Super Duper Tuesday

Happy Super Duper Tuesday, particularly to those of you voting today.   

A couple of hours ago, we cast our votes in the Democratic primary.  While I know it's just a primary, I still expected it to have a buzz.  It was a crazy scene at our polling place for the last presidential election... the street jammed and a line of people well out the door.

Not quite the same feel this morning.  I wondered if we had turned down the correct street.  Alas, we did and had our choice of spaces in the parking lot... arriving just as the first voter in our precinct was heading out the door (to the cheers of strangely cheerful and/or highly over-caffeinated poll workers) and we were voters #6 and #7.  So not quite a "super" (let alone, "super duper") atmosphere, but I realize we were very early birds.

It was nice to have to only make one decision.  Though given that I was in bed less than an hour before and without those morning mugs of java, it took a bit more concentration than I expected to find Hillary's name on the ballot. 

It's probably a good thing I looked at the sample ballot when it arrived in the mail, otherwise I would have been mightily confused.  Here in Arizona, we had 24 names on the ballot (apparently it takes just some simple paper work and a notarization to get your name on the ballot) ... and in random order!  No alphabetization, no realistic candidate at the top... Hillary was the 16th name list on the ballot (just above former front-runner, Edward Dobson)... so it took me moment to focus and make my little mark on the ballot.

Now it's the very small respite before the declaration of winners, speculation, and spinning (and those political commercials!).  It's going to be a long night of television... and for the Democrats, I am pretty darn certain that things are not going to be pretty darn certain by the end of the night.  I have a feeling I'll be "calling" the end of the night much earlier than the pundits.