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rinsd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 06:35 PM
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Obama wins state delegate from TX caucus on coin flip
12-year-old flipped coin for delegate

By Corrie MacLaggan | Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 04:45 PM

When 12-year-old Austinite Catherine Arjet went to a caucus with her mother, Jessica, last night, she wasn’t expecting a lot of excitement.

But that was before she was chosen to flip a coin that determined how many of her precinct’s delegates each candidate would receive.

At the caucus at Govalle Elementary School, participants were evenly split 128-128 between Clinton and Obama, according to several people there. But the precinct was worth an odd number of delegates: 27.

So caucus leaders made calls to a Democratic Party caucus hotline, Jessica Arjet said, and were told to toss a coin.

More at the link - http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/politics/index.html

This was for state delegates per precinct not delegates towards the nomination.
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TAWS Donating Member (312 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 06:36 PM
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1. I'm pretty sure it was for one county delegate, which won't have any impact on delegate count n/t
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rinsd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 06:37 PM
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5. Yes I noted it was a state delegate and not a delegate toward nomination.
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 06:36 PM
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2. The man is a winner.
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El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 06:37 PM
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3. That's exactly what I did at my precinct in Colorado.
Only I flipped the coin. Obama won.
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MadBadger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 06:37 PM
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4. I wonder what coin it was.
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Emit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 06:38 PM
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6. In NV, we cut the deck and drew a card
Aces high, baby!
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CountAllVotes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-05-08 06:38 PM
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7. good flip
:D :toast: :party: :D

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