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Saturday, February 9, 2008

Obamarama at Madrona Elementary

posted by on February 9 at 16:40 PM

It was clear which way the hurricane was blowing in the Central District just standing in line. A desperate-sounding Clinton volunteer tried to pass out handbills but wasn’t having much luck. Meanwhile, Obama volunteers passed out hundreds of stickers; even the kids were in on the campaigning.

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Photos by Michael Holden.

At 1:15 PM, Tim Killian told the “record turnout” crowd that things would be delayed while a line that still wrapped around two sides of the block worked its way inside.

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A few minutes later, a woman’s voice over the loudspeaker asked for everyone’s attention: “We have way over the number of people who can safely be in the school.” Cheering drowned out the rest of her announcement.

The coordinator of my precinct, 37-1885, after tallying the votes looked up and said, “This is an overwhelming defeat.” Here’s how it broke down: 77 for Obama, 13 for Clinton, and 2 undecided. Obama won four delegates and Clinton got one. The results were similar in the neighboring precinct.

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I hung out for a while and checked on several other precinct meetings. Every person I talked to said theirs also had awarded Clinton only one delegate and Obama took the rest.

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1

I just got done caucusing with the 43-2549 precinct, we awarded Obama 6 delegates and Clinton 3, Another precinct 43-2544 was still counting when I left looking like Obama 6 or 7 and Clinton 1 or 2 delegates, another 3022 awarded Obama 6 and Clinton 2......i am not sure of 1774.....

Posted by brad | February 9, 2008 4:48 PM
2

It was a total sweatbox in that school. So many people were stuffed in there.
6 for Obama and 2 for Clinton in our precinct.

Posted by gfrancie | February 9, 2008 4:56 PM
3

Geez. Poor Clintonistas. I figured she'd at least win some suburban/rural precincts, but I haven't heard of a single one yet.

Posted by tsm | February 9, 2008 4:56 PM
4

The fighting 37-1885! My district as well. While people in the other districts spoke, plead and argued, ours did math.

"How many Obama supporters do we need to get one more Clinton delegate?"

"Seven?"

"Are seven of you going to change your minds?"

End of conversation.

Posted by six shooter | February 9, 2008 5:09 PM
5

There was one Kucinich nut job in our precinct too. Just wouldn't give it up.

Posted by Clint | February 9, 2008 5:14 PM
6

The Clintonistas got two of the nine delegates in my precinct, but really, it was kind of sad. They voted, crammed into a little corner, and just sat there trying to defend her vote on the war while the rest of us voted on delegates. As they needed to get four, and we needed fourteen, we took a bit longer.

Posted by Gitai | February 9, 2008 5:16 PM
7

I thought my caucus location was bad.

Posted by keshmeshi | February 9, 2008 7:31 PM
8

I caucused at the Madrona School and when the cheer erupted after hearing that there was an unsafe number of voters in the building, I felt very proud to be an American.

Posted by Seth | February 9, 2008 9:37 PM
9

37-1916 was pleased to elect 2 high school seniors as part of our 4 delegates for Obama. We had 129 people in our precinct. Obama 4-2.

Posted by Missy | February 9, 2008 11:51 PM

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