In 2004, I went to the caucus and it was a zoo, with far more people than expected. In my precinct alone, over a dozen people showed up.
Today, in my Fremont precinct, 104 people voted.
It was like that in the other half-dozen precincts in our building, too. The turnout was astonishing. Anecdotally, most of the people I talked with had never been to a caucus before. Aside from the neighbor who’s had a Ron Paul yard sign up for nearly a year (I assume he was at the Republican caucus), I’m not sure who could have even been left in our nine-square-block precinct that wasn’t at the Democratic caucus. Apparently it’s been like that all over the city.
At least in Fremont, we overwhelmingly voted for Obama (84 of 104 in our precinct, to 11 for Clinton). In each precinct, Obama was getting four, five, or six delegates to one for Clinton. If that’s at all representative, it’s a landslide of epic proportions for Obama.
One more thing: did anyone else notice that when you went to the wa-democrats.com (as opposed to .org) web site today, as many folks looking for caucus sites undoubtably did, it took you to the web page of the Washington State Republican Party? What kind of shit is that?
wa-democrats.com (as opposed to .org) takes you to the Republican Party’s website? Just like voting for Gore in Florida was a vote for Bush in 2000…. hmmmm.
That’s pretty clever by the Rs. It reminds me of the time in 6th grade I was researching Austrailia, so I went to http://www.austrailia.com, and found myself looking at some pretty raunchy porn. Turns out Austrailia is actually spelled Australia (who knew?). Moral is, republicans are pornographers.
wa-democrats.com is registered at a mail receiving address by:
Dover’s Politics
Rob (Webmaster)
1001 Cooper Pt. Rd. SW, Suite 140-191
Olympia, WA 98502
US
Email: webmaster@doverspolitics.com
Domain Name: wa-democrats.com
Created on…………..: Mon, Jul 24, 2000
Expires on…………..: Thu, Jul 24, 2008
Record last updated on..: Wed, Oct 31, 2007
It’s probably available for a fee unless this was always a Republican front organization.
Gosh! Now that buying up a domain name that works against Dems has happened, they all of a sudden find religion on the issue. But heretofore, it was all fun and games, good for a hearty yuck, when the shoe was on the other foot (ACVR domain names).
The Piper
“One more thing: did anyone else notice that when you went to the wa-democrats.com (as opposed to .org) web site today, as many folks looking for caucus sites undoubtably did, it took you to the web page of the Washington State Republican Party? What kind of shit is that?”
The desperate last gasp of a dying political party.