Thursday, January 03, 2008

Live Blogging Cacus shown on CSPAN

I'm liveblogging the caucus coverage being shown on CSPAN. I'll liveblog the results when this is over.

605: they are going through the nitty gritty details about electing precinct captains. We'll get to the good stuff in a moment...

No wonder nobody goes to these things. Sausage making at it's finest.

612: 323 people are attending the caucus. By my math, that means 49 people are needed for viability. They are breaking up into their groups now.

This is my second caucus I've watched, and it seems to go smoother that four years ago...

620: They are showing some good discussion going between a Dodd and Richardson discussion. The gal from the Richardson campaign is doing a good job of talking about his issues, and building on common traits with the other participants. Kudos to Barbara, I think she said her name was.

623: Obama looks to be dominant here. I like the Obama guy talking about experience, mentioning Obama's line about Rumsfeld having strong experience.

637: dodd, kucinich, biden, and richardson are not currently viable. 15 minutes to realign and get viability. Their number for what constitutes 15% is 57, seems off to me. Richardson is trying hard to hit viability...

643: it's turning into a high school spoting event, with difeerent groups breaking into cheers...

647: I think I'd be sick of counting by this point. Learning skills like counting off really help in adult life. Who knew?

650: I think the only thing more boring than watching this would be to read someone liveblogging the TV coverage of the event. Thanks for staying with me...

654: just waiting for the Obama people (I think) to finish their count...

655: Someone a little unclear of the concept, wearing a Ron Paul shirt to a Democratic Caucus.

657: Final Count for this caucus -- 186 obama 116 edwards 74 clinton

700: Now the groups select their delegates to the county convention. Obama gets one delegate, edwards gets 2, and clinton 1.

And, with this, I switch over to election results...

2 comments:

Jason The said...

Man, you got better numbers than CNN.

Bob said...

But I was reporting just one caucus.

However, I'm using "Better numbers than CNN" in my promos from now on.

:)

-Bob