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I caucused for my first time today. The place: an elementary school in a fairly WASPy North Seattle neighborhood, in a lunchroom that couldn't pack in half of the attendees. The director of activities: a very large woman with a cheap microphone, who at one point said something like, "I know you generally don't pay attention to the fat blonde girl, but you'll have to listen up." After signing in and offering our first-born up to Obama, we stood around for half an hour while the large woman explained what we had to do. The various precincts moved to other parts of the school, while ours and one other stayed in the lunchroom. During this activity the large woman repeated to the precinct leaders that there were sign-in sheets near her on the stage if they needed more, and at one point somebody covertly grabbed the whole stack, prompting the large woman to say in a very accusatory tone, "I'm not gonna name any names but the person had an Obama sticker on." Shortly thereafter we separated into our camps, and it was instantly clear that the majority was there for Obama. After several counts, a few speeches failing to sway, and some people declaring their candidate of choice on paper because they didn't realize they were supposed to prior to the speeches, the tally ended up in the neighborhood of: 86 for Obama, 15 for Hillary, and 3 undecided. This resulted in 6 delegates for Obama and 1 for Hillary. The seven delegates were chosen by vote after I left.

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