Steve, it’s funny - at the time, I wasn’t sure, but since sending in my absentee ballot, I feel a whole lot better about my decision. The BF did the same on Tuesday, and he feels good about it, too. Who knows? If the returns keep going the way they are, maybe Edwards will decide to keep his campaign in suspension all the way to the election, and actually use his delegates as we’re hoping. Symbolic, sure, but then again, I always wind up voting (in the primaries, at least) for the loser, because inevitably, the frontrunner’s too much of a whore for my taste.

If it’s true that a vote for Kucinich invalidates the whole ballot, though, that’s terrible. That’s one of the reasons that I believe ballot standards and access for presidential races should be federalized: It would do away with a lot of this two-bit localized voter suppression bullshit (which, while two-bit, still manages to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters, at a minimum, in every election).

I’m not certain, but I believe Edwards will still be on the Texas ballot, so yes, I’ll vote for him in the primary.

FWIW, the image is not copyright by me. I found it on Google Images a long time ago. It had no ownership info. I assumed, and assume, it is public domain. All I did was crop the background to a circle and create a mirror image from it, with the dog facing… left.

(Aside to NTodd: the Texas DP stripped Kucinich from our primary ballot because he refused to sign an oath to support the Dem nominee in November. The way things work here, as I understand them, if I vote for Dennis, I automatically invalidate my whole ballot.)