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.