and only those two
>offices.
I cast my vote for Dubya and his three delegates on Super Tuesday.... and
the touch screens in my precinct seemed to work without a hitch.
(Although I still support having a paper trail.)
Even more surprising, I voted for the winner in all but one race. In
particular, I am most happy that we at least have a *new* sacrificial lamb
for Al Wynn in the Congresional Race. The previous challenger, John
Kimble, has been the Republican nominee in every election since and
including 1996, which allowed him to culminate his years of campaigning
experience by running in 2002 primarily on the grounds that Al Wynn was
going through a divorce and therfore was too distracted to adequately serve
the District! As you can tell, Kimble comes off as a real nut-job, and
thankfully he only placed second in the GOP Primary this year, to a
candidate whom I managed to pick out of an eight-candidate field as the
most-viable challenger. We'll see if McKinnis can manage to at least not
be *too* embarassing to Republicans in defeat.
Then again, my District is so incredibly safely Democratic that the
Democrats in the House Legislature just finished gerry-mandering my
District to take Democrats *out* of it, so as to make the next-door
District, which used to be represented by a very liberal Republican, Connie
Morella, virtually non-competitive.
I was also happy that I cast the vote for the winning sacrificial lamb for
Barbara Mikulski, since again I did not know of any of the candidates until
logging onto the Internet the night before. It looks like he is going to
try and at least make a quixotic show of trying to win it, though... but
I'm not holding my breath that he might be another Bob Ehrlich (our
first-term Republican Governor - a first tsince about the time of Julius
Caesar for Maryland :-). Then again, I really had to hold my nose in
voting for Ehrlich, since I am not exactly crazy about his signature issues
of brining in slot-machines and building a new Interstate Highway.... but I
eventually was forced to conclude that he was at least better than Kathleen
Kennedy Townsend. In this case, though, at least a Republican Senator
would vote to confirm Bush's judges, which immediately makes him better
than any Democrat in my book... but like I said, he essentially has no
shot, even if Bush is romping over Dukakis II this November.....
I also managed to tab winners in two-out-of-three school board races, in
part because I liked the incumbent's policy statement the best in one race,
and in another vacant race, the policy statement I liked the best belonged
to the Chairman of the County Republican Party - so he was a pretty strong
candidate already. Wasn't happy about the results in the third one
though, but I do live in one of the most liberal corners of one of the most
solidly Democratic States in the Union.
My Maryland, My Maryland. :-)
JDG
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