Caucussing sucked ASS, by the way.

Paul's precinct was good, mine was a horrid waste of time.
Read the whole tale if you want, or skip it, that's all this post is:

You are supposed to get there around 6:30 to sign in and technically if you want to vote for President you are supposed to have signed in by 7 pm. People were still just wandering in at 7:45, at which point we'd often have to go back over everything. We ran out of ballots immediately, because although in some precincts only a handful of people showed up, over 100 came to mine. So we were just using scraps of paper.
(That wasn't even the annoying part.)

Now, I fully expected the caucus to be disorganized -- I hear that's part of the fun, plus it's local politics, meaning it's not run by politicians, just people, but uhhhh this was not disorganized. This was chaos due to incompetence.
For starters, unfortunately we had to be placed in the high-school cafeteria where 2 other precincts were as well. It's great that so many people showed up, but a ton showed up for the other precincts too, meaning we were mishmashed together and talking over one another and confused about who was in which and couldn't hear a thing etc etc. The precinct chair didn't know what the hell she was doing and although we got the Presidential vote done relatively quick for all the disorder (Hey Edwards! Smooth move, dropping out just as people are voting for you, ya FUCKER!)

Then we have to do things like elect delegates to the next level (Paul's a delegate for his precinct), and basically they just passed a sign-up sheet around until 34 slots were filled. Then this bitchy lady snatched it and was like "No one else sign up! You CAN, but that means we're going to have to VOTE on EVERYONE here and we'll be here forEVER." Yeah, that's letting the people practice their right to politics. Pfft. So the rest of the people who wanted to do it had to just sign up as alternates and hope that others drop out.

This whole time, people have been filling out resolution forms that we are supposed to vote on whether or not we want to pass on to the next level or not "Resolved: The Death Penalty sucks." (MN's governor suggested reinstating the death penalty in response to a crime that the Supreme Court has already said would be unconstitutional to receive the death penalty for...we've got a Smartie McSmart over here.) "This caucus resolves that the DFL party supports the removal of blahblahblahblahblah" Some were on local issues (bus strike), some were on international (universal disarmament) etc. But that's the point of a caucus, besides going in and taking 30 seconds to vote for President, getting your issues out there. And yeah, one resolution doesn't matter. But when they get compiled, and get to the next level and get compiled, etc, a picture emerges of what's on voters' minds, and I think it's kind of interesting, and I wanted to hear the resolutions, then you get to discuss and debate and modify and vote on them.

But were we able to? Of course not. CAUSE WARD FOUR PRECINCT SEVEN SUCKS! The chair grabbed the stack of resolutions (there were about 30) and said "I don't think we have time for these. We'll be here for at least another hour if we have to go through all these." Someone voiced a complaint about that, and she said "Do you see how many I have in my hand here? We can't do all these." Then the bitchy lady got back up and bitched around about how she didn't want to do all that. Well, uhhh, people, you can all leave. No one is tying you down and reading resolutions to you. But the precinct finally took a vote on whether or not to just pass 'em all on to the next level. (By the way, we spent 25 minutes debating whether or not to do that. In which we could have done a bunch of resolutions.) A bunch of us said NAY very loudly, but ... not enough.

Then it turns out that they're not going to adjourn the caucus until the tellers are done counting the Presidential vote anyway, which means forever. (Again, no one was keeping anyone there though.) And there's more dumb little business stuff to take care of. So we had plenty of time to go through the resolutions. Someone ended up skimming through all of them and then presenting a summary to us, but we didn't get to discuss them or vote, and some of the summaries were things like "This person wants the visa policy changed." Ummm, what do they want changed about it? Did I just resolve to not issue any more visas? I want to know what's being done in my name! Another lady wanted lots of censorship laws. Oh, excuse me, "not censorship, just protecting the children." But we totally would have had time to do the resolutions.

I ended up leaving the caucus about 8 cause it sucked and there was nothing else to do (and I didn't really care about finding out who my precinct voted for), and waited by Paul's car cause I figured he'd be out soon. He wasn't, and I didn't see anyone from my caucus for about an hour either. Sooo...

I hate caucussing. Next time I'm going to be a voiceful bitch who makes damn certain that if I'm there to caucus, we caucus. And if anyone doesn't want to, they can damn well leave if they want, but if I already wasted my evening, at least give me something to do, punk.