This isn't really my photo; I snagged it from the southwest Michigan Tea Party's website.
On my way to the Miller Road post office yesterday, I was stopped by a man with a clipboard.
He introduced himself, then launched into a spiel about voting and voters and freedom of choice and some other stuff meant to rouse the populist’s righteous indignation or something. I couldn’t quite follow where he was going, but after a minute or so I finally got out of him that he was collecting signatures to establish a new political party in the state of Michigan.
The party is of course the always controversial Tea Party.
It’s 11 a.m. and I’m voter number 16 in Precincts 8 and 27 combined.