Today I ran, and lost, my first official political campaign.
A bit of background: To be on the democratic primary ballot in Massachusetts for Governor, Lt. Governor, and some other state and federal positions, you have to receive a certain percentage of the delegates' votes at the state's Democratic Convention. To be a delegate who gets to cast a vote, you have to be elected at your region's caucus.
I've recently been getting involved with the Deval Patrick campaign and they needed people to show up and run to be on their slate of delegates. So I agreed to show up and run as an alternate delegate on the slate. However, 'twas not to be. Many memebers of the Deval Patrick slate were elected, but a few did not make it and I was one of those few.
So my political career has gotten off to a rocky start. But I am not disuaded. I still signed up to be an add-on delegate, which means that if there are any slots unfilled across the state, they select people to show up and fill them. I don't know when I'll know whether or not I've been chosen for that, but I'd like to be able to go to the convention if possible.