Watching the Rain Fall

Oregon doesn’t matter. Now I know this is a very non-Oregonian, non-Pacific NW, non-Cascadian (long live Cascadia!) thing to say. But what other message are we to get from our Primary date? May 20. That is correct people, May 20. A full three months and fifteen days after Super-Tuesday. So do we get any say in who our next president is? Very little. We sit here quietly being ignored until we are told who our presidential candidates will be. Because at this point everyone but one have withdrawn. With the increasingly early, increasingly fast campaigns a vice-presidential candidate has often been chosen before we get a say on our chosen parties candidate. So we get a choice of 2. It is the rest of the country that gets a say on if it will be between anyone that is actually a decent candidate. For heaven’s sake Iowa went first! Iowa!