it frustrates

[anotheranon]

Understand: I will not vote Republican for love or money.

But: It frustrates me that of the Democratic contenders, one seems willing to pander to the religious right and the other seems squeamish about gay people (hat tips free_of_whip and ellid).

Indeed, one of my running complaints about the Democratic party at the national level is that they seem unwilling to play to their base, so confident of having the votes of women and racial/sexual minorities ('cos where else can they go?) that they ignore them to chase the conservative religious, who are NEVER going to vote for them because they already control the social agenda of the GOP.

Of course I've not been paying attention as well as I might during this campaign season so I will cynically check and double check the stories above to see how much water they hold. But still, it's discouraging.

Full disclosure: I didn't vote in the primaries today. I'm not registered with either party and in this state you have to be one or the other to vote in the presidential primaries.

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[dustdaughter.livejournal.com]

I didn't vote in the primaries today. I'm not registered with either party and in this state you have to be one or the other to vote in the presidential primaries.

My bad, I thought the primaries for this area were next week. But CNN has MD and DC listed on their site tonight. Whoops.

I'm a registered independent so I can't vote either. Not that I've decided who to vote for, but still it would be nice to have a say in who's nominated.

[geekchick]

MD, DC and VA's primaries are all Feb. 12. Are you in VA? If so, we have open primaries and you can vote in either one.

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Perhaps they are next week - for some reason I remembered hearing in the news that they had been moved up, but I could be remembering wrong!