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	<title>Comments on: Caucusing in Travis County Sucks Balls</title>
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		<title>By: Pat</title>
		<link>http://urbangrounds.com/2008/03/caucusing-sucks-balls/#comment-133338</link>
		<dc:creator>Pat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s called participatory democracy. Smarter people than you woke up earlier and already got that worm.  Get educated, get involved, change the system.  Whining gets you squat.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s called participatory democracy. Smarter people than you woke up earlier and already got that worm.  Get educated, get involved, change the system.  Whining gets you squat.</p>
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		<title>By: Robbie Cooper</title>
		<link>http://urbangrounds.com/2008/03/caucusing-sucks-balls/#comment-133335</link>
		<dc:creator>Robbie Cooper</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I assumed it was done this way in all Texas counties.

Precinct conventions select delegates to the county conventions, which select delegates to the state conventions, which then select delegates to the national conventions.

Because of my precinct&#039;s shenanigans, I have no chance of being selected to either the state or national convention.

More &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.keyetv.com/content/news/politics/story.aspx?content_id=5009e72f-dd1a-4d2a-b440-192786319380&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:

&lt;blockquote&gt;For the GOP, it&#039;s simpler. The precinct conventions will not serve as a presidential caucus. They will only serve to choose delegates to the conventions. So, if you&#039;re looking to go to the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis in the first week of September as a GOP delegate from Texas, this is where you have to start (8 p.m., Tues. Mar. 4, at your polling place). On the GOP side, if you want to have as much impact on the Texas vote for the party&#039;s nominee, all you have to do is vote in the primary.

On the Republican side, Texas will send 140 delegates to the Republican National Convention to participate in the nomination process for president. They will be chosen as follows: 96 delegates will be chosen according to the vote in each congressional district by virtue of the ballot breakdown; 41 at-large delegates will be chosen on the basis of the statewide vote; three delegates are reserved for the RNC representatives and the state party chair. Each Texas congressional district will select three delegates.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

How does your precinct decide who gets to go to the state convention?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I assumed it was done this way in all Texas counties.</p>
<p>Precinct conventions select delegates to the county conventions, which select delegates to the state conventions, which then select delegates to the national conventions.</p>
<p>Because of my precinct&#8217;s shenanigans, I have no chance of being selected to either the state or national convention.</p>
<p>More <a href="http://www.keyetv.com/content/news/politics/story.aspx?content_id=5009e72f-dd1a-4d2a-b440-192786319380" rel="nofollow">here</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>For the GOP, it&#8217;s simpler. The precinct conventions will not serve as a presidential caucus. They will only serve to choose delegates to the conventions. So, if you&#8217;re looking to go to the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis in the first week of September as a GOP delegate from Texas, this is where you have to start (8 p.m., Tues. Mar. 4, at your polling place). On the GOP side, if you want to have as much impact on the Texas vote for the party&#8217;s nominee, all you have to do is vote in the primary.</p>
<p>On the Republican side, Texas will send 140 delegates to the Republican National Convention to participate in the nomination process for president. They will be chosen as follows: 96 delegates will be chosen according to the vote in each congressional district by virtue of the ballot breakdown; 41 at-large delegates will be chosen on the basis of the statewide vote; three delegates are reserved for the RNC representatives and the state party chair. Each Texas congressional district will select three delegates.</p></blockquote>
<p>How does your precinct decide who gets to go to the state convention?</p>
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		<title>By: no2liberals</title>
		<link>http://urbangrounds.com/2008/03/caucusing-sucks-balls/#comment-133331</link>
		<dc:creator>no2liberals</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Robbie, that must be a Travis County procedure, as I chatted with my precinct reps for several minutes when I went in to vote, and no mention of a caucus was made, and no documents were on the table, other than ballots, or were any offered to me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Robbie, that must be a Travis County procedure, as I chatted with my precinct reps for several minutes when I went in to vote, and no mention of a caucus was made, and no documents were on the table, other than ballots, or were any offered to me.</p>
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		<title>By: dianne</title>
		<link>http://urbangrounds.com/2008/03/caucusing-sucks-balls/#comment-133324</link>
		<dc:creator>dianne</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You should file a complaint with the Election Board just for GP.

&lt;font color=&quot;red&quot;&gt;[Editor --- I&#039;m considering it. However, it sounds like Hillary&#039;s campaign has much, much &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/election/entries/2008/03/05/clinton_considers_legal_action_over_caucuses.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;better grounds&lt;/a&gt; for a complaint (and possible lawsuit). Obamamaniacs are a bunch of kool-aid drinking fanatics. 

&lt;blockquote&gt;Allegations reported by the Dallas Morning News include Clinton voters being locked out of caucuses and Barack Obama supporters illegally obtaining caucus packets.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Nobody who has witnessed Obamania! should be surprised by this. It&#039;s a true mob-mentality when they start gathering en mass.]&lt;./font&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You should file a complaint with the Election Board just for GP.</p>
<p><font color="red">[Editor --- I'm considering it. However, it sounds like Hillary's campaign has much, much <a href="http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/election/entries/2008/03/05/clinton_considers_legal_action_over_caucuses.html" rel="nofollow">better grounds</a> for a complaint (and possible lawsuit). Obamamaniacs are a bunch of kool-aid drinking fanatics. </p>
<blockquote><p>Allegations reported by the Dallas Morning News include Clinton voters being locked out of caucuses and Barack Obama supporters illegally obtaining caucus packets.</p></blockquote>
<p>Nobody who has witnessed Obamania! should be surprised by this. It's a true mob-mentality when they start gathering en mass.]< ./font></font></p>
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		<title>By: Robbie Cooper</title>
		<link>http://urbangrounds.com/2008/03/caucusing-sucks-balls/#comment-133320</link>
		<dc:creator>Robbie Cooper</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Republican Caucus ticket that I was handed when I voted in the primary begs to differ.

The GOP system doesn&#039;t allot any &lt;em&gt;presidential &lt;/em&gt;delegates through the caucus system, unlike the Democrats, but the Republicans still caucus to elect county party officials.

Which is what we were there to do. And what we were disenfranchised from doing by the Democratic caucus officials at our precinct.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Republican Caucus ticket that I was handed when I voted in the primary begs to differ.</p>
<p>The GOP system doesn&#8217;t allot any <em>presidential </em>delegates through the caucus system, unlike the Democrats, but the Republicans still caucus to elect county party officials.</p>
<p>Which is what we were there to do. And what we were disenfranchised from doing by the Democratic caucus officials at our precinct.</p>
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		<title>By: no2liberals</title>
		<link>http://urbangrounds.com/2008/03/caucusing-sucks-balls/#comment-133309</link>
		<dc:creator>no2liberals</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, Jim, that&#039;s what I thought, too.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, Jim, that&#8217;s what I thought, too.</p>
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		<title>By: Jim Howard</title>
		<link>http://urbangrounds.com/2008/03/caucusing-sucks-balls/#comment-133308</link>
		<dc:creator>Jim Howard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Republicans don&#039;t caucus in Texas.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Republicans don&#8217;t caucus in Texas.</p>
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