The first time I voted for someone who won

[Compline]

'92...I was in my last year of college, about to enter catholic seminary...supported Bush the Lesser
'96...I had already left seminary and the catholic church, voted for Dole out of loyalty to the republicans
'00...supported Gore, voted for Libertarian
'04...vowed to never waste my vote again, supported and voted for Kerry
'08...GOBAMA!!!!

[efhmc]

1. Try being a Texas Democrat. I did get a counted vote for Clinton

twice and enjoyed that immensely.

[Compline]

2. Actually...

i do live in Texas (Austin), so i share your pain :)

[efhmc]

3. You are at least in Austin. Try living in Lampasas, where the

most freaky rw person in the world runs the paper (and his equally far right wife is on the state school board) and about 4 (we are down from 6) right wing white guys run the rest of the show.