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February 9, 2008 at 3:13 pm | In Gatewood, West Seattle news, West Seattle politics | 53 Comments

7:10 PM, FINAL UNOFFICIAL 34TH DISTRICT DEMOCRATIC RESULTS: The 34th District Democrats’ site says: 70% Obama, 28% Clinton. State Democrat results are here; state Republican results are here. Coverage below shows all previous updates, oldest to newest.

ORIGINAL 3:13 PM REPORT: Just back from our caucus (at Denny Middle School). Topline on our precinct caucus: About 40 participants (more than twice what we had when caucusing with the same precinct four years ago); we started with a proportion of votes equal to 2 Obama delegates, 1 Clinton delegate, 1 undecided; ended with 3 Obama delegates (to the district convention) and 1 Clinton delegate. P.S. This photo just in from Tim, who caucused at Arbor Heights Elementary and says the lunch room was so packed they expanded to classrooms (same thing at Denny):

ADDED AT 4:19 PM: Thanks for the delegate results you’re posting comments. Keep ‘em coming. Note the 34th DD results update link. Meantime, here’s another Arbor Heights Elementary photo, from Jeff:

ADDED 4:34 PM: Yes, there are Republicans in West Seattle. The line to get into the GOP caucuses at Southwest Community Center was literally down the stairs and out the door:

ADDED 4:43 PM: WSB contributing photojournalist Matt Durham sends these photos from Gatewood Elementary: First, State Sen. Joe McDermott during the pre-caucus sign-in:

You can figure out who Sarah Lehoch and Terrence Veccavo were supporting:

Here, Matt photographed 3-month-old Waverly Davis:

Copies of Matt’s WSB photos and his other work are available at his site, mattdurhamphotography.com. Meantime, we received another photo of a very young caucus attendee — this is Melissa’s 4-month-old:

4:55 PM ADDITION: Lively citywide coverage at Slog, including Eli’s impassioned defense of the joyful messiness of the caucus process. For a sample of other news blogs around the area are reporting on caucuses, check the headline digest at Citizen Rain. More here as info and photos come in. So far, the results reports in the comments thread equal roughly 75% Obama, 25% Clinton. 5:05 PM ADDITION: The state Democratic Party has a results page ready, though it’s all 0’s so far. WA GOP promises results after 6 pm. 5:29 PM ADDITION: State D results are starting to come in: 66% Obama, 32% Clinton with 34% reporting. 5:48 PM ADDITION: The state also has a “jurisdiction-level results” page — scroll down to “King – 34th LD” for West Seattle (and Vashon). Doesn’t say if this is final but our district is listed at 73% Obama, 26% Clinton. 6:19 PM ADDITION: Bill Schrier, 34th DD webmaster, kindly informs us that the 34th has 1038 total delegates, so anything you see isn’t final till it hits that total. 6:30 PM ADDITION: The state Republican site is starting to post results. With 16% in, it’s McCain and Huckabee almost tied, Paul not far behind.

53 Comments

1. Hello,

   Just a quick update. Precinct 1487/Highline Elementary went Obama 3/Clinton 2!

   Comment by Tish — February 9, 08 3:20 pm #

2. Update from Alki 1435 – 4 Obama 1 Hillary. Looks like the whole Alki location had similar results!

   Comment by Cami — February 9, 08 3:40 pm #

3. Three different precincts from West Seattle High:

   Obama 4/Clinton 2 (Precinct 34-1456)
   Obama 4/Clinton 1/Undeclared 1
   Obama 5/Clinton 3

   Don’t know precincts for the last two. I just asked around to see how voting was trending.

   Comment by peterb — February 9, 08 3:40 pm #

4. Update from 1433 – 4 Obama 1 Hillary.

   Comment by stacey — February 9, 08 3:42 pm #

5. Update from 34-1433: Obama 4, Clinton 1

   Comment by Huindekmi — February 9, 08 3:46 pm #

6. from 1519 Denny Middle School 3 Obama, 1 Clinton

   Comment by JoB — February 9, 08 3:47 pm #

7. Cooper Elementary School – 1493 Went 5 Obama to 1 Clinton!

   Comment by bo — February 9, 08 3:49 pm #

8. 1458 at Madison Middle School: 4 Obama, 1 Clinton.

   Comment by LA in the Junction — February 9, 08 3:51 pm #

9. from 34-1517 at Sealth: Obama 3, Clinton 1

   Comment by Mark Ahlness — February 9, 08 3:53 pm #

10. from 1501 at High Point: 4 Obama, 1 Clinton

    …interesting!

