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2008 Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions
 
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Presidential Nominating Process
Municipal Caucuses: Sunday 10 February 20081
State Convention.: Saturday 31 May 2008
Democrats
CandidateState
Convention
Delegates
Selected
Delegate Votes
Soft
Pledged
Soft
Unpledged
(source)
Soft
Total
Hard Total
Obama, Barack2,079  59.43%15.0  62.50%2.0  25.00%17.0  53.12% 
Clinton, Hillary Rodham1,397  39.94%9.0  37.50%1.0  12.50%10.0  31.25% 
Uncommitted18   0.51%   8.0  25.00%
Others4   0.11%    
Edwards, John     
(available)  5.0  62.50%5.0  15.62%24.0  75.00%
Total3,498 100.00%24.0 100.00%8.0 100.00%32.0 100.00%32.0 100.00%

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The Maine Democratic Party reports 43,866 total attendees in their caucuses.

Here is how we estimate the delegate count (Based on complete 10 February 2008 Municipal Caucus results obtain from a party source on 15 April 2008. Note that no National Convention delegates are allocated until the Saturday 31 May 2008 State Convention.):

  1. 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.
  2. Allocate Congressional District delegates from the qualified vote in each district. Allocate Pledged PLEO and At-Large delegates using the state-wide qualified vote.
  3. In each jurisdiction (CD and statewide):
    1. Total qualified vote = total votes cast for the qualifying candidates in the jurisdiction.
    2. Allocation = (delegates for the jurisdiction) × (candidate's popular vote) ÷ (total qualified vote).
    3. Assign each candidate the WHOLE NUMBER of delegates.
    4. If delegates remain, allocate each of the remaining delegates to those candidates with the LARGEST REMAINDERS.

ContestObamaClinton
 Pop
Vote
Qual
Vote
DelVoteAllocDelVoteAllocDel
CD11,8531,84491,1635.67666813.3243
CD21,6441,63279163.92947163.0713
PLEO3,4973,47632,0791.79421,3971.2061
At-Large3,4973,47652,0792.99131,3972.0092
Delegates  24  15  9

Information from a Party source: Maine Democratic Party's Caucus Homepage

Maine Democratic Party, 10 February 2007:

"Exactly 1 year from today, on February 10th, 2008, Maine Democrats will caucus to choose our preference to become the next President of the United States. The 2008 Presidential Preference Caucus will be open to registered Maine Democrats; those who are not enrolled in any party will be allowed to register as a Democrat at the location in order participate in the caucus."

Reference: Maine Delegate Selection Plan


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


   

Sunday 10 February 2008: The Municipal Caucuses choose delegates to the State Convention. Such Municipal delegates are allocated to presidential contenders in proportion to the percentage of the support each candidate receives at the Municipal Caucus. The apportionment of delegates to the National Convention by Presidential Preference will be determined by the delegates at the State Convention.

 

Saturday 31 May 2008: State Convention. 24 of 32 delegates to the Democratic National Convention are allocated to presidential contenders based on the presidential preference of the delegates in attendance at the State Convention. 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.

  • 16 district delegates are to be allocated proportionally based on the delegates presidential preferences in each of the State's 2 congressional districts.
    • CD 1: 9
    • CD 2: 7
  • In addition, 8 delegates are to be allocated to presidential contenders based the support for the presidential contenders in the State Convention as a whole.
    • 5 at-large National Convention delegates
    • 3 Pledged PLEOs

The remaining 8 National Convention delegates consist of

  • 7 Unpledged PLEO delegates:
    • 4 Democratic National Committee members.
    • 2 Members of Congress (0 Senators and 2 Representatives).
    • 1 Governor.
    • 0 Distinguished Party Leaders.
  • 1 Unpledged "add-on" (selected during the State Convention).

These 8 delegates and will go to the Democratic National Convention officially "Unpledged".


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

 


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