Caucusing in Hawaii

[jdirgo]

Just because I got curious (i.e. "why is it only the Democrats are voting for a candidate today"), I did a little research. Apparently, the Republican party in Hawaii does not vote for a candidate -- they have caucuses (cauci?) to vote for the delegates to the Hawaii State Republican Party Convention on May 19th. No polling of candidate choice is made at the caucus. At the Convention in May, the Republicans will elect 19 people (from 1093 going to the State Convention) to go to the National Republican Convention and those 19 people will go as uncommitted delegates.

That means that, once again, Hawaii could be in a position to have some influence (for once) on which candidate goes to the vote in November. Those 19 votes could be important if the Romney delegates don't follow Romney's endorsement of McCain and lead to a bit of a split within the party.

Most likely it won't amount to anything, but at least both parties finally have reason to pay attention to these little rocks in middle of the Pacific.

John Dirgo, R, ABR, e-PRO
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