    Comment by add — February 9, 08 3:54 pm #

11. 34-1516 at Sealth HS: Obama 3, Clinton 2.

    Comment by jno — February 9, 08 3:54 pm #

12. from 34-1425 at West Seattle High: 3 Obama, 2 Clinton – most other precincts there had higher Obama counts.

    Comment by tippy — February 9, 08 3:58 pm #

13. District 34-1467 at Madison Middle School

    5 Obama
    2 Clinton
    1 Undecided

    Out of a population of around 250 voters in 1467, a little over 130 people showed up! YES WE CAN!!!!

    Comment by WSMom — February 9, 08 4:03 pm #

14. 34-1449 at Madison Middle School

    4 Obama
    1 Clinton

    Is there anywhere to watch the results live?

    Comment by Bree — February 9, 08 4:11 pm #

15. District 34-1258 at Highland Park Elementary
    3 Obama, 2 Clinton.
    The 3 undecideds went to Obama.
    We had one person go from Obama to Clinton.
    There were concerns that Obama wasn’t supportive of gay rights.
    We had at least 3 times more people this year compared to 4 years ago.

    Comment by Moonflower — February 9, 08 4:14 pm #

16. Precinct 1459 Madison Middle School, 3 Obama, 1 Clinton.

    Comment by Skooter — February 9, 08 4:15 pm #

17. 34-1510 at Chief Sealth
    45 participants (12 last presidential caucus)
    3 delegates for Obama (including myself!)
    2 delegaes for Clinton

    Comment by Oliver — February 9, 08 4:16 pm #

18. 34-1461 4 Obama, 2 Clinton

    Comment by meg — February 9, 08 4:17 pm #

19. 34-1471 at highpoint went Obama 5, Clinton 2 We had about 60-70 people

    Comment by Lena — February 9, 08 4:18 pm #

20. 34-1476 @ Madison middle school
    small precinct, only 6 blocks
    34 folks turned out (vs. 6 last time, I am told)

    results:
    3 delegates for Obama
    1 for Clinton

    Comment by Ken S. — February 9, 08 4:21 pm #

21. West Seattle High, not sure what our precinct was(1473 maybe) – Obama 3, Clinton 1.

    Comment by CandrewB — February 9, 08 4:22 pm #

22. 34-1414 West Seattle High 2 Obama, 1 Clinton

    Comment by Amy — February 9, 08 4:26 pm #

23. 1494 at Cooper Elementary School had 157 attendees and went 7 for Obama, 2 for Clinton and 1 uncommitted delegate

    Comment by Pete — February 9, 08 4:36 pm #

24. 1413 at West Seattle HS.

    4 Obama
    2 Clinton

    Comment by Scott J. — February 9, 08 4:38 pm #

25. Admiral precinct 34-1424 @ WS High School

    OBAMA 4
    CLINTON 1

    Comment by Forest — February 9, 08 4:40 pm #

26. 34-1427 went 3 Obama, 1 Clinton.

    Comment by Lee F Thompson — February 9, 08 4:42 pm #

27. 34-1515

    86 people – eight times the norm

    4 Obama
    1 Clinton

    Comment by denny — February 9, 08 4:54 pm #

28. 34-1477
    3 Obama
    2 Clinton

    Just a vote or two shy of going 4-1.

    Comment by Herman — February 9, 08 4:58 pm #

29. Alki – 34-1440: 3 to Obama; 1 to Clinton

    Comment by Alki Resident — February 9, 08 5:01 pm #

30. My precinct
    sea 34 1490 at West Seattle elem. (formerly Highpoint),
    Clinton 2, Obama 4
    82 attendees in the caucus up from 48 in 04 and 8 in 2000.

    across the street
    sea 34 1485 also at Highpoint

    3 obama
    0 Clinton

    (This precinct was torn down (SHA) and empty for the last general election so they only had three delegates this time. However they had 96 people caucus today.) I was told it was unanimous. but I am not sure if that was the results or the sign-in.

    Comment by Ken — February 9, 08 5:09 pm #

31. 1431 from madison middle school
    Obama 4
    Clinton 1

    Comment by c — February 9, 08 5:32 pm #

32. Lena! Want to be a PCO?? I know 1471 did not have one yet. Maybe one of those attending today will want the position

    Comment by Ken — February 9, 08 5:38 pm #

33. From 1460, held at Schmitz Park Elementary: 3 for Obama, 1 for Clinton. We had 8 times more people show up for this caucus than in 2004!

    Comment by kathy — February 9, 08 6:22 pm #

34. msn.com has a headline on its front page: “Obama Wins Neb., Wash.”

