... and since then I guess I only ever supported the nominee as my first choice in an open primary once, in 2000. From Udall to Gore to Babbit to Edwards ... the ambition reached for in the primary has almost always exceeded the grasp ...

... and the only time my primary pick was the nominee, he won the election but was not sworn in as President, so now I'd probably be nervous if my first choice was, in fact, the nominee.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.