Barack Obama defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton by seven votes in the Guam Democratic presidential caucuses Saturday. The count of more than 4,500 ballots took all night. Neither candidate campaigned in the U.S. island territory in person, but both did long-distance media interviews and bought campaign ads for the caucuses.
Results of the count completed Sunday morning Guam time show delegates pledged to Obama with 2,264 votes to 2,257 for Clinton’s slate. That means they’ll split the pledged delegate votes. Obama’s slate won in 14 of 21 districts. Eight pledged delegates will attend the convention, each with one-half vote.
U.S. citizens on the island, however, have no vote in the November election. The territory also sends five superdelegates to the National Convention in August in Denver. Voters picked two of the superdelegates, electing uncommitted Pilar Lujan party chairman and Jaime Paulina vice chairman. Paulina ran as an Obama supporter. One other existing superdelegate has favored Clinton and the votes of the other two have not been declared.
All-day voting Saturday had people lining up at 21 caucus sites around the U.S. territorial island, which has unexpected importance in a historic Democratic race in which every delegate matters.
There was no direct presidential vote, but each candidate had a slate of supporters on the ballot…
I hope you’re right about Obama. I wanted to steer you to an article you can read on Saturday night if you just click on opinion. It pertains to a column written by Kristof at the NYTimes. It’s about our jail in Guantanamo Bay. I didn’t think I could be anymore shocked about what I read about our jail for so-called terrorist. You want to talk about Cheney and Bush, well I hope the outrage from this article and the coming book about this horrible jail will finally shine a spotlight on the two of them that will finally stop them. They have done deeds that should have gotten them both impeached years ago. What will Congresses excuse be this time?