Millions are trekking to the polls today and I and one of my daughters will be among them. My other daughter mailed her ballot on Saturday, but that doesn't count as an early vote.
I'm really talking about the people who voted as much as a month or more ago.
Early voting is a fool's game. A month ago Hillary was leading Barack in California by double digits. Since then, much has happened to give many voters second thoughts.
This morning's breaking news on Los Angeles radio is the most recent Zogby poll says Obama is leading Clinton by 13 points, and Romney is ahead of McCain by seven.
Believe those numbers or not, things have a tendency to change as elections near.
I learned my early voting lesson many, many elections ago.
If I remember correctly, my vote-in-error was on one of California's explosion of ballot initiatives.
Every election there are so many initiatives to wade through and decide upon that we are always wondering why we're paying state legislators at all. Even the cities get in on the act.
That ballot measure sounded like a good thing, and it was only a few days before that election that the negatives began to emerge.
So, lesson learned. Off to the polls we go. Besides exercising my suffrage right, it's a good time to say hello to neighbors I never see otherwise.
