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Local Democrats excited about caucus
Before caucuses in North Carolina and Indiana, the push for the Democratic nomination makes landfall here on Guam on Saturday. Up for grabs are a total of eight delegate seats, which count as a half-vote in the final tally, and five superdelegate seats, which count as one vote each, for a total of nine to be cast in August's Democrat National Convention in Denver, Colorado. It's a close race between these two Democrat powerhouse candidates, in which each delegate, superdelegate in the remaining contests could make the difference in who will garner the nomination.
Supporters of senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are expecting a large turnout during tomorrow's historic Democrat caucus. Former Guam governor Carl Gutierrez is throwing his support behind Obama, telling KUAM News two weeks ago, "When you look at who's running, now there's an opportunity to be able to find that one person inherently having that feeling of empathy for the plight of the people of Guam. That's Barack Obama. If it was only Hillary Clinton running now against anybody else that doesn't have that empathy, we would stay with Hillary Clinton, but I believe the people of Guam have the great opportunity to find someone who has life experiences that pretty much matches the people of Guam. He's probably the last great hope of Guam getting what they have been looking for over the last 100 years."
While Gutierrez is supporting Obama, other Democrats are firmly behind Senator Clinton as fellow female senator Tina Rose Muna-Barnes says they are working hard to drum up the support necessary to get Hillary the win. "One of the real deep grassroots things that some of our candidates are doing is literally picking up the phones, calling family and friends, telling them to please make it a point to come out tomorrow," she explained.
While Senator Muna-Barnes is canvassing for Hillary, she believes that both candidates are good choices, adding that she feels in the end it will be an extremely close race. "The climate out there is if you had to choose this morning at Southern High School it was Obama, if you had to do it the day before, if you had the polls, then it would've been Clinton. This race is tight and our people will be able to make that difference, so again, I'm asking them to come out and make that change and vote tomorrow and vote for the candidate they think will be done and I'm supporting Hillary," she said.
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