Every time I watch TV I see that it is snowing in Michigan.  I remember Gregg used to always joke that the lakes are low but this can’t be true any more.  This has got to be record snowfall. 

Last night Gregg and I caucused.  Well I caucused and he conventioned.  I don’t know.  They have different names and rules for each group.  Only 6 republicans showed up and were heckled by the crowd of 148 dems.  I laughed, who would have ever thought it would be embarassing to admit being a republican in Texas.  The teasing was all in good fun and I’m sure you know Gregg gave it right back.  He offered to sell his vote again.  I’m still not sure what he did but we had to sign in and say who we wanted to vote for.  Then they counted the results and found that 69% voted for Obama and 31% voted for Clinton.  That meant that we had to break down the delegates.  Obama got 9 and Clinton got 5.  We divided up into the two camps and we elected the 9 people to be the delegates to represent us in Williamson County.  Then that was it!  Simple enough.

Gregg sat in the republican room the whole time.  I wondered how hard it was to sign 6 people in and vote.  Turns out Gregg gets to be a delegate.  Then some Ron Paul guy came in and started proposing resolutions.  That is what Gregg had to listen to for 1 1/2 hours. 

So that was our caucusing in a nut shell.  I see Clinton won the primary but last I saw Obama was winning in the caucuses.  Which means only that Clinton won 2/3 of the votes and Obama won 1/3(caucus).  Something about when a Dem votes in the primary it is only 2/3 of a vote and the caucus is the other 1/3.  So if you don’t go to your caucus you wasted 1/3 of your vote.

I don’t know who designed these rules.  But it sure was fun.