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First Alignment
Obama 86
Edwards 46
Clinton 37
Richardson 2
Viability 26
After Realignment
Obama 125
Clinton 42
Delegates Elected
Obama 24
Clinton 8
**Update**
I am home now and didn't have time to post this at the convention. With a few minutes left during realignment, the Edwards group had 24 people, 2 shy of viability. They couldn't get 2 more people and the their group disbanded. Of those 24, 2 went to Clinton and 22 went to Obama. The Clinton group wasn't too happy with the way the Edwards group broke. Some Clinton supporters were calling some Obama supporters vultures for trying to persuade Edwards people to come to Obama.
It was interesting picking the delegates from the Obama group. There were around 50 people that wanted to be delegates and only 24 spots. Since so many of the Edwards group came over to Obama, 3 of the delegates were given to Edwards supporters. Then the Obama group elected 1 person from each precinct. The larger precincts got 2 people. We then counted up and we had 1 delegate too many. We called everyone together and it happened that just 1 delegate had left, so they were crossed off the list.
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Marshall County Convention: Presidential Preferrence Groups
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Were there really not 26 Edwards delegates who wanted to stay in their own group?
I am surprised that they realigned, since they were comfortably above the viability threshold.
Or am I missing something?
They had 24 people that wanted to stay and they couldn't get those 2 others they needed to stay viable.
Edwards was viable in Polk. Obama had the same situation with delegates, far more wanted to be dels than what was there. It somehow worked out.
Obama had a bit over 50% of delegates in Polk.
I was there 8-4:30. Long day.
That's great news from original home. We had our senate district convention in St. Paul last weekend and it's pretty good up to the north I'll just say. Glad to hear Obama took a huge majority.
In Warren county Obama ended up with 20 of the county's 38 delegates. Clinton got 12 and the Edwards "king makers" manages to hold on to get a viable group of Uncommitted with 6 delegates.
The bigger story for me as a first time convention goer was the disorganization. We didn't get the alternates seated until 11:45 because there was major confusion over whether delegates were bound to declare a prefrence as they came out of the princint caucus. It didn't really phase me much, but there were some who were -very- upset about wasting people's time.
Edwards was perhaps viable at Pocahontas, too, but he got no delegates. At sign-in time Edwards appeared to have 36% of the votes, but the delegates could not see the point of sticking with their January preferences. A discussion held during realignment time was attended by enuf Edwards delegates that they were viable if local leadership had argued for it and held them together. No such leader emerged.
I put the whole story in a diary at Bleeding Heartland
Complaints from the Hillary people are crazy. I've heard from several County conventions that they acted like spoiled sports because they could not get any more delegates.
Iowans rejected Hillary because her staffers were insufferable and arrogant.
At County conventions many of her supporters proved to be as well.
Clinton staffers where pretty abraisive, I like Hillary, but I am really turned off by some of her supporters
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