I guess I do care...

Now I wonder if I should be switching parties.

I just threw my support behind a candidate for the '08 prez race. Not much as I always feel poor, but I've never felt strongly enough before to even bother looking at campaign websites.

This time I feel different. And I decided that I wanted to actually support the candidate that I want to win. So I made a campaign contribution.

Strange coming from me, as I refused to vote for prez in the last cycle because I couldn't stand any of them.

Of course that now leads into the next question. Should I switch the party that I'm registered under? I'm currently registered republican, but the candidate I'm supporting is dem. With the race on the dem side being as tight as it is, I wonder if I should switch for primary reasons alone. It does no good for me to keep my current affiliation when I would be forced to choose from the republican candidates on primary day, when it would really be better for me to be hitting a dem button.

I guess I have time to decide on the party question. Current predictions are that candidates will have to raise between 70-100 million in the next couple of months to even be able to make hillary bat an eyelash. And since many of them won't make it I expect the field to shrink considerably before the end of the year. (All the more reason I contributed so early the money at this stage is incredibly important)

Anyway, as silly as it sounds, start looking at the candidates now. I know that we're still a year from the primaries, but many good candidates will be forced to drop out if they can't raise funds. The people need to put up a candidate that can do some good for the country, and some of the current front runners aren't it (IMHO), even if you've never cared about politics before now's a good time to start.

/end political message