Post by pavel on Mar 1, 2016 1:56:12 GMT -6
Super Tuesday In American Samoa Is A Bigger Deal Than The General Election. Here's Why.
Though the American flag has waved over Pago Pago harbor since 1900, American Samoa, a cluster of islands near Australia and home to about 55,000 people, is the only U.S. territory where citizenship isn't inherited at birth. American Samoans cannot run for president or vote in the general presidential election, but they can take part in presidential primaries. Still, American Samoans will be participating in the Democratic Caucus on March 1, even if their voice will be more of a whisper than a roar in the Super Tuesday race between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
According to Sarah Rosier, federal desk editor at Ballotpedia, an online encyclopedia of U.S. politics and elections, American Samoans get 11 delegates, plus one alternate. American Samoa's governor, Lolo Letalu Matalasi Moliga, and four Democratic National Committee members are among them. The other delegates will be determined during the territory's two-hour caucus period—the last one to take place on Super Tuesday. American Samoa's location puts the islands three hours behind California and one hour behind Hawaii, placing them in the latest time zone for Super Tuesday. The American Samoa Democratic Party did not respond to Bustle's questions by the time of publication.
American Samoa's 11 delegates are completely dwarfed by the amount allocated to other Super Tuesday states, which will have anywhere from 26 to 252 Democratic delegates.
“In 2008, [the American Samoan caucus] was one of the only caucuses to go for Hillary,” Rosier says, though the voting cohort was so small that a little over 40 votes made a big difference. “There were 163 votes for Clinton and 121 votes for Obama. So with about 300 people voting, that's pretty small.” In fact, it is so small that there is only one caucus site. This year, the caucus will take place at the Tradewinds Hotel in Ottoville.
Read more: www.bustle.com/articles/143929-super-tuesday-in-american-samoa-is-a-bigger-deal-than-the-general-election-heres-why
Though the American flag has waved over Pago Pago harbor since 1900, American Samoa, a cluster of islands near Australia and home to about 55,000 people, is the only U.S. territory where citizenship isn't inherited at birth. American Samoans cannot run for president or vote in the general presidential election, but they can take part in presidential primaries. Still, American Samoans will be participating in the Democratic Caucus on March 1, even if their voice will be more of a whisper than a roar in the Super Tuesday race between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
According to Sarah Rosier, federal desk editor at Ballotpedia, an online encyclopedia of U.S. politics and elections, American Samoans get 11 delegates, plus one alternate. American Samoa's governor, Lolo Letalu Matalasi Moliga, and four Democratic National Committee members are among them. The other delegates will be determined during the territory's two-hour caucus period—the last one to take place on Super Tuesday. American Samoa's location puts the islands three hours behind California and one hour behind Hawaii, placing them in the latest time zone for Super Tuesday. The American Samoa Democratic Party did not respond to Bustle's questions by the time of publication.
American Samoa's 11 delegates are completely dwarfed by the amount allocated to other Super Tuesday states, which will have anywhere from 26 to 252 Democratic delegates.
“In 2008, [the American Samoan caucus] was one of the only caucuses to go for Hillary,” Rosier says, though the voting cohort was so small that a little over 40 votes made a big difference. “There were 163 votes for Clinton and 121 votes for Obama. So with about 300 people voting, that's pretty small.” In fact, it is so small that there is only one caucus site. This year, the caucus will take place at the Tradewinds Hotel in Ottoville.
Read more: www.bustle.com/articles/143929-super-tuesday-in-american-samoa-is-a-bigger-deal-than-the-general-election-heres-why