Obama wins close race, beats Clinton in Guam

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.

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Texas Caucus Results Due March 29

Curious whether Barack Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton won Texas' Democratic caucuses March 4? The official results won't be available until March 29.

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Obama Wins in Wyoming, Adds 7 Delegates

Sen. Barack Obama captured the Wyoming Democratic caucuses Saturday, seizing a bit of momentum in the close, hard-fought race with rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for the party's presidential nomination.

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Obama Leads Clinton in Wyoming Caucuses

Barack Obama led rival Hillary Rodham Clinton in voting returns Saturday as Democrats crowded caucuses in Wyoming, the latest contest in the candidates' close, hard-fought race for the party's presidential nomination.

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Clinton Wins N.M. Caucus Vote

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton finally won the popular vote in New Mexico's Democratic caucus and picked up one extra delegate Thursday, nine days after Super Tuesday voting ended.

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Obama Defeats Clinton in Maine Caucuses

Barack Obama defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton in Maine presidential caucuses Sunday, grabbing a majority of delegates as the state's Democrats overlooked the snowy weather and turned out in heavy numbers for municipal gatherings.

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N.M. Democrats Get Apologies, No Winner

Three days after New Mexico voted, Democratic officials offer apologies and finger-pointing — but have no winner. Hillary Rodham Clinton holds a slight lead, but the state is still counting 17,000 provisional ballots given to voters because of long lines and a shortage of ballots.

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Romney Wins Maine Caucuses

Mitt Romney coasted to a win in presidential preference voting by Maine Republicans on Saturday, claiming his third victory in a caucus state and fourth overall.

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Ron Paul's Prospects Look Up in Maine

Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul has a couple of things going for him at this weekend's Republican caucuses: a band of highly motivated supporters and a natural appeal to Maine's like-minded independents.

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Romney Wins Wyoming Caucuses

Mitt Romney captured his first win of the Republican presidential race on Saturday, prevailing in Wyoming caucuses for a much-needed boost to his candidacy three days before the New Hampshire primary.

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Correction: Caucus Numbers Story

In a Jan. 2 story about the Iowa caucuses, The Associated Press erroneously reported that 41 percent of Democrats waited until the final three days of the 2004 campaign to choose their candidates. The correct percentage is 21.

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Analysis: Numbers Tell Tale in Iowa

Who's going to win Iowa's caucuses? We don't have that answer for you just yet, but here's a by-the-numbers look at the candidates and their wildly unpredictable campaigns.

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Basic Facts on the Iowa Caucuses

Some questions and answers about the Iowa caucuses this Thursday:

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Edwards, Obama vie: same towns, same voters

WATERLOO, Iowa - Vote for John Edwards or Barack Obama? Obama or Edwards?

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Wyoming GOP Begins Choosing Delegates

The nation's presidential delegate selection process begins this week in Wyoming, where Republicans are choosing several people to attend county conventions next month where the national delegates will be chosen.

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Tancredo: Abolish Race-Based Caucuses

White House hopeful Tom Tancredo said Thursday the existence of the Congressional Black Caucus and other race-based groups of lawmakers amount to segregation and should be abolished.

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Tough Russian tactics against small Islamist segments and disgruntled tribes in the Caucuses have created an increasingly violent backlash. POlice and state authorities are being killed in increasing numbers and terror attacks are increasing dramatically.

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In an unprecedented initiative, the leaders of four prominent groups in Congress — the Progressive Caucus, the Black Caucus, the Hispanic Caucus and the Asian Pacific American Caucus — have sent a joint letters to President Obama and the Democratic leadership of the House a …

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Proposal for 2012 PRIMARIES (Final)

From December 2007 to March 2008, I wrote various drafts of a proposal on how our political parties -- starting in 2012 -- might adopt primary election procedures that would better serve our country in selecting presidential candidates.

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Did Obama's ACORN Steal Dem Nomination from Hillary?

