Yesterday was the Birmingham Mayoral Primary and as usual, the local tv stations had to broadcast the results during primetime programming. My level of interest with this is minimal because I don't live there, and if I did, I doubt I would care enough to vote. What peaked my interest was the lack of votes that the bottom two candidates received. The bottom dwellers in the race failed to get more than 42 votes out of over 52,000 (52,111 to be exact).

How embarrassed do those people feel this morning? Imagine going to work knowing that only your family and friends voted for you (if that). Some family members probably didn't vote for them because the candidates can barely tie their shoes much less run a city. What's more embarrassing is that 10 percent of the votes received are probably mistakes. Florida has already shown us that punching a hole in a piece of paper is too complicated. Is touching a screen any easier? How do these candidates not know that the majority of their votes come from people on their campaign staff? How much money did they waste trying to get 42 votes? Isn't that like taking a test and only scoring five points? You really have to try to be that terrible. With all of the polls leading up to the election, shouldn't someone have noticed these candidates were expected to get less than 1% of the votes? If ignorance is bliss, these people must be in euphoria.