Voting Weirdness

So today is finally the PA primary election. The last 6 weeks have been somewhat annoying, but since I don't really listen to radio other than NPR, my only exposure to the advertisement deluge has been while I watched way too much TV (hey, I've been sick the last 4 days). It hasn't been too bad, got to see Chelsea on campus, but I missed the big Obama rally on Friday since j and I had tickets to the Phillies-Mets game, could have seen Hillary at the Palestra last night (right across from my lab). All-in-all, other than witnessing Barack bowl (btw, the clip I saw had him at 37 through 7, but he was coming off a spare), it hasn't been too bad. While I would have been a better bowler (at least wing it down there with some authority please), I would have been screwed as soon as I rented my size 8.5 shoes... no way the media wouldn't have laughed their ass off at my midget feet.

So on to the actual voting weirdness. First, there is a surprising opening for a state senator spot in town that has been pretty heavily advertised. So I started looking into the race to decide who to vote for and found map of the district:


Yeah, we're that little red dot in the middle. Don't you love Gerrymandering?

Finally, here is my sample ballot. Now I had to vote for my presidential nominee, but then a little further down you see where I had to vote for the delegates to the national convention who are listed by whom they are committed. What happens if I vote for Obama, but nominate a bunch of people that are committed to Hillary? I find this very confusing. Oh well, should be interesting to see the results of the election tonight, especially if it is something other than the 6-8 percent win for Hillary everyone seems to be predicting.