Mary Ann Neely has been the Democratic precinct chair at Pct. 342 Barton Hills Elementary School since 1980. Before Tuesday night’s very polite showdown between the supporters of
On Tuesday night at 7pm, the polls closed with 85 voters standing in line waiting to vote. When they were done, many of them joined the hundreds waiting in the school cafeteria and the gym and in long lines that snaked down the halls of the school.
Because
A total of 728 people signed in—of those, 490 signed in for Obama and 238 for 
Signing up to be counted for the caucus process took considerably longer than voting for all the candidates on the ballot. Each person signing in was watched by a representative of the
Then several representatives of each campaign counted the signatures for each candidate together while the rest of the convention goers milled about talking and waiting. Watching this excitement were 
CNN’s
By 11:15pm, the delegate count was done and all the proposed resolutions approved except for two—both opposing abortion—which the group rejected.
Meanwhile, down the hallway in a small conference room, Republican Pct. Chair Gail Suttle was presiding over 20 Republican voters. Ron Paul supporter Kevin French came out of that meeting a satisfied man. He reported that 16 of the 20 who showed up for that group’s caucus supported the race’s iconoclastic Texas Congressman.
Precinct caucuses all over
Photos by Stacy Aronson