Caucus Day is finally here, and I couldn't be more pleased. I have my blue shirt, red tie, and Mitt Romney campaign sticker on, I have a full schedule for therapy, and I get off work an hour early so I can go round the neighborhood and pick up septigenerian and octogenerians and take them with me to our precinct tonight. For a political junkie, it's like having the Super Bowl in your backyard.

Last night I spent some time over at the county headquarters for Des Moines County (which happens to be nowhere near Des Moines, Iowa) and made some phone calls to Republicans in Burlington, helping them know where their precinct is and counting potential votes. It was so much fun that I called Shauri afterward and asked her if there was anything else I could do to help our county (she's the county chair for Henry County). Indeed she did have a stack of tasks for me. She's been working very hard for the campaign. Yesterday she was able to get more people to change their votes when she followed up on the calls she made almost a month ago. She reported though that there are a lot of people who still haven't made up their minds about who they will support, and aren't even bothering to do the research on the candidates to see what their positions are.

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