You may recall that I attended my precinct caucus after the March 4 Texas primary and was sent as a delegate to our county convention. Our precinct selected 6 delegates – 5 for Clinton and 1 for Obama – to the county convention.

Saturday morning I drove down to the county courthouse and participated in the second stage of the process. Our precinct delegation was grouped with delegates from 5 other precincts to make a mini-caucus to select one delegate to the state convention. Remember that at this point you are voting for a delegate to represent you, not for a presidential candidate. And quite a few people who have come this far in the process would like to be a delegate, myself included. Also the person who comes in second gets to go as the alternate. So its theoretically possible for a person who is in the minority to wind up as one of the top two vote-getters. Our group was 16 to 2 in favor of Clinton though, so I knew right away that no amount of politickin’ or strategizin’ was going to overcome those odds.

There were 7 other little mini-caucuses like ours that chose…