Three votes. 2 for Bullock and 1 for Hartly-Nagle. Not enough to declare a winner. The caucus is hereby voided.
On the plus side, the caucus turned off the trash talk, but let’s face it…the caucus was a flop.
It was a good idea, perhaps the best idea I’ve ever had. I’ll leave that to future DelawareLiberal histrorians working toward their doctorates to figure out. But today we know that it was a flop. A big flop. So how could it be such a good idea, but such a big stinking flop? Well, was a good idea because the goals of the project were so clear and simple. But I think that those clearly articulated and rational goals also contained the seeds of the caucus’ flopitude.
Let’s take a closer look shall we?
1) The purpose of the caucus was to raise money for the eventual nominee. Brilliant! We are all Democrats right? So we are all going to rally behind the eventual winner of the primary right? Maybe, …I guess.
But in the meantime nobody wants to give money that might end up in the hands of that other candidate. People who have picked a candidate at this point know two things. they know that their candidate is great and the other candidate is horrible. God forbid they end up giving ten bucks to THAT unworthy person. What a clamity. And what a pessimistic mindset. I guess only three people thought that they were making a contribution to their candiate via this process. Oh well.
2) The purpose of the caucus was to allow Delaware Liberal Readers, commenter’s, and lurkers to direct us when it comes to endorsing one of these candidates. There was a little hitch, and I take the blame for this. I want to get to an endorsement and start working on beating Mike Castle so maybe I jumped the gun. It seems that as of today, DelawareLiberal readers have not heard much from any of the candidates so nobody knows enough to make a sound decision.
Then again, maybe it isn’t so early. Maybe the campaigns could have been doing more over the last few months to get the word out TO THE MOST POLITCALLY PLUGGED IN READERSHIP IN THE STATE. I mean sheesh. This was one of my big problems with Dennis Spivack. Get your dang message to the 450 people who regularly read this blog! Get them worked up. A decent percentage of the 450 ARE THE HOTTEST OF HOT PROSPECTS. DelawareLiberal readers are your political EARLY ADOPTERS. Court them. Which brings me to…
3) The purpose of the caucus was to allow the people running to be the Democratic candidate for US Congress to demonstrate their organizational strengths by encouraging supporters to donate. Well they didn’t. So they blew a good opportunity. And if anyone thinks they can run against Castle and pass up some low hanging fruit like this caucus they are either nuts or being poorly advised. Winning this caucus would have been meaningless for the most part. Except for the fact that it would have been a “win.” No big whoop.
Do I want everyone to drop whatever they’re doing and jump because I get off on it?
Give me a break. No.
I am an open book. I want to help get Delaware (a Democratic state by any measure) represented by a Democrat in the US House. And I don’t think it would have been too taxing for any of the campaigns to get 10 supporters to “vote” in this thing. But they could not bother. And so, while I am still someone who plans to work his ass off for the eventual nominee, right now I am agnostic about who I want that person to be. I want to work for someone who wants to win.
We’ll try again in a month or so and see if anyone is awake yet. Maybe the next voting period will be three weeks instead of three days. Maybe each candidate will be able to post to this site at least once during that period to make their case. Who knows.
I do know one thing, there will be no advance notice of when it will take place.