Opinion: Obama, Clinton are full of caucus

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Don’t be mad. I told you last week that you Democrats could go to Denver and be delegates to the convention August 25-29, if only you get yourselves elected at caucuses this Sunday afternoon. But Hillary and Barack had other ideas. Both of them scoured -- and slashed -- their lists of people who signed up by the April 2 deadline to be considered in Sunday’s voting. The Sacramento Bee has the story. No, wait!! Obama relented!! An update from the Bee.

Obama apparently cut more names than Clinton. If you signed up to be with one of them, and your candidate didn’t break your heart by cutting you from the list, you still have a shot; get your friends and family to go one of the two polling places in your congressional district (one for Obama, one for Clinton), and vote for you. The Democratic Powers That Be assure me you can just vote and leave; you don’t have to stick around for the speeches. But heck, that’s half the fun.

Good luck. And remember, you have to pay for your own flight to Denver.

For California Republicans, the work is done until September. Names were submitted in advance of the Feb. 5 primary and distributed based on the vote. The Mitt Romney delegates were released after their candidate dropped out, and now all California Republican delegates are pledged to John McCain at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis Sept. 1-4. If you were selected, you already know to check in periodically here. You can be an armchair delegate by signing up here.