When I got home after the Texas caucus the other night, it suddenly came to me that I had missed a wonderful opportunity to be my own little 15 minute person of the day.
In this Texas Two-step, the caucus is a secondary process which bodes the end results with having no undeclared present. The "indecided" do not exist as they would in Iowa. As such the caucus – the discussion period to swing votes – lasted about 30 seconds. Though change is in the air it does not include changing your vote.
If I knew then what I know now…
I would have filled out the signing sheet as UNDECLARED. After the sheets were collected and counted, the director would come back and section us off into three areas rather than two. I – just me – would have had my own area! Wow hey?! Ten square feet of area in a elementary school cafeteria! And when the director said "GO!", I would have had two groups of 50 people all animated, chanting and screaming at me to come with them.
I would make little baby steps one way, drift back, little baby steps the other way…
I can sooth my soul by saying "next time", but there will never be another one in my lifetime close enough to matter. So I pass this on to the younger souls of Texas. File it in the back of your mind and perhaps one day you could be the most important person in the world to a hundred people, for 15 minutes.