    Comment by add — February 9, 08 7:06 pm #

35. Any reports from 1469 at WSHS?

    Comment by Sue — February 9, 08 8:35 pm #

36. Fantastic job everyone. I was so proud to see so many of my neighbors voting alongside me.

    Barack 08!

    Tish

    Comment by Tish — February 9, 08 9:05 pm #

37. 1466 at Madison Middle school went

    2 – Obama
    2 – Clinton

    with 39 attendees (1 undecided at sign in)

    Comment by Michell — February 9, 08 9:18 pm #

38. we are all doomED, DOOMED, DOOOOOMED!!!!

    O-man has the appeal of MLK and Ronald Reagan which is to say even people that don’t like what he says nor what he stands for will vote for him and support him because of how he says it.

    Doomed.

    Comment by oh boy... — February 9, 08 10:09 pm #

39. 34-1507 had 51 attendees at Gatewood Elementary.
    Two years ago there were only 2.

    5 delegates for Obama
    1 delegate for Clinton

    Comment by Stan Hargus — February 10, 08 8:00 am #

40. From Precinct 34-1434 (Alki area) –
    Democracy IS messy (and hot and stuffy). Initial preference was 20 Obama, 9 Clinton, 3 undecided, and nothing changed from there. The main problem was that 4 precincts were all competing in the small school auditorium, which meant TOO MUCH NOISE and no possibility for any reasonable clearly audible discussion and subsequent persuasion. However, the numbers gave 3 delegates to Obama and 1 to Clinton, so there was really nothing that would get changed by further give-and-take. Hey, Democratic Party, there is no reason to have any precinct meeting unless it’s in a DEDICATED room. This was in a school, and a dozen classrooms could have been used so that each precinct could have had a civilized time of it.
    P.S. — The other three precincts had about the same ratio of preferences.

    Comment by bj — February 10, 08 8:40 am #

41. Its sounding more like Clinton’s going to get squashed in November.

    Comment by Jiggers — February 10, 08 8:47 am #

42. 34-1423 results? South Admiral area? Anyone know? I had to work yesterday.

    Comment by gina — February 10, 08 10:37 am #

43. The 34DD’s have promised a precinct by precinct breakout within a few days. We’ll keep watching their site and post here when that’s in.

    Comment by WSB — February 10, 08 10:58 am #

44. Hey BJ – good comment but get more involved next time with the planning– its an all-volunteer deal so lend a hand if you want to see it run better!

    Comment by SK — February 10, 08 11:02 am #

45. Heh – “34th District Democrats” is not the first thing I thought of when I read “34DD’s” – took me a sec to figure out what you were talking about.

    Comment by MargL — February 10, 08 11:41 am #

46. Sunnywood @ the new, spiffy White Center Heights (they have a freaking climbing wall!): 50 attendants, 48 Obama (6 delegates, including me), 2 Clinton (1 delegate).

    Comment by white center resident — February 10, 08 11:41 am #

47. Many of us were involved in the planning (or tried to become involved), and the fact is, the number of attendees was underestimated by far. The speculation was that there might be twice as many people caucusing as last time – in fact, there were three, four, five times as many.

    Comment by acemotel — February 10, 08 1:07 pm #

48. my first caucus an i end up with the opportunity to be a delegate!!! very exciting indeed.

    Comment by s — February 10, 08 1:30 pm #

49. Hey Gina, 34-1423 = Obama 2, Clinton 1, Undecided 1. Turnout was good, and we had some great discussion. Katie (Henry’s mom)

    Comment by Katie — February 10, 08 9:19 pm #

50. I thought things at Alki went very well and I was in the LARGE room. Both sides gave a pitch to the undecideds, things were orderly and well run by our PCO (good job, Gary). Sounded the same in the group next to us as well. Not sure what side of the room you were on, but near the stage, everything was great.

    Comment by Cami — February 11, 08 8:28 am #

51. While I agree that it would have been better to have more locations and rooms, as a note, some of the schools would not allow classrooms to be used. For example, Madison did allow this, but Gatewood did not.

    Comment by Suits are not boring — February 11, 08 9:28 am #

52. 34-0848 had 17 attendees at Gregory Heights (Gregoire Heights? hee hee) Elementary in Burien. 3 delegates for Obama, 2 for Clinton.

    Comment by Eric — February 11, 08 6:02 pm #

53. Obama would probably win Washington, except that the Super Delegates in WA will nominate Clinton. Shame.
    .
    Mark my words.

    Comment by Native — February 12, 08 9:25 pm #

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