Okay, I'll give a brief report on what happened here in Nebraska yesterday (Saturday), and then I'm headed back to bed, with a roaring case of influenza. It takes all I have just to change the cat-litter box, much less think, and then post.
There were 38,000 Nebraska "Democrats" attending the caucuses; quotation marks intentional, because there appears to have been circa 4,000 registered Nebraska Republicans who handed in voter-registration changes prior to the Democrat caucuses.
I forget the exact numbers, but I believe Nebraska has circa 590,000 registered Republicans, and circa 250,000 registered Democrats; something like that.
Some background here; it has always been easy to change party affiliation in Nebraska, and it's almost an iron-clad tradition. Usually one does this because he has a friend running for a state or county or local office, and wants to vote for that friend, who happens to be of the opposite political party.
Of all the people I know born and raised and voting in Nebraska, probably at least a third of them have at one time or another "temporarily" registered with the other political party.
Both the Nebraska Republican party and the Nebraska Democrat party don't like this, but there's nothing they can do about it. (For the record, I myself have never done this, mostly because I'm too well-known as a Republican, and someone would catch on.)
One assumes maybe a couple dozen, or a couple score, of those circa 4,000 changing their registrations so as to participate in the Democrat caucuses are, authentically, disgruntled Republicans, but it was obvious from news reports that a landsliding majority of them were authentic Republicans wanting to have a little bit of innocent merriment.
But they appeared to be working at cross-purposes; some of them participating because they're afraid of Messalina Agrippina, and others because they don't like the Obamination--and so they messed things up, making it pretty much a "draw," in the sense of clandestine Republican participation.
One has to remember that Nebraska Democrats are so desperate they even have an (R) running as their candidate for the U.S. Senate, against the Republican candidate. They couldn't find an honest Democrat, so they took aboard an errant Republican, to run for this office.
The newspapers of course interviewed a lot of Nebraska Democrats, including one participant in the caucuses who had voted for the Obamanation. A reporter asked him how he felt about Barry Hussein Obama winning the caucuses.
The participant said it didn't matter much to him anyway.
Because he plans to vote for McCain in November.
This was a Democrat county chairman who said this, and yes, he's been quoted in the newspapers.
These caucuses are a joke.
