visiting www.homedepot.com and clicking on the Olympic rings/ "It's time to turn clicks into gold" banner near the bottom of the page. For every click, Home Depot will donate $1 to Team USA on your behalf. The ticker shows that over $670,000 has been raised so far.
And now that HD has given Team USA a dollar for you, I challenge you to donate a matching dollar to the campaign!
I like the new neighbor to neighbor toolkit. It is easier to use and more intuitive than other lists I am working right now. I had to give back my list because it will expire while we are on vacation, but will jump back in with both feet once I return home.
I have decided to combine the Obama canvass with a door-to-door voter registration drive. There are under 300 registered voters in my precinct, and an apartment complex with that many units alone.
I may ask for help but for right now I plan to walk the precinct door to door between now and the state primary... which should make a good GOTV list with some new names on it for November.
Wish me luck
Washington State uses a four tiered caucus system... local precincts, a county caucus, meeting by legislative district and finally a state convention at which the "real" delegates to the national convention are chosen.
I don't envy the media as they seek to sort out today's results.
After watching the campaign from afar for many months, it was finally my turn to act. I attended caucuses today at Geiger Elementary in Tacoma, WA.
There were a lot of Hillary signs all over the auditorium walls and campaign stickers were available for those who supported Senator Clinton... a few Obama supporters had signs but probably had the same problem I did when trying to order online-- Super Tuesday seems to have emptied the stockroom of promotional campaign items.
No matter... signs are just signs and the Obama supporters seemed to have the numbers in each of the three precincts.
28-403 appeared to be the largest group, with nearly 200 in attendance and meeting to determine the affiliation of 19 delegates at the next level. The first count for 28-403 translated to a preliminary delegate distribution of 10 for Obama, 7 for Clinton and 2 undecided. As I left both groups were trying to sway those who arrived undecided or supporting Edwards. Every delegate will count and there were intense and earnest conversations going on throughout the room.
28-404 was doing their work in the library... and I apologize for not having a result to share here.
My own group was 28-405. 48 of us met to determine 6 delegates to the next level. Our first tally was 27 voters for Obama, 19 for Clinton and 2 undecided, which split our 6 delegates 3.375, 2.375 and 0.25. The tiebreaker rules awarded the remaining delegate to the candidate with the highest fraction. So we "started" at 3 delegates for Barack and 2 for Hillary... and at 0.375 each the tiebreaker was deadlocked.
We then broke into groups and tried to change the minds of the undecided voters and the Clinton voters. A few minds were changed and we ended up with a delegate split of 4 for Obama and 2 for Clinton.
