Pullin’ a Homer
Virginia has open primaries – you know, the kinda thing that’s unconstitutional if you live in California, but constitutional if you live in the United States. Last week, I nearly voted in my first Democrat primary in over a decade. Unlike some Republicans who voted for Miller to help George Allen, I probably would have voted for Webb to ensure that the saner of the two face off against Allen, who should win handily over either. But I was out of town at a convention until Tuesday, didn’t know where my polling place was, was too damned lazy to lift a finger to find out, and was too tired and hungry to care. So I missed my first primary in two decades. Well, it turns out I needn’t have bothered. Not only didn’t Webb need my vote, having cast one for him might have had repercussions for me. Laziness and procrastination paid off.
June 24th, 2006 at 11:44 am
Good heavens! I voted in the Virginia Democratic Presidential Primary in 1988 — yet was a delegate at the 1994 state Republican convention (trying to get the Senate nomination for Jim Miller over Oliver North.)
Of course, in the 1988 Democratic Presidential Primary, the nomination already having been decided, I voted for Jesse Jackson, just to spite Mike Dukakis, and to guarantee the Rev. Jackson a speaking role at teh 1988 convention, knowing it would hurt the Democrats! :)
I wonder if Mr Miller failed in his attempt to win the nomination because they knew I had voted in a democratic primary.