Election Day: Presidential Primary 2016

Voting accomplished. I was very pleased to vote for a woman for President, for the first time ever. I voted for Obama last time around, but Hillary Clinton has impressed me a lot over the last several years and I've come to believe that most of the opinions I had held about her were based on Republican slanders from the 90's and had nothing to do with her actual record. There are things in her actual record I disagree with, but there are such with Sanders as well, and I have been disappointed by his choice of campaign staffers and the overall whiteness of his support. In addition, I feel that Hillary's experience in diplomacy is vital at this point for America's future in the world. I will, of course, vote in the general election for whichever of Bernie or Hillary is actually nominated, because Please See Icon, because Supreme Court, and because the Republican slate contains not a single candidate I can foresee doing a decent job of governing, let alone having policies I could actually support. [gratuitous and reflexive personal insults toward the available Republican candidates redacted]

When they handed me my ballot, though, I was very surprised to see NINE names on it. I've never even heard of six of these guys. O'Malley quit six weeks ago, but I guess they don't remove names from the ballot in Missouri, or it was too late to do so.

Jon Adams
Hillary Clinton
Roque De La Fuente

Henry Hewes
Keith Judd
Martin O'Malley

Bernie Sanders
Willie Wilson
John Wolfe