OPEN ELECTION THREAD: Did You Vote Absentee?

by: huntsu

Thu Jan 31, 2008 at 10:12:20 AM EST

But the February 5th Presidential Primary is different, with the relative strength of various candidates determined in contests that are over an public before ours even starts.  By the time they get to us, the outsided Iowa and New Hampshire primaries will be over.  Michigan and Florida, with huge delegate counts that may or may not matter in the convention predate ours.  Nevada and South Carolina are considered really important as representatives of the newly important Southwest and the always important South.

With all those contests done by February 5, some candidates may drop out or be totally marginalized.  If you cast your vote for Richardson -- not a bad vote and just an example -- and he's dropped out after Florida and throws his support to Hillary your vote is wasted.

I'm glad that I did not vote absentee, because yesterday my candidate dropped out.  My husband, however, did vote absentee for a candidate before they dropped out and is now wishing he could have voted later.

So now here is the question (with poll below): did you already vote for someone out of the race?  

Please explain in comments how you feel if your candidate is out of the race already and you voted for them absentee, or if you plan on voting for them anyway, or anything else you want.

Open election thread.