District of Columbia Democratic Delegation 2008

The Green Papers
2008 Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions

District of Columbia Democrat
Presidential Nominating Process
Primary: Tuesday 12 February 2008¹
State Party Committee: Thursday 3 April 2008

Candidate	Popular Vote	Delegate Votes
Candidate	Popular Vote	Hard Total	Floor Vote
Obama, Barack Hussein	`93,386 75.31%`	`12.0 30.00%`	`33.0 82.50%`
Clinton, Hillary Rodham	`29,470 23.77%`	`3.0 7.50%`	`7.0 17.50%`
Edwards, John Reid	`347 0.28%`
Uncommitted	`339 0.27%`	`25.0 62.50%`
Kucinich, Dennis J.	`193 0.16%`
Richardson, William B. "Bill", III	`145 0.12%`
Write-In	`114 0.09%`
(available)
Total	`123,994 100.00%`	`40.0 100.00%`	`40.0 100.00%`

Delegate Selection: Proportional Primary,
Polling hours 7:00a EST (1200 UTC) to 8:00p EST (0100 UTC).
Voter Eligibility: Closed Primary

40 total delegate votes - 10 district / 3 at large; 2 Pledged PLEOs; 23 Unpledged PLEOs; 2 Unpledged add-ons

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The vote count above reflects the certified returns as of 10 March 2008. In addition, there were 234 Under Votes and 53 Over Votes.

Unpledged delegates as of
29 January 2008: Clinton: 11, Obama: 2
9 February 2008: Clinton: 11, Obama: 3
12 February 2008: Clinton: 9, Obama: 3
16 February 2008: Clinton: 9, Obama: 5
20 February 2008: Clinton: 9, Obama: 7
29 February 2008: Clinton: 9, Obama: 9
8 March 2008: Clinton: 10, Obama: 9
30 March 2008: Clinton: 10, Obama: 8
12 April 2008: Clinton: 10, Obama: 9
19 April 2008: Clinton: 10, Obama: 10
14 May 2008: Clinton: 10, Obama: 11
15 May 2008: Clinton: 10, Obama: 12
3 June 2008: Clinton: 9, Obama: 13
6 June 2008: Clinton: 8, Obama: 14

According to the 17 May 2008 article below, 1 Clinton pledged delegate intends to cast his ballot for Obama. Accordingly, we have changed our soft pledged count from Obama 12, Clinton 3 to Obama 13, Clinton 2. Our hard count remains Obama 12, Clinton 3 as originally assigned.

WashingtonCityPaper.com: Jack Throws Support to Obama ... [Jack] Evans [At-Large] announced ... he’s throwing his support behind Barack Obama.... Evans had been a longtime Hillary Clinton supporter, co-chairing her campaign in the District. Earlier this month, he’d been elected by local Democrats to serve as an at-large delegate pledged to Clinton.

According to the 20 May 2008 article below, Jack Evans has changed his mind. Again.

Examiner.com: Clinton campaign has District councilman’s vote ... again ... Councilman Jack Evans said Monday he is again backing Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid, one day after he threw his support to Sen. Barack Obama. “I’m a pledged delegate for Hillary Clinton and I will vote for her at the convention,” said Evans ... Evans, a member of Clinton’s D.C. steering committee, was elected only two weeks ago by his fellow District Democrats to serve as a pledged Clinton delegate at the party’s convention. But Saturday, as he launched his re-election campaign, the councilman revealed a new direction ...

Reference: District of Columbia Delegate Selection Plan FOR THE 2008 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION (updated 2/08)

Tuesday 12 February 2008: 15 of 40 delegates to the Democratic National Convention are pledged to presidential contenders based on the results of the voting in today's District of Columbia Presidential Primary. A mandatory 15 percent threshold is required in order for a presidential contender to be allocated National Convention delegates at either the congressional district or statewide level.

10 district delegates are to be pledged proportionally to presidential contenders based on the primary results in each of the District's 2 municipal districts (each consisting of 4 of the city's 8 wards).

municipal district 1 (Wards 1, 2, 3, 4): 5
municipal district 2 (Wards 5, 6, 7, 8): 5

In addition, 5 delegates are to be pledged to presidential contenders based on the district wide primary vote.
- 3 at-large National Convention delegates
- 2 Pledged PLEOs

Here is how we compute the delegate count (based on certified returns from an official source):

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.

Contest				OBAMA			CLINTON
	Pop Vote	Qual Vote	Del	Pop Vote	Alloc	Del	Pop Vote	Alloc	Del
MD1	64,594	63,950	5	45,200	3.534	4	18,750	1.466	1
MD2	59,396	58,902	5	48,183	4.090	4	10,719	0.910	1
PLEO	123,990	122,852	2	93,383	1.520	2	29,469	0.480
At-Large	123,990	122,852	3	93,383	2.280	2	29,469	0.720	1
Delegates			15			12			3

Thursday 3 April 2008: State Party Committee.

