As Democrats Abroad goes through its delegate selecting process, I just got an email update on the process and current delegate counts. I think this will help for those folks keeping track of such things.
The email first reported on our Global Primary (including online voting!).
Barack Obama won our worldwide primary, with 65.8% of the vote, followed by Hillary Clinton with 32.5%. Joe Biden received 0.1%; John Edwards 0.7%; Dennis Kucinich 0.6%; Bill Richardson 0.1%; and Uncommitted 0.2%.
This weekend the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) "county" of DA will be selecting its delegates.
Over the weekend, democrats across Europe, Middle East and Africa met in Brussels to select the first of our at-large delegates – 4 Obama delegates and 2 Clinton delegates -- to the Democratic National Convention.
And then...the Americas and Asia-Pacific.
In April, we’ll be meeting in Vancouver, for the Americas Regional Caucus to select 1 Obama delegate and 1 Clinton delegate, and the Asia-Pacific Regional Caucus to select 1 Obama delegate.
Lastly, the global convention.
Following those caucuses, 5 more delegates will be selected for a total of 3 Obama delegates and 2 Clinton Delegates at the Global Convention, along with an alternate for each candidate.
Then the counts...including the super-delegates.
The count so far for Democrats Abroad? Our 22-member delegation will include 9 Obama delegates and 5 Clinton delegates elected at the Regional Caucuses and Global Convention. The remaining 8, our superdelegates, are currently 2 uncommitted, 2 Clinton, and 4 Obama delegates. So – 13 Obama, 7 Clinton, 2 uncommitted – each with a half vote at the Convention.
At half a vote each, that's 6.5 Obama and 3.5 Clinton and 1 uncommitted,
for a total of 11.
Hope that helps...