These people vote.

You may have heard a bit about a jury verdict in Washington, D.C. yesterday, in which the former right hand man to our Esteemed Vice President was convicted of four felonies. The news was much-awaited, though our press will probably not give it the focused attention it deserves.

I spent my day yesterday with a federal investigator, working on a matter for a client. We were on an extended break in our meeting, waiting for a witness to arrive, when I saw that the Libby jury had delivered a verdict. I popped over to the room where the investigator waited to let her know, and her response was, "Who is Scooter Libby?" Gently outlining the story didn't help, and neither did a detailed explanation of the Plame/Wilson/Novak background. The federal investigator--a government employee living in a metropolitan area within the United States of America--had never heard about the leaking of a CIA agent's identity to defend against an attack on the administration's false rationalizations for the war in Iraq, had never heard about an extended investigation of the leak by independent counsel, in which members of the press were jailed based on their refusal to reveal sources, had never heard that a top level administration official was indicted, later claiming in court that he was a scapegoat for Vice President Dick Cheney and Karl Rove.

But I'll bet she votes.