Today I had the great honoring of attending and participating in my first caucus here in Seattle, Washington. My precinct was 43-2115, and here is how it went, along with some photos.
At around 12:50, myself and two of my friends headed out to our caucus location, which was conveniently located two blocks from my dorm. As you will see in the pictures, there was a huge majority of Obama supporters. The first step was getting a registration form so I could change my voting address to my current address at the dorms (so that I could caucus there). After passing around my pen and searching high and low for forms, all three of us successfully updated our address, and proceeded into the packed (and very hot) caucus room for our precinct, 43-2115 (two other precincts shared the room aswell, which made it loud, crowded, and hot). The first order of business was everyone had to sign in, and indicate which candidate they were voting for. After we recited the pledge of allegiance (to a flag that was located across the street on top of a building, as there was not one in the room), we rearranged ourselves based on which candidate we wanted, or if we were undecided. I was confused at first and thought this was some kind of special “Obama only” caucus, because I did not see any Hillary supporters until after we rearranged ourselves. After tallying the votes, it was announced that there 8 delegates for Obama, 2 for Hillary (for the 6 Hillary supporters from our precinct), and 2 undecided. Next, supporters of each candidate had 1 minute to come up with a speech to convince the undecided voters to vote for our candidate (because they would be wasting their time if they did not choose a candidate), and then have one person deliver that speech. After hearing both of the speeches, the undecided had 10 minutes to decide who they were going to change their votes to. It only took about 5 minutes for them to change their delegates to Obama! That gave Obama a commanding 10-2 advantage to win the caucus! And he has gone on to win all the caucusing tonight, Washington, Nebraska, Lousiana, and the Virgin Islands! Awesome job to all the Obama supporters who came out today!
Here are some pictures from the caucus!

-J

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