American Samoa Democratic Delegation 2008

The Green Papers
2008 Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions

American Samoa Democrat
Presidential Nominating Process
Territorial Caucus: Tuesday 5 February 2008¹

Candidate	Popular Vote	Delegate Votes
Candidate	Popular Vote	Soft Pledged	Soft Unpledged (source)	Soft Total	Hard Total
Clinton, Hillary Rodham	`163 57.19%`	`2.0 66.67%`	`4.0 66.67%`	`6.0 66.67%`
Obama, Barack	`121 42.46%`	`1.0 33.33%`	`2.0 33.33%`	`3.0 33.33%`
Gravel, Mike	`1 0.35%`
Uncommitted					`6.0 66.67%`
(available)					`3.0 33.33%`
Total	`285 100.00%`	`3.0 100.00%`	`6.0 100.00%`	`9.0 100.00%`	`9.0 100.00%`

Delegate Selection: Caucus/Convention
Voter Eligibility: Open Caucus

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

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AMERICAN SAMOA Democratic TERRITORIAL CAUCUS

Tuesday 5 February 2008

Today's Territorial Caucus chooses 6 of American Samoa's 12 delegates to the Democratic National Convention (together representing 3 pledged "delegate votes" [of American Samoa's 9 total "delegate votes"] at the Democratic National Convention): each of these 6 pledged delegates will only cast ½ (or .5) of a vote on the floor of the Democratic National Convention, thus the total of 3 pledged "delegate votes". The caucus is scheduled to take place between 9 AM local time (2000 UTC) and 11 AM local time (2200 UTC).

Delegate selection process from a media source: American Samoa Democrats have Super Tuesday role

Here is how we estimate the delegate count as compiled from a media source from the 5 February 2008 Caucuses):

A candidate must receive 15% or more of the total popular vote to qualify for delegates. Discard votes cast for those candidates who do not qualify. Clinton and Obama have qualified for delegates.
Allocate Congressional District delegates from the qualified vote in each district. Allocate Pledged PLEO and At-Large delegates using the state-wide qualified vote.
In each jurisdiction (CD and statewide):

Total qualified vote = total votes cast for the qualifying candidates in the jurisdiction.
Allocation = (delegates for the jurisdiction) × (candidate's popular vote) ÷ (total qualified vote).
Assign each candidate the WHOLE NUMBER of delegates.
If delegates remain, allocate each of the remaining delegates to those candidates with the LARGEST REMAINDERS.

Note that each of the 6 delegates casts one half vote at the convention for a total of 3 delegate votes.

Tuesday 5 February 2008 Territorial Caucus
Contest				Clinton			Obama
	Pop Vote	Qual Vote	Del	Pop Vote	Alloc	Del	Pop Vote	Alloc	Del
District	285	284	0	163	0.000		121	0.000
At-Large	285	284	3	163	1.722	2	121	1.278	1
PLEO	285	284	0	163	0.000		121	0.000
Delegates			3			2			1

Unpledged delegates as of
29 January 2008: Clinton: 4, Obama: 1
12 February 2008: Clinton: 4, Obama: 2

Reference: Summary of State Delegate Selection Plan

Tuesday 5 February 2008: A Territorial Caucus made up of all interested voters meets to choose 6 of American Samoa's 12 delegates to the Democratic National Convention (together representing 3 pledged delegates of American Samoa's 9 total delegate votes at the National Convention).

"These 6 at-large delegates to the National Convention are elected in '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.
Pledged DELEGATE VOTES (of which there are 3) rather than pledged DELEGATES (of which there are 6) are allocated to presidential contenders according to the percentage of the caucus vote won by each candidate.

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

This territory's Democratic Member of Congress (Territorial Delegate Eni Faleomavaega) (=a non-voting Delegate in the House of Representatives); the territorial Delegate is an "Unpledged PLEO" and casts 1 delegate vote.
This territory's Democratic Governor (Governor Togiola Tulafono); the territorial Governor 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 delegate vote.

Links Links to other web sites

Election Authority
	• American Samoa Election Office
	• American Samoa Election Office
	• American Samoa Government
Legislature Links to State Legislatures
	• American Samoa Goverment Listings - Legislative Branch - FONO
Democratic
	• Democratic Party of American Samoa; P.O. Box 5169; Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799; 684/633-4656; Fax 684/633-1638
Media & others
	• American Samoa, History, Tourism, Culture, Politics - AmSamoa.NET
	• DC's Political Report - American Samoa
	• Manuatele.NET - Manu'a - American Samoa
	• Politics1.com - American Samoa
	• Samoa News
	• Samoa Observer
	• Samoanet.com

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