I am attending the Travis County Nomination Convention this morning. It is expected to be the largest convention of its type in Texas. It covers two State Senate districts and more than 12,000 elected delegates are expected to register betweeen 7AM and 10AM CDT. There are expected to be over a thousand alternates, although since all the alternates in my district have to go to work, either number might be a bit of a misnomer.

I will try to Twitter updates at http://twitter.com/pmcg

I am an elected delegate from Precinct 109. My precinct will elect 1 delegate to the State Convention and 1 Alternate (low by most precincts’ standards, some have up to 10).

I intend to photograph the proceedings in the Travis County Exposition Center.

If the cell network survives, I will upload pictures at http://gallery.mac.com/pmcgrane#100116.

The county conventions are a, let’s be frank, ridiculous process where those elected by their neighbors elect other more popular neighbors to go to the State Convention in June.

This said, the narrative could be that Obama gains delegates beyond what he got on March 4th. This seems likely since the rules of attendance are bizarre and interesting.

This is regarding Politics.
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