Well guys, tonight I voted in a caucus. This was my first time at a caucus, back in 2012 I was still registered in California. I took Carolyn with me because she doesn't believe in bedtime anyway, and I wanted the company. I think she loved seeing so many people, she's our little social butterfly. Luckily she did awesome, I was glad that I brought her, and Marty got a quiet evening at home with Peter already in bed.
Here are my takeaways from this caucus:
- If the rest of Utah is anything like my precinct, I will be floored if Trump receives a single delegate.
- Cruz was the big time favorite in my precinct.
- It was really neat seeing people in my neighborhood there and feeling that since of political fervor amongst my friends and neighbors.
- I was surprised to simply write my vote on a piece of paper and drop it into an envelope, that seems both easy and difficult to corrupt.
- I was sitting there as they were asking who wanted to be a delegate and people were not chomping at the bit to do it. If I didn't have an insanely busy husband and two needy babies I would have LOVED to run. I think that's on my bucket list now. (And I didn't even have a bucket list five minutes ago.)
- I don't have a comparison because it was my first time, but the turnout seemed massive. I had to park about a block away and there were people everywhere. It made me hope that Utah's turnout was better this year because apparently it's notoriously been one of the lowest in the nation.
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