Super Tuesday

Super Tuesday

I’d rather be in bed right now than sitting here and writing this, but I haven’t responded to a lot of e-mail lately, so I’m sure some people are worried about me. My weekend was only one-third as exciting as Craig Ferguson‘s, who officially became an American citizen on Friday, flew a plane solo for the first time on Saturday, and enjoyed the Super Bowl on Sunday—I did the Sunday part, woohoo!—but today alone was exciting enough for me.

I drove H.E. to Burbank so he could vote, and boy am I tired.

I mailed my vote in last week so I wouldn’t have to worry about it … because I hate, hate, hate the drive up to Los Angeles. I’m an old San Diego girl now living in Orange County, so L.A. always seems like such a mess to me traffic-wise. I knew I wouldn’t want to bother with finding my own polling place on top of a trip to L.A.

But we didn’t stop at just getting H.E. to where he could vote. After a nice lunch and a trip to his post office box, H.E. and I actually took an hour and a half to strike with the Writer’s Guild. Go, us!

So we picketed just outside of the Warner Brothers studio on Hollywood Way and Olive because the strikers there looked a little sparse, like they could use the help. I guess after 13 weeks of striking, people start to drop like flies, even so close to an agreement (if the rumors are true!) so we jumped in to lend a hand.

And it was fun!

I do hope the union and the alliance come to an agreement soon, though. I really miss my scripted shows and can’t stand to watch the reality and game shows.

Give the writers the extra four cents already, sheesh! They deserve all that and more.

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5 thoughts on “Super Tuesday”

  1. Screenwriters are revolting!!! (But you know that better than most)

    Thanks for walking the line…

  3. I don’t understand the election process over there. The results are interesting, and I have a general idea of what’s going on, but I’m still baffled by the details. And I’m puzzled…why do you have to travel far to vote?

  4. Well … right now, the two big parties (Republicans and Democrats) are deciding on their candidates, so these are the primary elections. In some states, only party members get to vote in these elections; in other states, anyone can.

    But once they’ve tallied the votes, the parties then get their delegates together to officially nominate the more popular candidates. Delegates are active, honored, or leading party members; they’re the ones who actually get to put in the nomination in the party at the conventions. The primary election votes that a candidate gets determines the number of the supporting delegates they get. So in a sense, the more primary election votes you have, the more official party votes you get.

    The math is kind of weird and complex, and registered Democrat H.E. constantly has to explain it to me because even I’m confused about the whole process. I’m registered as an independent, so I don’t pay very close attention to the parties’ processes.

    After the conventions, once the delegates’ votes are tallied, each party has one presidential candidate who then runs in the general election. This is where the other parties, like the Green and Libertarian parties, usually campaign their candidates.

    As for why we have to travel so far … H.E. is registered to vote in Burbank because he used to live there, and he didn’t have an absentee ballot.

    I used to live in San Diego, so for a while, even after I moved to Orange County, I was still registered to vote there, and I’d get my absentee ballot and mail it in. There were a few times I didn’t have an absentee ballot and had to drive down to San Diego to vote, but now I’m registered up here, so I don’t have to go out of town.

    I still prefer mailing it in, though. It’s just so easy. 🙂

  5. Thanks. I can’t say I understand it completely, but it makes more sense now. We had our federal elections late last year, and the official campaign ran for about 2 months. That was exhausting enough. I can’t imagine drawing it out this long, although I can see that it’s a good test of mettle for the candidates.

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