{"id":60,"date":"2008-01-03T15:33:12","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T21:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/2008\/01\/03\/caucus-night\/"},"modified":"2008-01-03T15:33:12","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T21:33:12","slug":"caucus-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/butchieboy.info\/blog\/2008\/01\/03\/caucus-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Caucus Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We never dreamed this night would finally arrive. After a year of constant bombardment the end has come. It is an evil portent of what it will be like next time. We Iowans joke that we never decide who to vote for till we have had each of the Presidential candidates over for dinner at least 3 times. For the last month, all the commercials around the newscasts have been political. “I am Barack Obama and I have approved this message”. The worst is the phone calls. Towards the end we were getting in excess of 20 calls a day. The good part is that we have “caller ID” and you can tell which are the political calls which we never answer. The bad is that sometimes they leave taped messages on the phone and you have to listen to the drone till you can get to the answering machine and stop it.<\/p>\n

After seeing the hopefuls last year (documented in this blog) we liked them all and would be happy to vote for even the worst one against any Republican. So to pick one was very difficult. Each has their own appeal but in the end, we felt that Edwards was the best pick.<\/p>\n

In the caucus process the participants gather in groups for the candidate they support. To go on in the process, a candidate must be viable, which means they have to have at least 15% of the people attending. In our caucus that meant 44 people. Those participants that don’t have enough supporters to make their candidate viable can realign themselves with another candidate or group together to form a viable “undecided” group. The undecided option didn’t happen at our precinct. For us, everyone was eliminated except Obama, Edwards, and Clinton. In the end, we will be sending 10 delegates to the county convention; probably 4 for Obama and 3 each for Edwards and Clinton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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