Just in case you didn’t know, tomorrow is the primary in Wisconsin. If you’re not a resident of the state, you can tell by the increased use of the terms “Wisconsin”, “Obama”, and “Clinton” in news stories in your media of choice. If you happen to actually be a resident, you’ve no doubt noted the uptick in the number of political commercials on the air.

It’s actually kind of interesting in an annoying sort of way.

I kind of wish I had kept the link to the article, but there was a story or two detailing how Clinton is muting operations in Wisconsin in favor the big states on March 4th. I’m not sure if it was because I had those articles in mind while I was watching TV, but I thought it was pretty visible. We were watching Glory on one of the local channels last night and every single commercial break had an Obama commerical. On the other hand, we spent the last few hours of the evening watching the Food Network, and I think I saw maybe one Clinton commercial.  On the other other hand, I didn’t see any Obama commercials on the Food Network.

Of course, none of this really matters much to me.

No, it’s not because I had planned to vote for Obama during the primary.  Well, actually, that’s part of it, but not the whole reason.

I’ve actually already voted.

Yes.  That’s right.  Already voted.

AM & I decided/were told that we needed to register to vote so that we could participate in what will hopefully be another blowout victory for Obama (though the last set of polls that I saw on Real Clear Politics didn’t seem to indicate a blowout).   As we were out-of-staters, we actually had to go down to the City Clerk’s office to register.  When we got there, the lady at the desk asked us if we wanted to vote absentee, as the official list of voters had already been printed and voting at our polling station would involve an ordeal of paperwork and probably a “provisional” ballot.

So, AM & I voted.

There was only one other thing on the ballot besides the Democrat and Republican nominees, and that was local council elections.  In speaking to AM afterwards, she had declined to vote in the local elections as…well…we’d only been in state a few months and she really didn’t know any of the local candidates.

I, of course, pursued the time honor tradition that many Americans employ while voting for things they know nothing about:  pick randomly and pray for the best.

Unfortunately for me, I may have chosen poorly.  In our car ride home, AM was telling me about some of the discussions that the long-timers had been having about the local council elections.  Apparently there’s a lady who attends every council meeting faithfully and runs every time to try and get on the council.  She’s of the extreme left-leaning, hippie-tree-hugging persuasion who, when granted the floor in the council meetings, opens every speech with a tirade about how we’re harming Mother Earth and how we should all respect the blah blah blah.

I think I may have voted for her.

My only hope is that I somehow also voted for a balancing figure while randomly choosing names.  Of course, this means I would have had to pick a fascist industrialist with a long mustache and a white cat, but there it is.

In any case, I voted.  You can stop playing the commercials now.

Please?

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