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A Glimpse of the World of the Future
Feb. 10th, 2008 09:22 pmYesterday, here in Washington, we held open partisan caucuses (caucii?) to express opinions about which candidates should represent the two major parties as candidates for president. The general process is that attendees sign in, express an initial preference, then there's a quick calculation to determine how many delegates are allocated to the respective candidates, and then there's a time period for participants to give little one-minute mini-speeches in favour of or in opposition to candidates to attempt to sway those who may have been supporters of candidates who didn't have sufficient support to have 'earned' a delegate.
Usually those speakers are the voters among the caucus goers, but there is no requirement that they be bona-fide participants. In ours, Alexander asked to speak to the caucus coveners, and gave a well-tempered and reasoned minute-long speech in support of his candidate. After we were done with the allocation and selection of delegates and alternates, several of the attendees came over to me and commented along the lines that they've seen the future of the nation and are ready to vote for him whenever he decides to run for office.
He's a good kid. I didn't urge him to speak, and didn't know at the time he did which candidate he was going to support. He ended up speaking in favour of the candidate i chose, but that's not the important bit. The big thing, as far as i'm concerned is that he did his research and thinking, and decided he cared enough to say something.
Usually those speakers are the voters among the caucus goers, but there is no requirement that they be bona-fide participants. In ours, Alexander asked to speak to the caucus coveners, and gave a well-tempered and reasoned minute-long speech in support of his candidate. After we were done with the allocation and selection of delegates and alternates, several of the attendees came over to me and commented along the lines that they've seen the future of the nation and are ready to vote for him whenever he decides to run for office.
He's a good kid. I didn't urge him to speak, and didn't know at the time he did which candidate he was going to support. He ended up speaking in favour of the candidate i chose, but that's not the important bit. The big thing, as far as i'm concerned is that he did his research and thinking, and decided he cared enough to say something.
