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Ballots from Agat, Yona, Dededo could change outcome of caucus
18 villages down, 3 to go. And the remaining villages that are uncounted could possibly sway the results of the Guam Democrat Caucus in Hillary Clinton's favor. With the votes from only Agat, Yona and Dededo left to be tabulated by volunteers down in Hagatna at the Guam Legislature, the race for the presidential candidate hopeful is really starting to take an interesting twist. Barack Obama has led pretty much all the way, with Clinton gaining favor late in the tallying, slowly chipping away at a lead that got as large as 8%.
Currently Clinton trails Obama by 211 votes, garnering 46.7% of the vote (1,509) to Obama's 53.3% (1,720).
The Democrat Party of Guam, admittedly pleased at the unexpected surge in voter turnout during Saturday's caucus for the delegates/superdelegates (Guam citizens cannot directly cast votes for president, despite being full United States citizens), found themselves spending the last 10 hours overwhelmed at the volume of work required to count all the ballots. Initial party representatives hoped to have full results completed within a few hours after the polls closed at 8pm Saturday; they're now projecting a final tally - with the remaining municipalities being among Guam's largest - being completed sometime late this morning or even sometime Sunday afternoon.
So while the local community awakens to learn of an all-too-familiar conundrum of incomplete next-day election results (with the global audience paying astute attention to the political events unfolding half a world away), the next few hours will be critical for Guam, for Democrats, and for each candidate.
Stay tuned.
Click here to see the voting breakdown
Click here to see Democrat Party of Guam chairman Tony Charfauros explain the day's voting
Click here for information about Guam's delegate/superdelegate voting process
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