A Democracy Explosion

Forget about who wins or loses – the real story of this election is the incredible participation. It is absolutely insane. In fact, if you want to participate in your precinct caucus but thought you were too late, hurry on down, you still might make it. I'd estimate about 500 people showed up at my precinct 242 (the Crestview neighborhood and almost half of Brentwood), and it was nuts.

First off, we had to wait until about 8pm for the last voter to finish, and didn't start the sign-up sheets until 8:15 or so. I'd estimate they won't get everyone signed in until 9:30, and then they'll have to start the process of selecting my neighborhood's 91 delegates and 91 alternates. I just signed the sheet and left, and about 95% of the crowd was still waiting.

I've never seen anything like this. I participated in the caucus four years ago (after the nomination was cinched for Kerry), and there were about 30 of us there.