...in the first election after the end of Apartheid, with black South Africans voting for the first time. Nelson Mandela (just out of jail after 29 years) was running for president. The line was like this one only spread out across a great grassy field (not wrapped around city blocks). It went on and on and on! I saved that newspaper photo, it was so emotionally moving. I look at it and think of how our people don't vote. Lot of reasons for that that are not their fault, but still. South African blacks were in such a completely different frame of mind, having suffered so very much for the right to vote.
I also think that the state Democratic Party should have been better prepared for that enormous turnout--maybe not totally prepared, but BETTER prepared. It's not as if they were doing it for the first time. But either they've had NO help from the DNC on this matter--Clinton's hand-picked DNC chair is so very busy helping out the payday loan sharks in Florida--that she just has no time for helping the states in a Democratic primary year, OR she is deliberately mismanaging the DNC to produce low voter turnout. 3 to 4 hours of waiting! My God, are we a country that just invented democracy?
Of course, I'm overjoyed that Sanders supporters flooded into the caucuses! It's just hard to avoid suspecting that lack of preparation as bad as this IS deliberate. I think the chaos in NV caucuses certainly was deliberate. Are we seeing a Clinton strategy (so like the Bushwhacks)?
Or is this just a local failure--or they didn't realize what was happening in their own constituency? The latter is possible, I guess. I just learned that polls had predicted that Clinton would take Maine by 10%.
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