Well I attended the first caucus of my life tonight to support Howard Dean & vote for delegates here in Ohio. My district is the 15th Congressional district (Rep. Deborah Pryce, 4th Ranking Repug) which is in Central Ohio and is made up of about half of Columbus and some of the outlying counties.
First of all, I could tell immediately that the crowd was going to be large because the lot was full as well as the lot across the street from the union hall where it was held. The room was large enough to accomodate many people comfortably and terrible as I am at estimation, I'll guess there were upwards of 300 people there (hopefully some other attendees have better estimates). Whatever the attendance, the speaker-woman was impressed by the turnout and said that this showed our dedication to defeat GWB.
Now to compare the number supporting each candidate. First, in bumper sticker count, Dean won by a large margin. I saw not quite 10 Dean bumper stickers and 1 Kucinich and maybe a Clark in my very short trip through the lot.
As people went, it was quite clear that Dean won there by a good deal also. Basically there were two halves of the room with an equal number of tables. The first half consisted of all of the Clark, Kerry, Lieberman, Gephardt, and Edwards supporters. The other half was Dean, Kucinich, and like two LaRouche supporters. So that should give you and idea right away that Dean had nearly the number of Clark, Kerry, Lieb, Gep, and Edwards supporters combined.
My best guesses:
Dean: ~115-130
Clark: ~60-75
Gephardt: Couldn't see his people very well but I'd estmate around ~15-30
Kucinich: ~20
Lieberman: ~15
Edwards: Couldn't see his folks. Probably around ~10-20
Kerry: ~10?? I think I must not have seen his people
LaRouche: ~2-3
On a side note: Interestingly, 2000 US Senate candidate Ted Celeste showed up to run as a Dean delegate and I was unaware he had even supported him. Oh well.
Recognized a lot of folks from Meetup and had a good time. And it was much, much simpler than folks made it sound.