Texas lets me have it both ways - voted for Clark, caucused for Kerry...

...so I guess I'm OK. :D

My first caucus - great seeing a (surprising) 25 or so very energized Dems.

Did not get selected as a delegate to the Senatorial convention, but I'm going anyway. They say I can cover platform resolutions, report back, do everything but vote. So I'm there! (It's in Houston, so por que no?)

State convention is also here in June, so woo-hoo!

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Primary had both Reps and Dems in the same room. I got there about 1/2 hour before the polls closed and it was about 5-1 Dems voting.

The tally sheet outside showed 104 Reps voted through 5PM and 72 Dems. Sounds good until you realize that it was one Rep precinct and three Dem precincts voting at that location.

signed in Kerry at the Pct Convention.

Could you explain how you voted for Clark and caucused for Kerry?

First there's the black box voting: for President, down-ticket national primaries (just representatives for us - no senators this year), local office primaries, and referenda.

Then, after the polls close you go back to your precinct location and as a precinct caucus you select delegates to the senatorial convention. In this process, you select which candidate you want your delegate(s) to represent. For our small precinct, it was 6 for Kerry, 1 for Kucinich. So our one delegate will be a Kerry delegate.

Weird, huh?

Weird, yes. Do those votes get counted? What if they conflict with the caucus results?

One group of delegates to Boston were selected by primary voting.

Another group will be selected through the convention process that begins at the precinct level and proceeds through county/district to the state.

No one said it had to make sense.

Figured I'd caucus for Clark as long as possible, hoping to pool enough of us together to send a few to Boston as Kerry delegates.

The first step was pretty easy.

Pct xxxx, Bexar County:
Caucus results: Clark 2 100%.
Delegates: Clark 2.

considering how Bush will likely win there just because he plays off his Texas image so much and after all that Tom DeLay has done to destroy democracy in your state they have to do something to you "bed wetting liberals" don't get pissed and revolt.

Rp

Voted for Dean and caucused for Kerry. Our precinct is heavily Repug, but we had almost as many voters. Our group is energized, too!

We all hate Bush.

We hate Goodhair.

And we're angry about being basically disenfranchised. We live in SW Austin, but both US Congress and State Senate are San Antonio districts.

Our precinct chair was shocked that so many people showed up. Usually there are 3 or 4, not 10.