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well, it’s come to my attention that my blog has become increasingly political. i will not apologize for this, as it is indeed a personal blog that will ebb and flow along with whatever is important to me at the time. of course, you can always count on a few regular things here on my corner of the web; pop culture, weight loss, sports, jesus, and yes… politics. who knows what will strike my fancy on any given day.

that being said, this is NOT a political blog. however, with yesterday being super-tuesday, things have leaned heavily in that direction lately. this isn’t the norm, i promise you. to prove it to you, i’m going to stay away from politics for at least two weeks. this is even easier for me seeing as how my “blog-fast” is coming up in a few days.

to close it out, i wanted to share some thoughts about super-tuesday.

• didn’t start out super. i woke up at 4am unable to breathe i was so congested. took some medicine but was unable to fall back asleep till around 7am. i slept till about 9 before i decided to start my day.
• my voice is really shaky. it comes and goes at will.
• i probably stretched it a little hard by engaging in some political debates over at marks, but it was worth it, even if i can’t talk tomorrow.
• special thanks to mark for hosting our little geek party. bigger thanks to his wife jodi for putting up with us. she thought we were all silly.
• in attendance; jason, whitlow, mark, sean, gorey, myself, and jess was paying attention as well at times. hooty even stopped in for a little while.
• anyone know the statistics on people who vote for american idol vs. the 2004 presidential election? that came up tonight…
• special thanks to my mom as well for providing some tasty snacks for the party.
• great night for obama. i know he didn’t get california, but i really think that’s ok. he got 11 states (as of this writing, missouri is still up in the air, but it looks like he’s going to get that as well, so 12) and a few of them by a landslide. conversely, he managed to stay pretty close in most of the states hillary won, so the delegate count will be extremely interesting once it’s fully realized.
• i think, this plays very highly in obama’s favor. he’ll probably finish within 100 delegates of hillary, and he’s definitely got the momentum. the more time he has, the more dangerous he is in the long run.
• who saw huckabee coming? wow did he have a great night. i lost count of how many times the reporters said the phrase “vice president” when talking about him after he started winning states. i think it’s pretty much a solid bet that mccain will select him for vp.
• despite what romney says… he’s done. put a fork in him.
• i thought cnn’s coverage was extremely well done. especially cnn-hd on mark’s television.
• hillary’s speech made everyone in the room cringe… except for the republican who is salivating at the possibility of her being the democratic candidate. why? because mccain/huckabee would CRUSH her. if the democrats don’t get their head out of their rears and start thinking about the general election (much like the smarter republicans have done with mccain) we’re going to have another republican for president. hillary is so completely polarizing. the proof is in the statistics, the independents and moderate to left leaning republicans will not vote for her. and the young vote that obama has drawn that has been so incredible to watch? they are DEFINITELY not voting for her. if it comes down to hillary vs. mccain… i’ll be praying for a bloomberg/gore ticket, even though it won’t happen, and in which case… i may just spend the next four years crying.
• a lot of people seem to not mind mccain so much. well, the democrats i hang out with anyway. i don’t agree. i can’t get behind someone who changes the words to “barbara ann” by the beach boys to sing a song with lyrics “bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb iran” or someone who thinks it’d be ok to stay in iraq for “a hundred years.” he’s too much the “status quo” for me. i don’t see any change from bush to him.
• that’s it… here’s some pictures from the evening. taken on the camera phone, so the quality sucks. you can see jason in one pointing to whitlow and giving the “thumbs down,” that’s because whitlow was the only republican in the group