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Another interesting bit of caucus trivia (at least for Democrats):

Precinct has 3 delegates possible

4 people show up
2 for Hillary
2 for Obama

1 delegate goes to Hillary
1 delegate goes to Obama

What happens to the third delegate?

Believe it or not... the executive director of the Washington State Democrats, says to flip a coin on ties.

"Believe it or not... the executive director of the Washington State Democrats, says to flip a coin on ties."

And here comes another lenghty list of posts on how "important" it all is. Staggering.

Not too many precincts are going to have only 4 people show up this time around.

Venerable as the OED is, its etymology in this case is convoluted and unconvincing. Random House gives this:

Origin: 1755–65, Americanism; apparently first used in the name of the "Caucus Club" of colonial Boston [a pub where political meetings were held]; perhaps

Real etymologies are often polluted by folk etymologies, and I see taints of that in the OED in this case. Random House's research and analysis is a lot more convincing in this case (and simpler, a key red flag that it's a better etymology).

I'll be caucusin' for Senator Obama at the Greenwood Senior Center. This is exciting!

To be fair, Annie, the incorrect placings of Dan's caucus wouldn't be wrong if Dan actually lived where he said he did ("15th and Aloha").

Meanwhile in cartoon land, I have these questions.

Why does Gary Trudeau think young college students could name more than two Kennedys? Or that they would care to? Typical baby boomer egotism, thinking that Obama is popular with young people because they compare him to one of many Presidents whose time was before they were born. If anybody is going to be mooning over his wife's family, it needs to be one of his 50-something characters. Sorry if it makes him feel old.

And what's up with Ted Rall? Is he campaigning for Nader again?

And Fnarf's right: 43-2018 is Lowell. Go a few blocks away and you could be Stevens...

@3--yes, but what if 504 vote for hillar and 504 vote for obama. could happen. :)

Hey... Do I have to go to my "official" caucus site? Or can I just go to the one that is down the street from where I live? This whole thing is still confusing to me.

@9: Go to your official caucus site. You probably live near a precinct boundary, so it's confusing. But you need to caucus with your actual precinct--unless you've moved recently and are registered elsewhere, in which case you can choose to caucus in your old neighborhood.

Thanks! The only reason I asked is because my official site is an elementary school down the street, but I looked and it says that Victrola coffee was a site as well.... so I figured I might as well go and get some coffee too, while I'm at it. but if I'm supposed to go where I'm told, I guess I'll go there.