I strolled into the Tuckahoe Elementary School in Henrico County around 9:15 a.m. to exercise the mother of all civic rights and vote. There were no lines. Voting took about two minutes. One poll attendant said that only 120 people had voted so far, compared to 500 or more during the presidential election at the same point in time. The turn-out, it appears, will be as light as the experts have been predicting. The winners in the hotly contested primaries will be not be those who garner wide support but those who motivate a loyal core of supporters.
One thing I learned a long time ago, however, was never to predict the outcome of elections, so you’ll see no such forecasts from me.