Well, at least, that's how we're feeling today as Colorado caucus-goers exercise their wee bit of relevancy in the Super Tuesday match up since moving its date up from June, well-after the nominations were long-decided.
Sandwiched between delegate-rich heavy weights California and New York, the Centennial State has gotten a surprising amount of love from the presidential candidates over the last week.
Barack Obama was met [10]with thunderous applause from an estimated 10,000 onlookers packed into Magness Arena at the University of Denver with overflow crowds filling an adjacent gymnasium and outdoor lacrosse field. Twelve hours later, Bill Clinton took the same stage for a late night rally [11] in support of his wife Hillary's bid for the White House to a crowd of about 5,000 who braved an unexpected snow storm to greet the former president.
On Friday, Mitt Romney made an appearance at a Denver car dealership while Ron Paul greeted supporters at the Colorado Convention Center each attracting about 1,500 people.
How those last minute appearances will affect Colorado's caucuses remains to be seen.
Especially in a state where more than a third of the electorate is unaffiliated with a political party. In order to participate in this evening's caucus, voters had to declare their party preference by Dec. 5.
However, a recently discovered glitch in the Secretary of State's voter database - which campaigns use to target potential caucus-goers - found it was inaccurately assigning party affiliations.
Still, the unprecedented attention is a new phenomenon here and bodes well for candidates with energetic grassroots campaigns and supporters with a firm grasp on caucus-wooing strategies.
Politicos are projecting more than 200,000 attendees across the state tonight.