My experience with the Texas Primary was not unlike Scott’s, only we were attempting to fit about 500 people into a 35-man classroom on a college campus. We ended up forming two lines, going down the hall each way, each supporting a different candidate. Somehow, I was drafted into actually playing traffic cop for these two lines. Fortunately, I had the foresight to put the Obama line down the long hall.

My coworker, who is from France, is completely baffled and befuddled by stories such as these, especially when you get to the part where Obama lost the primary but (probably) won the caucus in Texas.

At some point to him, I said to him that he was a game designer, and therefore was expecting the rules to be uniform and expected, like chess. But primary politics isn’t like chess. It’s more like playing Magic, where you think you know the rules, and then someone comes along and plays an ancient card you’ve never seen before, and you say, “Wow, that’s completely broken. I can’t believe they printed that.” And then we talked about Mao for half an hour.

Anyway, today’s wacky game rule: in the Democratic party’s ‘democratic’ system, states that voted in May/June would get a 30% democracy bonus! It is unknown at this time whether, upon casting their votes, voters would hear a voice say “VOTING RAMPAGE!”