To qualify myself, I am a life-long Republican.  However, this year, I am voting Democrat for the first time.  As part of that I decided to be a delegate to our county convention.  The rough agenda had a start time of 1:30PM and a probable end around 7PM.  Wow! Boy, that seems like a long day I thought.  If ONLY it had been that long.  I arrived at noon and stood in line for 2 HOURS just to get my delegate tag.  The meeting was not called to order until - oh, about 5PM.  There was alot of blah, blah, blah, blah, blah..........Long RANT short, I didn't leave until after midnight.  There was still probably a good 3-4 hours left on the agenda but I had done my part and voted to elect the delegates for our precinct to go to Austin and was not remotely interested in other reports and resolutions.  I think I have figured out why people don't get involved.  I was a literal "political prisoner" for 12 hours.  It was the most disorganized, understaffed and poorly executed event I had ever been a part of.  I don't understand the "funny math" involved in the number of delegates and how they get to the conventions.  It seemed like a monumental waste of my day (and night) when my precinct was split 6/7 for Obama and no matter what we voted on it was split exactly 6/7.  I kept thinking what's the point here when there's no way we will get a Clinton delegate to Austin?  We could have settled all this in the hallway at the school after we voted in the primary!!  I'm not so disappointed that my candidate of choice is on the losing end -- it's really just disillusionment with the whole process.  I think we should go back to one man one vote.  Count 'em up and move them into Pennsylvania Avenue!

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