Caucus 2008

It was my first time caucusing, so I didn't know what to expect. Overall, things went smoothly. Here's a play by play:

• Showed up at the nick of time (1:30 pm), though they were fairly lenient about when people could sign in (5-10 minutes even after that deadline).
• They put 4 precincts in this little middle school library. It was hard to hear each precinct head describe the rules as they talked over each other.
  
• There were 120 voters in our precinct, and 9 local delegates. Originally that came out to 6-2-1 Obama, Clinton, and undecided.
• Then, people could change their votes - a few did, most didn't.
  
• We then split up into our representative groups (Obama supporters, Clinton supporters, undecided supporters) and hung around for a bit.
• Then, it was announced that it was 7-2 Obama, Clinton. Apparently, enough undecideds voters got off the fence.
• We then elected people from our group to go to the county convention. 7 primary and 7 alternate delegates. We had a couple more than 7 primary, so people just volunteered to be alternates instead.
• Then, we split.

It took about an hour overall once things got rolling. Kind of a neat way of doing it, given the community nature and the "we elect our delegates" part of it.