Naomi, Ilana and I attended the Democratic Party caucus at North City Elementary School. So confusing in Washington State, they have caucuses AND a primary just a few weeks apart. The Democrats have decided that all of the delegates will be from the caucuses. I've just read accounts on the Seattle Times website from people who attended caucuses and they sounded tremendously like my experience. Tons of people, a simple agenda barely executed, crowd cooperative, delegates selected, most delegates to Obama.
Exciting day for Washington yesterday. Suddenly, for one 24 hour period, Washington State was presidential candidate central. Nobody hardly ever comes here but Hilary had a big rally on Thursday night downtown at one of the piers, Obama had a huge meeting at Key Arena on Friday afternoon and John McCain appeared at the Westin Friday evening. All events free to the public. Crazy!
When we first arrived, everybody gathered in the gym, confused voters trying to figure out which precinct (we already knew). The main candidates had some tables (Obama had some chips and dip at his). Many many people, a huge turnout. You signed a paper indicating your candidate. The precincts were assigned subsidiary rooms but, because of a locked door, our precinct met in the school lobby. Our State Legislator (who lives in our precinct) ran our caucus also adding in some legislative updates. She asked for volunteers to give one minute speeches on behalf of the candidate. Two older men volunteered and gave quite good speeches (points to one for using the word "transcendent"). The volunteers tallied the votes, 5 delegates for Obama, 2 for Hilary, 1 uncommitted. The groups gathered to select their delegates and equal number of alternates. In our Clinton group, 3 people vied for the two delegate positions, we voted on little scraps of paper. I volunteered to help tally the votes.
Results?
My neighbor Mike is an Obama delegate. My daughter Ilana is a Clinton alternate. My daughter Naomi is an Undecided alternate. Here they are!
1 comment:
uh, still confusing. And you have a primary. It would be pretty neat to be a national delegate, but I cant fight, so I guess this year is out. LOL.
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