I too have been frustrated the black of engagement on most of my posts. Votes are nice, but I want conversation, too.
I have delegated a bit to @curangel, but I prefer to vote manually. I don't use autovoters.
I don't envy your horse race nonsense. There are local sports here like bloomsday, hoopfest, and iron man that disrupt traffic and make life miserable for those of us with normal stuff to do.
Yeah, the conversations are much of what makes this place fun. Still not sure what happened to them though.
Curangel is one of the things that got me thinking about autovoters, so I don't have to worry about upvoting the daily roundup post. I tend to get on here in streaks, it'd be nice to put my VP to use when I am off doing other things.
Yeah, there's two weeks of events leading up to the actual race, its highly obnoxious.