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Presidential Nominating Process
Territorial Caucus: Tuesday 6 March 20121
Democrats
CandidatePopular
Vote
Delegate Votes
Hard TotalFloor Vote
Obama, Barack Hussein 6.0  50.00%12.0 100.00%
Uncommitted 6.0  50.00% 
Total 12.0 100.00%12.0 100.00%

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Starting on Tuesday 20 March 2012, a 15% pledged delegate bonus is awarded when clusters of 3 or more neighboring states begin on the same date. American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands are considered neighboring states of each other. [Reg 5.1.C Article I.C.2.b]


   

Tuesday 6 March 2012: Today's Territorial Caucus made up of interested voters meets to choose 6 of American Samoa's 12 delegates to the Democratic National Convention. The caucus is scheduled to take place between 9 AM local time (2000 UTC) and 11 AM local time (2200 UTC).

  • These 6 at-large delegates to the National Convention are elected in 'preference caucuses' at the Territorial Convention. The delegates are allocated 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.

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 (Eni F.H. 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 (Togiola T.A. 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.

6 March 2012 results from a talanei.com: Democrats select delegates for DNC. Thanks to Andrew Watiker for the link.

"The American Samoa Democratic Party ... cast its full 12 votes for their party's candidate, incumbent Barack Obama ... [Delegation Chair] Aliimau [JR Scanlan] said the local delegation will relay to the DNC their strong support for Obama ..."

Based on this report, we are assigning American Samoa's 6 pledged and 6 unpledged delegates to President Obama.


Notes:

On 29 April 2011 Samoa News reported that the American Samoa Democratic Party will convene on 30 April 2011 in Fagatogo to discuss their 2012 delegate selection process. Read the article here.


Delegation to the National Convention

American Samoa Delegation (as posted at http://www.democrats.org/2012-convention-delegate-list, 20 August 2012)

 
NameResidence
Daniel AgaPago Pago
Marilyn Ah ChingPago Pago
Eni FaleomavaegaPago Pago
Nina F GlaudePago Pago
Therese L HunkinPago Pago
Salu Hunkin-FinauPago Pago
Fagafaga D LangkildePago Pago
Sister LangkildePago Pago
Sean MorrisonPago Pago
Clara J ReidPago Pago
Patrick T ReidPago Pago
Caroline F RisingPago Pago
Aliimau "J.R." ScanlanPago Pago
Susan ScanlanPago Pago
Jesse ScanlanPago Pago
Corey SenePago Pago
Togiola TulafonoPago Pago

Links Links to other web sites

Election Authority
  American Samoa Government Election Office
Democratic
  American Samoa Democratic Party
  American Samoa Democratic Party.
  Democratic Party of American Samoa; P.O. Box 1281; Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799; 684-252-7219
Media & others
  American Samoa, History, Tourism, Culture, Politics - AmSamoa.NET
  Manuatele.NET - Manu'a - American Samoa
  Politics1.com - American Samoa
  Samoa News
  Samoa Observer

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

 


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