"I don't belong to an organized political party - I'm a Democrat."

[Richardo]

Thank you, Will Rogers. I heard that phrase a number of times tonight.

I voted in the Texas primary and stayed for the caucuses.

In 2004, Kerry was already nominated by the time Texas voted, and there were about a dozen people in our caucus.

Tonight, there were at least 700 activist Democrats, and this is a 90% GOP suburb in a very GOP state. The crowd was about evenly split between our two candidates, and, despite the fact that: 1) the caucus was 45 minutes late starting (big turnout!), 2) there was a severe shortage of sign in sheets, and 3) there was a distinct lack of any real centralized leadership, everyone remained calm, jovial, positive and polite. It was SO unlike GD-P that it restored my faith in my fellow Democrats and reminded me how UNlike real life DU can be. (As much fun as I have here, it's SO much better outside - outside the rancor, outside the vitriol, outside the circular firing squads.)

I love election days.