Today, I did my duty and was a poll worker for 4 hrs this morning. And to be honest, I was totally surprised. Now a little bit of background - I am what is known as a “yellow dog democrat” - I would vote for a yellow dog is he/or she was a democrat. So the truth is I don’t hang around many republicans - I just don’t have a lot to talk to them about. But this morning I was working a precinct that is about 70% republican, and I have to tell you, I was amazed. I think there were maybe 5 people out of the 260 voters that came through that I would have thought of as typical republicans. The rest of the folks were just regular working class folks. And yet they were registered republican. I was amazed at what I saw.
So Wednesday night we had a really nice spring thunder storm. But then on Friday morning, it started again, and by the end of the day, there was 15 inches of snow in th middle of the state. Jamie was speaking at the South Dakota History conference - doing a reading from Washsaka. It was really nice, but back to the weather. Today, it is sunny and beautiful. Typical South Dakota. I was reading the paper this morning and it was talking about which state had the most optimistic people, and guess what - it was South Dakota! So crazy, but I suppose it could be true. After all, things are always really really tough in South Dakota - you have to work like crazy to make a living, but we are used to it. So in really all the people who are left here in South Dakota are the folks that hung on during the depression - all the slackers left. They moved…well, I don’t want to imply that the softies are living somewhere else, but I will say, you have to be either crazy, or really tough to live here. And if you are really crazy, then I suppose you could be said to be optimistic.
Anyway, here’s the storm!
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