Obama wins Guam by 7 votes
The final tally in the Guam caucuses: Obama 2,264, Clinton 2,257. Heh!
That's 50.08% to 49.92%, if you were wondering. Not quite Florida-close -- indeed, an order of magnitude less close, as that race was decided by 0.009%, rather than 0.155% -- but still: seven votes. Wow.
According to Politico, Clinton and Obama will each get four pledged delegates, each of whom has a "half-vote" at the convention, so the tally is 2-2. But Obama's seven-vote victory in the popular vote apparently nets him a superdelegate:
The ticket of Pilar Lujan and Jaime Paulino won the race for Party Chairman and Vice Chairman -- both superdelegate positions. Paulino is an Obama supporter, and Lujan has indicated she'll back the caucus winner.
Presumably that means she'll vote for Obama, despite his extremely narrow margin of victory. And I believe the Guam supers get full votes, rather than half-votes... so, counting superdelegates, Obama earns a net gain of 2 delegates (4 to 2). Three other Guam supers are, I think, still undeclared.
UPDATE: According to the Jed Report, one of the other three Guam supers is for Clinton, one is undeclared, and one hasn't been selected yet.


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