Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Caucusing in Colorado


So Colorado is a caucus state. That means that instead of going to the polls and voting like you would in an election, you go to a neighborhood type meeting and vote within that meeting. Our precinct (fancy name for political neighborhood), took a straw poll and these were the results: 3 for Huckabee, 2 for McCain and 40 for Romney. Next step in a caucus is to elect delegates to the county Republican convention; the delegates go to the county convention and "should" vote along the lines of the precinct's majority; from there, delegates get elected to the state convention and so on and so on until the national convention.


Anyway, to make a long story short, I was elected a delegate from our precinct to go to the county convention on March 1st. Hmm, maybe there's more to life than being an actuary-Super Dad.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

YEAH Mike!!!!!!!!!!!

Brent and April said...

GO MITT

Linnea said...

How cool!

Brent and April said...

what happens now that mitt dropped out?

Michael Clark said...

The one thing about the Colorado caucuses is that the delegates that are sent to the national convention are unpledged "super delegates", meaning that they can vote for anyone regardless of what the popular vote says. They essentially become deal makers if it comes to that.

Michael Clark said...

Here's a good article explaining what unpledged delegates are:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/us/politics/10superdelegates.html?_r=1&ref=politics&oref=slogin