Guam Needs You :(

Guam is voting.

Right Now.

It's already May 3rd over there folks.  Spooky, I know.  Polls will close at 8 p.m., 6 a.m. eastern time, U.S.

There are eight pledged delegates, and five supers, at stake in this crucial but.. distant.. contest.  According to CBS news, turnout is expected to be: 3,000. The pledged delegates get a half-vote each, while the supers get a full vote, for a total of nine votes up for grabs.

Hmph.

I have no idea who is favored (nor does any journalist seem to care), but it is a caucus process, so I guess I'll predict Obama 75%.  Anyone else want to make predictions of Guam?  Please post any information you may have, and sorry for the short and rather uninformative diary.  I just thought we ought to talk about it.

Update: Full results are expected by noon eastern time. Rumor has it there are five people total counting the ballots. Based on our own poll, the internal MyDD prediction is: Barack Obama 56.4, Hillary Clinton 43.6

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24 Comments

Re: Guam Needs You :(

maybe the obama campaign wont be able to cheat in the Guam caucus.

by alright 2008-05-02 09:34PM | 0 recs
Yup, kind of hard to bus in 800

people from the mainland!

by CoyoteCreek 2008-05-03 06:05AM | 0 recs
Re: Guam Needs You :(

Caucus = Obama wins by a nauseating margin. I assume that's how it works in Guam, since that's how it works most everywhere else. Have any of us been making calls to Guam?

by sricki 2008-05-02 09:34PM | 0 recs
Results

Obama wins 61% to 36%. Just reported.

by 4justice 2008-05-03 07:40AM | 0 recs
Re: Results

I can't find that anywhere.  Can you link?

by bobbank 2008-05-03 07:49AM | 0 recs
by 4justice 2008-05-03 07:50AM | 0 recs
by bobbank 2008-05-03 07:55AM | 0 recs
ps

expected, but I am not happy about it.  Puerto Rico will more than make up for this, as well as her expected wins coming up.

by 4justice 2008-05-03 07:56AM | 0 recs
Re: Results

According to CNN, it's Obama 54, Clinton 46, with 63% reporting.

by sricki 2008-05-03 08:57AM | 0 recs
My understanding

My understanding is that it's more like a party-run primary, where you just cast ballots and leave.  I could be wrong though.

In any case: Marianas Variety endorses Hillary

http://www.mvariety.com/?module=displays tory&story_id=10696&format=html

by DaveOinSF 2008-05-02 09:35PM | 0 recs
Re: My understanding

Yeah - It's called a caucus, but people just go and cast ballots.

by politicsmatters 2008-05-03 04:08AM | 0 recs
Re: Guam Needs You :(

I have read it described as a "primary" in some places but CBS seemed pretty certain it was a "caucus".  And I don't see a turnout of 3,000 as meaning a primary in the traditional sense heh.

by bobbank 2008-05-02 09:38PM | 0 recs
Re: Guam Needs You :(

Where the hell is Guam anyway.

by lori 2008-05-02 09:40PM | 0 recs
Re: Guam Needs You :(

Guam, "Where American's Day Begins"
(tourism slogan)

That's where.

by bobbank 2008-05-02 09:43PM | 0 recs
Re: Guam Needs You :(

Floating somewhere in the Western Pacific, apparently. Not that that tells us much.

by sricki 2008-05-02 09:44PM | 0 recs
Guam Location

In paradise. A little over 3,000 miles west of Hawaii and a little over 1,000 miles south of Japan. It's north of New Zealand and east of the Phillipines.

by Zzyzzy 2008-05-03 01:46AM | 0 recs
Re: Guam Needs You :(

http://www.hillaryclinton.com/hq/guam/

Hill was all over it (so was Barack).

Check out the vid - "Hafa Adai brothers and sisters!"  Hill's gone native.

by bobbank 2008-05-02 09:42PM | 0 recs
Re: Guam Needs You :(

They call it a caucus but it's secret ballot and you can vote all day, so it's really a primary.

Guam can't vote in the general, which I imagine will play a role in the expected lower turnout.

by davisb 2008-05-02 10:04PM | 0 recs
Guam is voting

that is so cool!

When I was doing a lot of theater and someone forgot their lines or blocking (stage movement) we would say they "went to Guam".  "Excuse me, I went to Guam for a moment"...

I have no idea why, but that was what we said.  

by TeresaInPa 2008-05-02 11:13PM | 0 recs
Re: Guam Needs You :(

Hope Hillary nets them all (almost) to continue the MO.

by Sandeep 2008-05-03 01:47AM | 0 recs
First results in:

11:10 p.m. Guam - The official results for the primary election for the Democratic Party have been processed.

Senator Barack Obama took Ordot's delegates with a vote over 37 to 18, While Clinton won Maina 22 to 19. Check back for full updates and results as they come in.

I don't really know what that means.

by bobbank 2008-05-03 05:24AM | 0 recs
FYI
In 2004 Ordot went for Bush 61/38
Maina went 62/37
by DaveOinSF 2008-05-03 06:07AM | 0 recs
Update

Guam has 8 pledged delegates, but they each get half a vote.  The 5 superdelegates each get a full vote.  So the total is nine.

Wierd.

by bobbank 2008-05-03 05:27AM | 0 recs
Re: Guam Needs You :(

http://www.pacificnewscenter.com/default .asp?sourceid=&smenu=161&twindow Default&mad=No&sdetail=24095&am p;wpage=1&skeyword&sidate=& ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restat us=&reoption=&retype=&repmin &repmax&rebed=&rebath=& ;subname=&pform=&sc=1718&hn= pacificnewscenter&he=.com

"With 11 out of 19 precincts reporting, Senator Barack Obama is leading Senator Hillary Clinton by 6 percentage points. The total preference count so far is Obama with 768 to Clinton's 680."

by bobbank 2008-05-03 07:59AM | 0 recs

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