I know this is a little late, but I'm still getting caught up after our melt down the other week.

It is election season for the NRA again. Bitter has a scan of the full ballot of candidates. Dave Hardy has a roundup of some of the names being favored by bloggers. He also explains his method of vote rationing:

when I started voting, on, 20 years ago, I would take the number of votes allowed and fill up to that number. This year it's 26.

I later figured out why it was unwise to do this. In practice, there would be 15-20 people that I felt quite qualified, and I was then adding some others about whom I was uncertain. In practice, I was adding to the vote count of those of whom I was uncertain, and some years some of them would beat out people I felt were solidly qualified.

Thus I learned to vote for the folks I felt were quite qualified, and stop there, even if it was less than the 25-26 allowed.

A theory also advocated by Tom Wright.

Another theory for casting NRA ballots:

I will vote for every candidate from a blue state, in the hope that more folks from states where gun rights are most under threat will be elected.

First suggested as far as I know by Nathaniel Firethorn.