primary day

Well, I sort of voted -- I am a permanent absentee voter because my neighborhood polling place has terrible parking, so I vote in the privacy of my own home (the tradeoff is I don't get the nifty sticker).

I mailed in my ballot last week, but I guess I forgot to request a Democratic primary ballot (I am registered Independent) so I didn't get to weigh in on the presidential candidates, just the ballot measures and propositions. In all honesty, I do not know for whom I would have voted. Both of my preferred candidates have dropped out, my views coincide with the fringiest of the remaining fringe guys, and I see good and bad things in both frontrunners. Meanwhile the whole campaign machine and the vast sums of money that keeps it going make me ill. At least after today we won't be subjected to this barrage of campaign ads and phone calls for a while.

If you are registered to vote in one of the 24 states having primaries today, and you haven't voted already, I sincerely hope you will do so. It's that important.