On my way to work this morning, I couldn't help but notice what the ants were up to. When you walk to work, you get the chance to pay attention to such things. I noticed that most of the ants were massing at the divider lines between each sidewalk slab.
It got me to thinking about caucuses and how we all are like those ants. If you imagine each candidate and their campaigns as a divider line in the sidewalk and the ants as people who are circling the candidates, it really does sort of graphically represent the caucus process.
Each camp is a small distance from the other camps, each person is sure that their candidate is the best one, and energy is created by talking it up with folks who are like minded.
Ocassionally, and I noted this this morning, there are a bunch of ants who hang out on the edges of the grass and they go along the border of the walk. They don't ever seem to join the circles. What are they-- uncommitted caucusers, non-caucusers, the Press? Who really knows what's on the mind of an ant or a voter for that matter--maybe they have the good sense to stand clear of the big feet of committed walkers like me who may snuff out their hopes and dreams much like the results of a caucus do to campaigns.
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