Politics at the Moment

I have found this current race for the nomination to be the party standard bearer in the fall election for President to be very interesting. No matter what I personally think of the process, ultimately each party will have a candidate, a vice president will be selected, and then we can go to the voting booth in November and make our selections. For the Republicans, apparently the candidate will be John McCain, and thus it becomes interesting whom he will select to be his running mate and how soon he will do this. He still has to be annointed by the party convention this summer to make his candidacy official.

On the Democrat side it is still a horse race with bragging rights changing back and forth but parity in the delegate count. This contest will go on probably up to the time of their convention, and then super delegates will have a deciding role. This make their whole contest interesting.

I remember in 1951 having a large sheet of paper and listening to the Republican convention as numbers were shouted out for Eisenhower and other candidates. It got quite exciting as Eisenhower got close to the number he needed to be the candidate. I kept a tally throughout and have enjoyed the elections ever since.

I do not like all the commercials that give endless sound bites of why one candidate is better than some other. I do think the process is way too long and the cost of getting elected is enormous and beyond my comprehension. If we restricted the whole process to six weeks, think of all the money that could be saved and all of the commercials we would not have to listen to.

If I have any suggestion, it is to get involved in the process and to certainly exercise your right to vote in November.