I voted!

Marc Majcher · Post by **Marc Majcher** » March 4th, 2008, 4:14 pm

We just got back from voting at Zilker, and will be taking the goblin to caucus later on.

arthursimone · Post by **arthursimone** » March 4th, 2008, 4:20 pm

I voted early, made calls and will head over to the east side campaign office in a second to see if there's anywhere they want to send me last-minute...

i've spoken with lots of obama supporters, which is good for reminding them to caucus... only one adamant hillary supporter. one dude grilled me on my knowledge of how the voting system works (both primary and general election), I think to make me feel ignorant and willing to listen to his anti-government tirade

Asaf · Post by **Asaf** » March 4th, 2008, 4:28 pm

I went by my precinct voting station, but my re-registration is still too recent so I am in the books but not able to vote today.

Justin D. · Post by **Justin D.** » March 4th, 2008, 4:38 pm

I'm leaving to vote now, but won't go to a caucus. I'm a little lost on the reasoning behind caucusing; however, I do know that caucusing is easy.

arthursimone · Post by **arthursimone** » March 4th, 2008, 4:58 pm

Justin Davis wrote:I'm leaving to vote now, but won't go to a caucus. I'm a little lost on the reasoning behind caucusing; however, I do know that caucusing is easy.

the iowa caucus is different, remember
all the texas one is is signing the sheet that has your candidate's name on it

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » March 4th, 2008, 5:28 pm

Justin Davis wrote:I'm a little lost on the reasoning behind caucusing

The candidates are competing for 2,025 delegates to get the nomination. Supporting your candidate at a caucus informs delegates directly which candidate you'd like them to side with.

Jessica · Post by **Jessica** » March 4th, 2008, 6:51 pm

I'm voted last week and now I'm going to caucus with my daughter to show her the democratic process.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » March 4th, 2008, 8:01 pm

Jessica wrote:I'm voted last week and now I'm going to caucus with my daughter to show her the democratic process.

Awesome Jessica!

I just got back from the Travis Heights Elementary School caucus. Does anybody have any stories about the chaotic madness that is called the Texas Two-Step?

kaci_beeler · Post by **kaci_beeler** » March 4th, 2008, 9:54 pm

I went all the way out to North Round Rock to vote in my precinct. The line for the democratic party was so much longer than the Republican one.
Couldn't caucus, had to come back to the ATX.

That was my first time to vote for presidential candidates!

slappywhite · Post by **slappywhite** » March 4th, 2008, 10:01 pm

Wow looks like a sweep for Sata...er...Hillary. Wonder how much Limbaugh's call for Republicans to vote for Clinton in the primary helped.

Roy Janik · Post by **Roy Janik** » March 4th, 2008, 10:21 pm

slappywhite wrote:Wow looks like a sweep for Sata...er...Hillary. Wonder how much Limbaugh's call for Republicans to vote for Clinton in the primary helped.

Obama already won Vermont, and Texas is 50/50 so far. So no sweep yet.

Also, caucus-wise, here's a picture of mine:

Eventually they had us get into an Obama line and a Hillary line. The Obama line was much larger, but not crazy larger. All in all, my caucusing took about an hour 15 minutes. I hear other peoples' were much crazier.

improvstitute · Post by **improvstitute** » March 4th, 2008, 10:26 pm

My caucus produced 15 deligates. Obama got 9 and Clinton got 6. I am an alternate deligate for Obama.

Hats off to everyone who took part in the process. Now to the TV to see the rest of the results!!!

GOBAMA!

Jessica · Post by **Jessica** » March 4th, 2008, 10:34 pm

I only got home after 10pm. We had a total of 306 at our caucus and it split exactly evenly. Crazy, but we have an odd number of delegates so they told us to flip a coin for the extra. My daughter got to flip the coin. We are going to the county convention - anyone else?

starkserious · Post by **starkserious** » March 4th, 2008, 11:07 pm

I went to my Caucus here in Tarrytown and the line for Obama was 3x longer then Hillary's. They even had to throw this woman out of the gym who was harrassing people on the Obama side. It was weird!. But what I witnessed was a bunch of well off white people voting for Obama. These are some of the people who voted Bush into office.

On 590 AM they reported that Williamson County, large numbers of voted in the Dem. camp....Go figure! Williamson County is very republican. I not sure I buy that B.S. on Rush and other morons trying to influence conservatives to vote for Hillary because they can beat her like step child. They are afraid of Obama.

Roy Janik · Post by **Roy Janik** » March 4th, 2008, 11:14 pm

Williamson County and Travis County are both clearly going to Obama, if you look at the county results on CNN. Statewide, right now, Clinton has the lead, albeit slightly.

Whatever happens, it looks like Obama and Clinton will continue to slug it out over the next month. Blah. Bad for Democrats.