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Back from the Trenches
Feb. 5th, 2008 09:30 pmCaucus successful. In large part because my location got moved from Liberty Hall to the fairgrounds (and used the big barn. Some horse trading going on tonight). Thus, unlike the other locations in town, we fit. Parking only worked because people used the grassy bits. Which due to the weather, meant several got stuck in the mud. While we weren't stuck, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lawnchair and I just gave up and walked home, as we're to impatient to wait for the traffic to clear. We'll fetch the car tomorrow.
We got there around 6:30, and into the building after a 2 minute wait. The main area was partitioned off with cattle guards, and the lines wrapped around. We stood. We slowly moved, then realized that the line would wrap back around.
Finally, someone got smart, and allowed people with filled out change of registrations in (we'd printed off and filled in ours before leaving the house).
Stood around. Saw people organizing around cards that said 25 (in the Obama half of the corral). Tried to get in a 25. I then got my own card, and organized my own 25 (putting my Navy training to use). After waiting (and my 25 growing and shrinking), everyone finally got in.
They then counted the little pieces of paper we contributed as we came in while introducing our Douglas county elected Dems (and the new AG, who is from Lawrence). Then 3 minute speeches from each of the campaigns, including from the Kucinich and Edwards people. We partitioned again, and they counted the Edwards, Kucinich, Clinton and undecided/Gravel folks. As 3/4 of the people were in the Obama camp, they counted us by subtracting the others from the total. Thus, my 25 was a wasted. Reorganizing since only Clinton and Obama got 15% (though the Kucinich camp was larger than the Edwards camp). Recounted, then out. Obama got 9 out of 11 delegates to the state convention.
Checking the web, Obama got over half of the reps in Kansas. Favored grandson status and all that.
lawnchair and I just gave up and walked home, as we're to impatient to wait for the traffic to clear. We'll fetch the car tomorrow.We got there around 6:30, and into the building after a 2 minute wait. The main area was partitioned off with cattle guards, and the lines wrapped around. We stood. We slowly moved, then realized that the line would wrap back around.
Finally, someone got smart, and allowed people with filled out change of registrations in (we'd printed off and filled in ours before leaving the house).
Stood around. Saw people organizing around cards that said 25 (in the Obama half of the corral). Tried to get in a 25. I then got my own card, and organized my own 25 (putting my Navy training to use). After waiting (and my 25 growing and shrinking), everyone finally got in.
They then counted the little pieces of paper we contributed as we came in while introducing our Douglas county elected Dems (and the new AG, who is from Lawrence). Then 3 minute speeches from each of the campaigns, including from the Kucinich and Edwards people. We partitioned again, and they counted the Edwards, Kucinich, Clinton and undecided/Gravel folks. As 3/4 of the people were in the Obama camp, they counted us by subtracting the others from the total. Thus, my 25 was a wasted. Reorganizing since only Clinton and Obama got 15% (though the Kucinich camp was larger than the Edwards camp). Recounted, then out. Obama got 9 out of 11 delegates to the state convention.
Checking the web, Obama got over half of the reps in Kansas. Favored grandson status and all that.
