Almost over ….

January 3rd, 2008 at 08:57pm Chuck Sweeny

The 87th Precinct Democratic caucus in Des Moines is winding down. The second round of voting ends at 9:10. Obama leaders are worried because two of their backers had to leave at 8:50. “Can’t count ‘em if they don’t stay,” Max the caucus leader says, shrugging.

Meanwhile, Obama’s people are working hard to get Edwards supporters to cross the hall. When an Obama woman runs into flak from an Edwards man who says Obama missed a key vote in the Senate on terrorism. The Obama woman says, “Well, at least we can agree that we’re not voting for Hillary.” Edwards fans nod, “Not Hillary,” one says.

Max says, “For this facility, this is unwieldy. We needed an auditorium. We had one in the previous facility (a Methodist Church,) but we lost it because the date of the caucus was moved up.

Edwards has picked up support — he’s at 69 now, say his caucus leaders.

For the final count to determine how many delegates get split where, “We will have a member of each camp go with Max and count each group with witnesses of each candidate there, says Scott Falb, a caucus leader.

It’s close.

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