I'm a bad voter. When it comes to the presidential primary, North Carolina initially seemed like it was going to be a complete afterthought with both of the major parties' scrappin' matches done and decided. I'd like to claim that's what kept it off my radar, but of course we've known for some time that the donkeys would still be duking it out. Instead, I'm a spouter of that standard lazy American doggerel of being too busy to pay attention to my local politics.

firthofforth did an amazing job of pouring through a "Voter's Guide" we received to figure out who should get our household's support when it came to elected positions like Commissioner of Insurance and Superintendent of Public Instruction only to discover upon her arrival at the polling place bright and early this morning that she'd neglected to sort through the candidates for Governor and U.S. Senate. Luckily, she called to warn me about the hole in her prep work and I waited until the drive home to give me some time for added research. Since we're not talking about races that are as hotly contested as that Barack-Hilary face-off, information was hard to come by. For many of the races, I inadvertently become a single-issue voter as the only contrasting information I could find involved the individual candidates stances on immigration, which hardly seems like the most important topic around here.

I also suspect this the first time since firthofforth and I have been going to same polling station that we voted for different presidential candidates. I guess we canceled each other out.

I'll have to be a better kid when it comes to voting prep in November.