{"id":1982,"date":"2008-03-04T21:43:39","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T03:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2008\/03\/04\/caucus-chaos\/"},"modified":"2008-03-04T21:43:39","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T03:43:39","slug":"caucus-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/caucus-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Caucus Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thechunk\/2311821384\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Chaos!\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3143\/2311821384_26453c8f37.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" width=\"500\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The cutoff time was supposed to be 7:15. I got there at 7:00. There were 100-200 people standing outside waiting for the last voters to finish. It wasn&#8217;t very organized. We stood waiting until 8:15 and they were just beginning to allow people in to sign their names for their candidate. My third grader has a TAKS test in the morning, so we bailed at 8:30 without having voted in the caucus. It would&#8217;ve been nice if the Obama precinct workers who I saw at 7:20am and were still there at 8:00pm would&#8217;ve&nbsp;come up with a plan to organize the lines of Clinton and Obama supporters. They must&#8217;ve had the time. The Obama supporters appeared to outnumber the Clinton supporters 3:1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cutoff time was supposed to be 7:15. I got there at 7:00. There were 100-200 people standing outside waiting for the last voters to finish. It wasn&#8217;t very organized. We stood waiting until 8:15 and they were just beginning to allow people in to sign their names for their candidate. My third grader has <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/caucus-chaos\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-vY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}