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...With the Biden, Richardson and Uncommitted groups up for grabs, the real politicking began. This consisted mostly of individual pleas to "Come on. Really, come on." After 10 minutes everyone decided that they had enough and professor Larry asked people to count again. Of the five delegates allotted, three went to Obama, one to Clinton and one to Edwards. It was over in an hour and a half, which is a lot of time just to vote but a mere blip when you've practiced chanting, clapping and yelling into a TV camera for nine months...
...Thanks to Klein for his article's poetic conclusion. Along with Joe Biden's assessment of Bush as possibly "one of the most incompetent Presidents in modern American history," the truth that many of us have known finally wins out. So much for legacy. Dean Pappas, Salt Lake City...
...Democrats this year, though you wouldn't know it by the crowds in the last few days. The numbers at nearly every event in the final days have been so large that it can seem as if all the candidates have momentum, whether they actually do or not. Joe Biden has been drawing crowds of several hundred wherever he goes - unprecedented for Biden, and in most years a good omen. But since Democratic excitement is running at such a high pitch this year, it probably means far less this time around. Obama's crowds have been topping...
...before the 7 p.m. start of the Precinct 93 Democratic caucus near the airport, the big auditorium in Kurtz School was already divided into camps: John Edwards' and Barack Obama's supporters at the front corners; Hillary Clinton's in the center, and small enclaves of supporters for Joe Biden and Chris Dodd in the rear corners. Edwards had won this middle-class precinct four years ago, but at the outset it was far from clear that anyone had an edge among the 200 or so people who were there...
...first tallies showed that only Edwards (71), Clinton (58) and Obama (47) had more than the 29 supporters required to reach the 15% viability threshold to continue to the next round. Only one person was undecided. Biden's supporters, not ready to give up, tried to convince the supporters of the other bottom-tier candidates into regrouping with them. But the three leading contenders were not going to let that happen; all three groups started calling at the small knot of neighbors who had supported the remaining contenders. "We've got good sandwiches,"one man from the Clinton contingent shouted...