How is it that with 50% reporting there are only about 5,000 votes

[Mass_Liberal]

what the hell? Can anyone explain this to me? Was turnout that bad?

[Paulie]

1. Rural vs. City

The bigger the precinct, the longer the wait on returns.

[Mass_Liberal]

4. so does that mean that

numbers so far are fairly insignificant?

[ozone_man]

14. I would say yes.

Seattle, Tacoma, and Vancouver will be the lion share of votes. I heard Dean took Seattle 2:1, even in Tacoma, and lost Vancouver to Kerry. It should be close Dean/Kerry with DK third.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

17. 2:1 for Dean in Seattle, close everywhere else would give it to

Dean.

That Seattle edge would be something like 20,000 to 10,000.

[joshcryer]

15. Quite so, which is why I find Yahoo!'s Kerry headline pathetic.

They have a headline "Kerry takes demanding lead in WA."

SUCH CRAP, it hasn't even BEGUN yet and Dean seems to be moving forward with the votes, not Kerry.

[MAlibdem]

19. WRONG

The "votes" are state delegates.

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/primaries/pages/states/WA/

RACE STATUS CANDIDATE ST.DEL* % DEL PRECINCTS LOCAL EXIT POLL
Washington
updated: 6:33 p.m.,
February 7
Kerry 3,876 48% 0 55% reporting not available not available
Dean 2,449 30% 0
Kucinich 617 8% 0
Edwards 515 6% 0
Clark 288 4% 0
Sharpton 9 0% 0

[joshcryer]

20. It did not say ST. DEL* before, FYI.

It said VOTES.

[MAlibdem]

22. peace

however, conjecture presented as fact (rural vs city crap and writing results thus far as insignificant), is dishonest and misleading (oh, and probably wrong)

[lancdem]

2. That is confusing

Others were saying the turnout was a record. :shrug:

[flamingyouth]

6. The turnout was huge

3-4 times normal. My precinct had to meet in the hall.

[flamingyouth]

3. Because it's a caucus not a primary

Each precinct has between 4-8 delegates or so. For example, my precinct had eight delegates representing 72 people.

[aquart]

9. 72 people? Please say that's a typo.

[flamingyouth]

12. Those were just the people who were there or who voted in...

absentia with an affadavit. There are lots more people actually *living* in this precinct.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

18. 9 delgates in my precinct.

HD 3
DK 2
WC 2
JE 1
JK 1

[aquart]

5. Polls closed when?

[flamingyouth]

7. Caucus went from 10 am to noon PST n/t

[SadEagle]

8. My guess: these are delegates, not votes.

[bornskeptic]

10. They're reporting delegates to the county conventions.

I don't think they even keep track of individual votes. My precinct had 10 people, and we got 2 delegates.

[Jax]

11. My precint had 10 people as well

We got 4 delegates.

Jax

[rucky]

16. A DUer from Queen Anne said there were 600 voters at her site

Seattle hasn't been reported yet. There's your discrepancy.

[I Hate Republicans]

13. It says votes, not delegates...

Something's up...

[joshcryer]

21. They changed it now.

CNN and AP also seem to be on track with each other as far as numbers go. AP was behind CNN it seems.