As involved as I have been in our presidential race over the past year now, March 4th (the Texas primary) was finally my day to vote.
Although I believe that Texas is significantly better than a lot of other states since we have an open primary system here, I believe that our system is just terrible. Absolutely and positively terrible.
The reality is that I wanted to cast a vote for Ron Paul, but none of the other Republicans on the sheet. However, since I wanted to Vote for Ron Paul, I was only allowed to choose from the other Republican candidates as well. Consequently, and with exception of Don Zimmerman (who organized the bulk of Ron Paul support in Austin), I abstained from casting a vote in any other positions.
