Posted on 02/10/2008 1:29:00 PM PST by libh8er
CAPE ELIZABETH — Sen. Barack Obama cruised to an easy win in the Cape Elizabeth caucus on Saturday, defeating Sen. Hillary Clinton by a vote of 72 to 28 percent.
More than 680 people turned out to participate in the caucus, more than double the number of those that showed up in 2004, according to Jamie Wagner, the chairman of the Cape Elizabeth Democratic Committee.
The large crowd delayed the start of the caucus by more than an hour.
Obama won by a final tally of 556 to 217. That total includes the 94 Democrats who voted absentee.
The Illinois senator also won in Yarmouth, defeating Clinton by a three-to-one margin. The final vote there was 484-139, Obama.
Democratic caucus-goers in Portland are waiting in long lines at Portland High School while a team of 30 registrars works to herd them into the event.
Organizers have assured the hundreds still waiting outside the high school that anyone in line by 4 p.m. will be admitted to the caucus. Voters waited in lines that stretched from the school’s entrance on Cumberland Avenue to Congress Street as recently as 2:30 p.m.
Its Obama in Fairfield:
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FAIRFIELD — A contingent of eight undeclared Democratic Party regulars cast their votes for Barack Obama in caucuses on Sunday, shifting the party balance in Fairfield away from Hillary Clinton. In the end, said caucus Chairman Franklin Bouchard, there were 55 Democrats for Obama and 54 for Clinton. The vote means each camp will send seven delegates to the Maine Democratic Party convention in May. Fairfield has 14 delegates to the convention.
If Mrs. Clinton becomes president you have to wonder how she will punish those places that went against her big sorry cellulite filled butt.
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