Virgin Islands Democratic Delegation 2008

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2008 Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions

Virgin Islands Democrat
Presidential Nominating Process
Territorial Convention: Saturday 9 February 2008¹

Candidate	Popular Vote	Delegate Votes
Candidate	Popular Vote	Hard Total	Floor Vote
Obama, Barack Hussein	`1,772 89.95%`	`3.0 33.33%`
Clinton, Hillary Rodham	`149 7.56%`
Uncommitted	`49 2.49%`	`6.0 66.67%`
Edwards, John Reid
(available)
(not voting)			`9.0 100.00%`
Total	`1,970 100.00%`	`9.0 100.00%`	`9.0 100.00%`

Delegate Selection: Caucus/Convention
Voter Eligibility: Closed Caucus

9 total delegate votes - 3 at large; 6 Unpledged PLEOs

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Media article 21 January 2008

Results from a media source.

2008 V.I. Democratic Party Presidential Caucus Unofficial Results

Territory

Barack Obama: 1772 votes, 89.9 percent of votes cast;
Hillary Clinton: 149 votes, 7.6 percent of votes cast;
Other and Uncommitted: 49, or 2.5 percent of votes cast.

St. Croix
- Barack Obama: 628 votes, 84 percent of St. Croix votes cast;
- Hillary Clinton: 72 votes, 9.7 percent of St. Croix votes cast;
- Other and Uncommitted: 46, or 6.3 percent of St. Croix votes cast.
St. Thomas
- Barack Obama: 1144 votes, 93.5 percent of St. Thomas votes cast;
- Hillary Clinton: 77 votes, 6.3 percent of St. Thomas votes cast;
- Other and uncommitted: 3 votes, 0.2 percent of St. Thomas votes cast.

Results are unofficial. There are still provisional ballots to count, which while not enough to change the outcome, may change the figures of the final tally. As of 11 p.m. Saturday, which Obama delegates will be going to the National Convention was still being determined.

Unpledged delegates as of
29 January 2008: Clinton: 1, Obama: 1
16 February 2008: Clinton: 1, Obama: 2
15 March 2008: Clinton: 2, Obama: 2
11 May 2008: Clinton: 1, Obama: 4
28 May 2008: Clinton: 2, Obama: 3

Saturday 9 February 2008: A Territorial Convention meets to choose 9 of the Virgin Islands' 12 delegates to the Democratic National Convention (together representing 3 of the Virgin Islands' 9 delegate votes at the National Convention).

These 6 at-large delegates to the National Convention are elected in two "preference caucuses" at the Territorial Convention which allocate these delegates to the presidential contenders in a way which reflects the percentage of support for the candidates at the Territorial Convention- a mandatory 15 percent threshold being necessary in order for a presidential contender to be allocated National Convention delegates.
Each of these 6 Pledged delegates will only cast ½ (or .5) of a vote on the floor of the Democratic National Convention.

The remaining 6 delegates (representing the Virgin Islands' remaining 6 delegate votes) are Unpledged PLEOs who will go to the Democratic National Convention officially "Unpledged".

The 6 "Unpledged" votes are cast by 6 actual delegates as follows:

This territory's Democratic Member of Congress (=a non-voting Delegate in the House of Representatives); territorial Delegate Donna M. Christensen is an "Unpledged PLEO" and casts 1 delegate vote.
This territory's Democratic Governor; territorial Governor John P. deJongh, Jr. is an "Unpledged PLEO" and casts 1 delegate vote.
This territory's 4 Democratic National Committee members: each of these territorial DNC members casts 1 vote apiece for a total of 4 delegate votes.

Delegation to the National Convention

Virgin Islands Delegation (as posted by http://www.demconvention.com/, 11 August 2008)

Role	Obama	(total)
Pledged District	0	0
Pledged PLEO	0	0
Pledged At-Large	6	6
Total Pledged	6	6
Alternate Pledged District	0	0
Alternate Pledged PLEO	0	0
Alternate Pledged At-Large	1	1
Total Alternates	1	1
Unpledged		6
Credentials Committee		1
Platform Committee		1
Rules Committee		1
Pages		1

Role(s)	Preference	Name	Residence
Pledged At-Large	Obama	Arah C. Lockhart	St.Thomas, VI
Pledged At-Large	Obama	Hon. Shawn-Michael Malone	St. Thomas, VI
Pledged At-Large	Obama	James A. O'Bryan, Jr.	St. Thomas, VI
Pledged At-Large	Obama	Sebastiano Paiewonsky-Cassinelli	St. Thomas, VI
Pledged At-Large	Obama	Shawna K. Richards	Frederiksted, VI
Pledged At-Large	Obama	Robert Rios	Christiansted, VI
Alternate Pledged At-Large	Obama	Wanda Morris	Frederiksted, St. Croix, VI
Unpledged Delegation Chair		Cecil R. Benjamin	Christiansted, VI
Unpledged Delegation Vice Chair		Marilyn A. Stapleton	St. Thomas, VI
Unpledged Congressman		Hon. Donna Christian-Christensen	Washington, DC
Unpledged DNC Member		Carol Burke	St. Croix, VI
Unpledged DNC Member		Kevin A. Rodriquez	Nashville, TN
Unpledged Governor		Hon. John De Jongh	St.Thomas, VI
Credentials Committee		Hon. John De Jongh	St.Thomas, VI
Platform Committee	Obama	Hon. Donna Christian-Christensen	Washington, DC
Rules Committee	Obama	Sebastiano Paiewonsky-Cassinelli	St. Thomas, VI
Page		Brad Nugent	Christiansted, St. Croix, VI

Links Links to other web sites

Constitution Links to State Constitutions
	• LII - US Code collection - Virgin Islands
	• Organic Act of Guam
	• Revised Organic Act of 1954
Election Authority
	• Election System of the Virgin Islands
Democratic
	• Virgin Islands Democratic Party; P.O. Box 502578; St. Thomas, USVI 00805-2578; 340/643-4600
Media & others
	• BBC Caribbean
	• DC's Political Report - Virgin Islands
	• Politics1.com - Virgin Islands
	• St. John Tradewinds
	• The Vanguard - St. Croix
	• The Virgin Islands Daily News
	• WSTA AM - St. Thomas

¹ Democratic Party's "First Determining Step" of the delegate selection process.