There's no help for it. Tomorrow I vote (in the first Democrats Abroad online primary). My ballot and PIN numbers arrived via e-mail this morning. After months of sitting on the fence I must choose a candidate and leap into the primary fray. I have read candidate diaries, and poll diaries, and endorsement diaries, occasionally feeling older than God, because I was a passionate Dean supporter four years ago, and knew all about the heartbreak of settling on a candidate too early. As it turns out, the seeds of my decision were sown months ago (on Wednesday, September 26, to be exact), during the MSNBC-hosted Democratic debate, when I was startled by one of the answers and had to ask, "Is our candidates learning?"
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