Having Fun Yet?

Can you believe how many people are voting in these primaries?

Nearly a hundred thousand more in New Hampshire than last time, nearly twice as many in South Carolina, almost three times as many as four years ago in Michigan.

And I'll tell you something else: I've been in all the primary states and Iowa, too -- and the headline for me is, people are voting because they are really enjoying these elections. Everywhere I went people were talking politics, speculating, arguing, caught up in the excitement.

Part of it has to be the good times, part of it has to be new faces on the scene but I'm wondering if another reason is that a good hard-fought contest has just made politics fun again. Fun to talk about. Like it used to be.

That's a change. With Capitol Hill mired in rancor and partisan gridlock and that other little matter at the White House in recent years, politics has been so uninteresting you didn't want to talk about it and so seamy you hesitated to bring it up in front of the kids.
But these primaries have changed the subject.

I have no idea who'll get the nomination in either party. But people are talking politics again and I like it, like that.