Thanks for going!

"Don't know how much or how the absentee ballots will impact."

CNN or MSNBC coverage:

Anchor: "And they've come in, those absentee ballots, putting President Hill- I mean, putting Secretary Clinton Ahead..wow!"

Other anchor: "Interesting, but there were more ballots coming in than people living in all those areas, how do you explain that?"

First anchor: "Good point, but you know, I think it's that Bernie seems to over-promise and isn't electable, ya know?"

Second anchor: "That makes sense, yes, it really all fits together now. In other news..."

Sorry for the grim joke ...thanks for good news update!

Glad to see everyone bundled up. Hope you were, too, magical thyme,

Near the beginning they had one person speak for each candidate. Fine. EXCEPT: The Hillary person introduced himself "oddly." We were in a combination gym/cafeteria, with no mike, so it was hard to hear every word. But the gist of it was he's lived here for all of 4 weeks, been campaigning for Hillary.

I immediately wondered if she's paying people to live in various locations temporary to speak at caucuses?!? If she is, dumb move. He spoke some general pablum from memory, interspersed with a lot of "ums." Not impressive.

There were 3 undecideds. I don't know where they ended up, but there were several of us talking to them. A formerly independent socialist told them that Bernie was unelectable but was driving Hillary to the left, so they should vote for her to keep pushing her left. GRRRRR!

So I immediately talked about electability and how he wins every single matchup poll against every GOP candidate by up to double digits, whereas Hillary loses to them. Oh yeah, and the way to make him electable is to vote for him! Then I went to foreign policy. I said there's good experience and there's bad experience. That Hillary's experience consisted of regime change and leaving broken countries, that she broke Libya and left it open for ISIS. That Syria's uprising and civil war didn't start as part of the arab spring, that it started as 1,000 year drought that farmers were starving and went to Assad for help. That I'd always blamed Assad until a couple weeks ago when I learned that Assad came to State seeking aide. That was a missed opportunity to turn Assad, that we blew off that opportunity and that Clinton's State dept. instead fomented the rebellion. I thought the Hill caucus leader's head would explode. Then I went to experience, about how he is known as "the amendment king" in congress, that he's gotten hundred or thousands of progressive amendments through GOP congresses. I cited a more recent one: that in 91 or 92, he got a GOP congress to pass $100million funding to Community Health Centers to provide health care to uninsured poor. And that when ACA/Obamacare was in trouble he got an amendment that added enough funding to provide healthcare to 10 million people without insurance. I think I was waving my papers around by then, lol. I said I had a long list of quotes from Republican senators about Bernie. That they respect him. That they say he is tough, tenacious, dogged, not to be underestimated. But they can work with him, he compromises and is honest and trustworthy. That he brings republicans and dems together. And then I stopped to get a breath (I didn't dare stop before because a young liberal to my left kept breaking in and trying to talk over me, repeating my points, lol) and they thanked me. So I decided to quite while I was ahead.

I also ran into a couple people I met back in '04 when I did the master gardener thing, so there was a little social benefit too. Maybe I'll start venturing out a little this spring and see if I can find a friend or two