The remaining 25 National Convention delegates consist of

23 Unpledged PLEO delegates:

19 Democratic National Committee members.
3 Members of Congress (1 nonvoting Delegate to the House of Representatives plus 2 so-called "shadow Senators" [the Democratic Party traditionally supports Statehood for the District of Columbia; in addition this number reflects the Electoral Vote of D.C. which has always gone to the Democrats in Presidential Elections]).
1 "Governor" (the Mayor of DC).
0 Distinguished Party Leaders.

2 Unpledged "add-on"s (Selected by the DC Democratic State Committee. At least one of these delegates shall be a "Shadow" Representative, if a Democrat.).

These 25 delegates and will go to the Democratic National Convention officially "Unpledged".

Delegation to the National Convention

District of Columbia Delegation (as posted by http://www.demconvention.com/, 13 June 2008)

Role	Clinton	Obama	(total)
Pledged District	2	8	10
Pledged PLEO	0	2	2
Pledged At-Large	1	2	3
Total Pledged	3	12	15
Alternate Pledged District	0	3	3
Alternate Pledged PLEO	0	0	0
Alternate Pledged At-Large	0	1	1
Total Alternates	0	4	4
Unpledged			25
Credentials Committee			4
Platform Committee			3
Rules Committee			3
Pages			2

Role(s)	Preference	Name	Residence
Pledged District 1	Obama	Jerry N. Clark	Washington, DC
Pledged District 1	Obama	Maria P. Corrales	Washington, DC
Pledged District 1	Obama	Kierra Johnson	Washington, DC
Pledged District 1	Clinton	Peter D. Rosenstein	Washington, DC
Pledged District 1	Obama	Darryl Wiggins	Washington, DC
Pledged District 2	Clinton	Hon. Sandra C. Allen	Washington, DC
Pledged District 2	Obama	Pauline E. Chapman	Washington, DC
Pledged District 2	Obama	Cynthia Kain	Washington, DC
Pledged District 2	Obama	Eugene D. Kinlow	Washington, DC
Pledged District 2	Obama	Anthony Muhammad	Washington, DC
Pledged PLEO	Obama	Hon. Kwame R. Brown	Washington, DC
Pledged PLEO	Obama	Hon. Vincent C. Gray	Washington, DC
Pledged At-Large	Obama	Hon. Muriel Bowser	Washington, DC
Pledged At-Large	Clinton	Hon. Jack Evans	Washington, DC
Pledged At-Large	Obama	James Hudson	Washington, DC
Alternate Pledged District 1	Obama	Keshini Ladduwhetty	Washington, DC
Alternate Pledged District 2	Obama	Betty L. Smalls	Washington, DC
Alternate Pledged District 2	Obama	Juan Manuel Thompson	Washington, DC
Alternate Pledged At-Large	Obama	Thomas Lindenfeld	Washington, DC
Unpledged Delegation Chair		Anita Bonds	Washington, DC
Unpledged Delegation Vice Chair		Jeffrey Richardson	Washington, DC
Unpledged Add-On		Hon. Yvette Alexander	Washington, DC
Unpledged Add-On		Hon. Harry "Tommy" Thomas, Jr.	Washington, DC
Unpledged Congressman		Hon. Eleanor Holmes Norton	Washington, DC
Unpledged DNC Member		Donna Brazile	Washington, DC
Unpledged DNC Member		Marilyn Brown	Washington, DC
Unpledged DNC Member		Anna Burger	Washington, DC
Unpledged DNC Member		Mary Eva Candon	Washington, DC
Unpledged DNC Member		Yolanda Caraway	Washington, DC
Unpledged DNC Member		Larry Cohen	Washington, DC
Unpledged DNC Member		Arrington Dixon	Washington, DC
Unpledged DNC Member		Hartina Flournoy	Washington, DC
Unpledged DNC Member		Harold Ickes	Washington, DC
Unpledged DNC Member		Ben Johnson	Washington, DC
Unpledged DNC Member		Eric Kleinfeld	Washington, DC
Unpledged DNC Member		Moses Mercado	Washington, DC
Unpledged DNC Member		Mona Mohib	Washington, DC
Unpledged DNC Member		Minyon Moore	Washington, DC
Unpledged DNC Member		Elizabeth M. Smith	Washington, DC
Unpledged DNC Member		Christine Warnke	Washington, DC
Unpledged DNC Member		James J. Zogby	Washington, DC
Unpledged Governor Delegation Chair		Hon. Adrian Fenty	Washington, DC
Unpledged Senator		Hon. Michael Brown	Washington, DC
Unpledged Senator		Hon. Paul Strauss	Washington, DC
Credentials Committee		Dean Aguillen	Washington, DC
Credentials Committee		Jose Ceballos	Washington, DC
Credentials Committee		Hartina Flournoy	Washington, DC
Credentials Committee	Obama	Miriam Sapiro	Washington, DC
Platform Committee		Hon. Elizabeth Frawley Bagley	Washington, DC
Platform Committee	Clinton	Hon. William Lightfoot	Washington, DC
Platform Committee		Edward McElroy	Washington, DC
Rules Committee	Obama	Don Dinan	Washington, DC
Rules Committee		Irma Esparza	Washington, DC
Rules Committee		Sunita Leeds	Washington, DC
Page		James Berry	Washington, DC
Page		Deborah Royster	Washington, DC

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