3,210,721 registered voters in Washington

[Mass_Liberal]

they call it based on 7754 votes. They call it before Seattle, the numbers are all over the place. WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING?????

[Mass_Liberal]

1. kick for an

angry David.

[bigwillq]

2. The media is declaring the champion before the game is settled

There's still 90% of delegates left and they have Kerry already in the king's seat.
Go Dean

[Mass_Liberal]

3. so what do you think will

happen?

[bigwillq]

8. It looks like the media, et. al has already penned in Kerry as the

nominee but there's still so many states to go. The media could pull a 190 and tear down Kerry like they did to Dean. Until the last votes are counted I still think it's anyone's game. I know I am still voting for Dean in my primary on super tuesday and I'm still trying to convince all my friends and family to vote Dean

[Endangered Specie]

4. I believe Wash. is a caucus, the vote count in a caucus is always muc less

There is also the matter of exit polls and such.

[Mass_Liberal]

5. they say there are no

exit polls available.

[joshcryer]

6. They are delegates, not actual votes.

CNN and AP are just reporting it wrong. CNN fixed it but AP is still calling them 'votes.' (Technically they are votes, but they are delegate votes.)

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

7. Roughly half of those are Puggies.

No Seattle.

My much smaller county had several precincts represented at caucus. Seattle is about 25-30% of the state and will be the last to come in. Word on the street is that Seattle went 2-1 for Dean.

We'll see.

[cmf]

9. They are delagates, not votes!

Those numbers are the delegates going to the county conventions, not the number of votes. They're just labeling it wrong, thats why it seems so low. The actual number of votes are much higher.

[Mass_Liberal]

10. but they still haven't reported

heavily populated areas. And yet they call it already?

[ConsAreLiars]

11. the total number of delegates will be 16415

http://www.wa-democrats.org/del_guide.doc

The number of people going to precinct caucuses was several times that. (If 100,000 show up each delegate would have an average of 6 caucus attendees represented by each delegate going to the next level of the selection process.)

(edit, number mis-typed)

[babzilla]

12. It doesn't matter what they call

the delegates are already decided. It is only a matter of counting.

The total number of delegates is actually 26,961.