Official Precinct Chair for Precinct 1 in (small rural county) Texas reporting in!
That was fun! I went to my precinct caucus. 52 people showed up. Considering that total voter turnout was about 250, that's pretty good, I'd say. No one really knew what was going on, so my prior review of the rules (and a copy in my hand) turned out to be pretty helpful. The poll workers were anxious to leave, so they opened the meeting and called for the election of a chair and left.
I was nominated to be chair (probably because I kept telling everyone what the rules are, but also, quite a few people there knew me). The meeting went very smoothly. We had 7 delegates to the county convention, and after the math was done, 5 went to Obama and 2 to Clinton. I'll now be joining the other Obama delegates at the county convention in a few weeks.
I took all our paperwork down to the designated location to meet the county party rep and turn them in. He was on his cell phone trying to explain the math to other precincts. Yeah, math can be hard.
Interestingly, while I was waiting to talk to him, a gentleman was explaining the problem they had at their precinct caucus. It seems that someone (probably the poll workers) told people as they signed in for the caucus that they didn't have to stay (which is technically true). So about 200 people signed in for the caucus and left, so there was no one there to actually elect delegates. I'm pretty sure this occurred in the most predominatly black part of town, as the man said that just about everyone who signed in selected Obama. Fortunately, the party rep seemed to have a solution to the problem, as he immediately started telling the man what they would do. I couldn't stay around to hear the solution, but I'm assuming they would be calling people who signed in to ask if they'd like to be a delegate. Usually almost no one shows up for these caucuses so I'm sure they have a procedure for filling the delegate slate when that occurs.
Anyway, it was lots of fun being involved in true "grass roots" politics. I'll try to report in after the County convention in 3 weeks. Maybe I'll even get to go to the state convention.
UPDATE: Wow, the rec list! Maybe for 5 minutes. :) Thanks, y'all!