It's finally here!

That's right, it's PRIMARY DAY in Montana! Woo-hoo! What's more, it's the last primary in this horrific campaign. I say if the Democratic Party doesn't have a nominee by Wednesday morning, they clear the chairs and desks out of the Senate chamber and toss in Barack and Hillary. Give each of them a sword and a shield, maybe toss in a few tigers, and just let them duke it out Gladiator-style.

A quick word on the primaries, now that we're at the end of them. Hillary Clinton has some pretty legitimate complaints about the way some people have been treating her candidacy. That said, a lot of well-respected party members have been urging her to drop out for some time, and she claims she has no idea why.

Here's why: Democrats wanted a nominee quickly, they wanted to get the general election started as soon as possible. That's why Super Tuesday had some obscene number of states voting: to get this thing settled ASAP. Had Obama been a hundred delegates behind and kept pushing on, party leaders would have asked him to give it up, too.

Of course, the Democratic Party had a fatal flaw in their plan: they awarded delegates to the loser as well as the winner based on precinct or county (I'm not 100 percent sure which). While McCain claimed easy victory after winning winner-take-all primaries, Democrats decided they'd try to get a quick decision and at the same time make the process more democratic.

I'm all for more democratic. I firmly believe that the closer you put actual voters to the candidate, the better. But don't kid yourself and think it's going to get things done faster.

OK. I'm done. Stories!

I got to check out Shoshone Falls for this story on the Magic Valley's summer tourism season. And I wrote a brief on a Jerome County Commissioners meeting agenda item that they didn't take up. The life of the intern!

Take care.