I've gotten a lot of positive feedback from comments about my unusual family from Ohio.  So, on the eve of this immportant election, I thought I'd make a little diary about it to share with you all.

My family is solid working class.  My Grandpop worked at the Hoover Vacuum Co., in Canton, Ohio, his whole life.  My Pop worked right along side him until Grandpop retired, and my brother worked right alongside my Pop until he retired.  

My brother lost his job there when the factory closed this year and moved to Mexico due to NAFTA.  Three generations of the family worked in that place and they closed the doors without even a thank you to any of them.

As for me...I never liked factories.  I went off and got too much education and found myself, somehow, in Canada.

There was a whole lotta talk about how Bill and Hillary played the race card in South Carolina.  Bill's comparison to Jesse Jackson angered and offended enough Black people to ensure that Hillary lost the entire demographic for the rest of her life.

But this campaign is not about a race card--it's about the whole dispicable deck! They're all in play from South Carolina, to Southern Ohio. All 52 cards and the Joker, ta boot!

Greetings to all.

I'm an American citizen living in Canada since 2000.  

I, like tens of thousands of others all around the world, was pleased to cast my vote in the Democrats Abroad primary on Super Tuesday.  As you may know Obama carried the Dems Abroad vote 3-1, and taking the vote of American expats in Canada  by an equally large margin.

Not surprisingly, only fleeting attention has been paid to the primary by the media, most likely because the 22 delegats (worth 1/2 each) are not all that significant in the final tally.

Nevertheless, that vote is far more meaningful than has been recognized.

I'll explain after the jump...