Precinct 2. I was surprised to see so many people show up. Got the packet and promptly at 7:15 had people sign in, which took about 10 minutes to do. Then, I was elected to be the convention chair , and we elected a secretary and I began the task of counting how many people were there, and who was for whom, and how to do the numbers. Several of us, with the help of a calculator, figured out the percentages, which, out of 11 delegates, were 7 for Clinton and 4 for Obama. Then the sides broke into their own caucuses to decide who would be the delegates to go on to the county convention in a few weeks and that was that. Everyone was very excited, not the least reason being that this was the first precinct convention anyone could remember attending, and it was great no matter what to know that our votes were actually important this time around. Everything went very smoothly, and while I personally would have wished for more Obama supporters to show up (which they actually did in another precinct here where Obama supporters outdid Clinton), overall it was very satisfying.

P.S. Somervell County always puts the numbers out on a whiteboard downtown on the square. I noticed on the Republican side that McCain only beat Huckabee by SIX VOTES. When we got home, I heard that Huckabee withdrew because his numbers were so low in Texas... well not in THIS county.

P.P.S. Dale Henry didn't do as well as I thought he should have-while Art Hall had less numbers, Mark Thompson had more. And, uh, what is up with people voting for Gene Kelley?????????? Sheesh.