As new scandals erupt daily concerning the sleazy attempts of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) to steal the upcoming Presidential election, it is worth looking to the not-so-distant past and investigate the role that ACORN played in the defeat of Sena …

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Now, as Republicans gather in St. Paul, Minn., to formally pick McCain as their presidential nominee, Paul supporters are fuming over a nasty battle that resulted in two sets of Nevada delegates vying to be seated at the convention.

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What do Ally, Shala, Sarah, John, Janet, Denise, Darrell, Dawne, Henry, Liz (who doesn't have a home page yet), Lucy and Pam (yours truly) all have in common? They are all blogging at www.everydaycitizen.com from Denver!

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Barack Obama's campaign will call next week for the creation of a new commission to revise the rules for selecting a presidential nominee in 2012 with a goal of reducing the power of superdelegates, whose role became a major point of contention during the long battle between Obam …

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Hillary Clinton's senior campaign strategist on Sunday defended as true private remarks made by the senator in which she blamed her electoral defeats on a Democratic activist base with whom she has disagreed.

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The Texas Democratic Party has received reports of unknown persons calling and e-mailing delegates to incorrectly inform them their county and senate district conventions have been cancelled, said party spokesman Hector Nieto.

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ABC News' Teddy Davis reports: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., saw his delegate lead over Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., grow by 10 on Saturday when Iowa Democrats took the second step in picking national convention delegates.

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Once upon a time, I thought very little about the super powers of my party's Superdelegates. How I long for those days! Now I get steamed every time I'm reminded that the party aristocracy may overturn the likely plebeian majority for Obama.

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While the Democrats' original goal of using precinct conventions to increase party activism was laudable, last week's debacle should leave no doubt that this primary-caucus combination is unworkable.

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"He has a million little donors. He has brought many, many Republicans and Independents to the brink of re-thinking their relationship with the Democratic party. And he has won the majority of primaries and caucuses and has a majority of the delegates and popular vote.

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Hillary Clinton has finally broken her losing streak and sent a clear message to Obama: I'm not getting out. For the Illinois senator, the meaning of the primaries is clear — he has to get tough. Hillary can still win this nomination.

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Sen. Barack Obama took the lead over rival Hillary Rodham Clinton in early returns as Democrats deluged caucuses in Wyoming Saturday, straining the ability of party officials to accommodate crowds.

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Obama leads Clinton in Wyoming With slightly more than half of the counties reporting, the Illinois senator is coming out ahead. Voter turnout exceeds expectations in the sparsely populated state.

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Do the Right Thing: Seat the Florida Delegates

Let's talk about "disenfranchisement." The New York Times' election blogger/columnist, Matt Bai, has a piece in "The Caucus" blog about the rapidly heating up argument over re-visiting the Democratic National Committee's decision to strip Florida and Michigan of their delegates a …

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Let's first try to put ourselves in an undecided Texan voter's shoes. This is how I'd start thinking about it - Texas is many miles from Washington DC and Texans like to remind other Americans that with a majority vote, Texas can still secede from the union.

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he Texas Democratic Party warned Thursday that election night caucuses scheduled for next Tuesday could be delayed or disrupted after aides to Hillary Clinton threatened to sue over the party's complicated delegate selection process.

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Super Delegates

At this point, Obama can't win without the Super-Delegates either, which the media doesn't seem to be addressing.

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In the United States all adults are qualified players. We are free to play — to run, work, contribute and vote; or to sit on the bench or bleachers, commenting freely as we watch. We can even make the rules for the next match four years from now if we get organized.

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Imagine the Minnesota DFL Party adopting a rule that no people of color could participate in their caucuses, or the Republican Party adopting one barring women from attending.

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We've been waiting for y'all.

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Key Point: Senator Obama can win Texas if he can hold his own on March 4 with the 126 Delegates that will be allocated based on the votes in Texas' 31 Senate Districts, and then do well (as he has in the past) with the 67 delegates in the caucus-system that will fully be realized …

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The writer makes a valiant attempt to explain our inexplicable primary process to Canadian readers.

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