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American Samoa Democrats have Super Tuesday role
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Feb 05, 2008 02:13am |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Newspaper - Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| News Date | Sunday, February 3, 2008 08:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Seattle Post-Intelligencer article.
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"They can't vote for president in the general election, but American Samoa Democrats have a modest role on Super Tuesday in choosing their party's nominee.
The island territory has six votes in the Democratic National Convention. Three of those votes will be divided among six party leaders who are superdelegates. The other three will be decided in a territory-wide caucus on Tuesday.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is supported by four of the superdelegates, but not all of them have a full vote on the floor. Two other superdelegates have endorsed Sen. Barack Obama.
Despite the time in the Pacific island territory being three hours earlier than the West Coast, the presidential caucus is to be held early enough for results of the final three delegate votes to get to the U.S. mainland while some other state primaries are still being counted.
The three delegate votes will be allocated to either Clinton or Obama, according to the percentage of the caucus vote won by each candidate. More actual convention delegates will be elected, however, each with a fraction of a vote.
The superdelegate votes go to Gov. Togiola T. A. Tulafono and three other unpledged superdelegates who have said they'll support Clinton and to Rep. Eni Faleomavaega, the territory's nonvoting delegate to Congress, and Democratic National Committee member DNC Therese Hunkin, who support Obama.
Party leaders say Tulafono and Faleomavaega each will get a full vote at the convention, while the other four superdelegates will split the remaining single vote.
That gives Clinton 1 3/4 superdelegates and Obama 1 1/4 going in to Tuesday's caucus vote." |
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