Well I’m still down at the Teamsters Local 728 with a few score other die-hard caucusers and a handful of the more optimistic delegate candidates.  The Clinton caucus wrapped up a couple of hours ago, and our friend Angela Trigg will be heading to Colorado representing the fifth. Only five Obama delegate candidates dropped out before we began, leaving eighty people to vote for. I’d say about two thirds of them made speeches, and we managed to keep it just under three hours, if memory serves. The ballots have been out for counting for over an hour, maybe an hour and a half.

District Chair Will Curry reports that this was the largest delegate caucus in Georgia today and the largest in Georgia history. Congressman Lewis was here for most of the business portion shaking hands and celebrating the high turnout; word has it his primary competitor, Markel Hutchins, was here, too.

It went surprisingly smoothly, considering the volume of people in line and packed into the auditorium when I got here made the West Des Moines caucus I attended look like a small Bible study group. And much to the chagrin of a webcaster looking for entertaining footage, all of the speeches were pretty good, too. You can see some examples over at Qik; there are some pics up at Flickr. (I’m not up for figuring out how to copy and paste all that embed code in my phone browser right now.)

God willing, we’ll have results in another half hour? Hour?  But that leaves precious little time for a nap (or something more productive like cleaning my apartment) before we head over to the Graveyard pub in East Atlanta around 6:00.



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