The 2008 presidential field at-a-glance

[honeychile]

My private fantasy: that at least two people from Greek Chat run for Delegate to their party's Convention - preferably one from each party. I'd love to hear the "insiders' reports"!

[Thetagirl218]

Originally Posted by honeychile

My private fantasy: that at least two people from Greek Chat run for Delegate to their party's Convention - preferably one from each party. I'd love to hear the "insiders' reports"!

Seriously, how do you become a delegate?

[PeppyGPhiB]

Originally Posted by Thetagirl218

Seriously, how do you become a delegate?

My best friend made it all the way to our state convention as a delegate in 2004, and though she totally volunteered to do it, she said it was VERY boring. A lot of speeches, rules and voting and it took several hours. She said she'd never do it again.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by Thetagirl218

Seriously, how do you become a delegate?

I'd start out by calling your county's Democratic or Republican Committee - they'll tell you exactly what you need to do. I was just able to vote when I ran, and I'm not sure how it works now. I know that I had to get a petition signed by 250 people, and filed with the County Elections Department. Then you run on the primary ballot. At that time, if a woman got the most votes (me), then the man with the most amount of votes got the next delegate position, then the woman with the second-most number of votes, then the man with the second-most number of votes, etc. I don't know if it's still done that way or not. We had a meeting of about 10 delegations or basically 4-5 congressional districts, then a state one, then one in DC. Being so young, I had no big say in anything in those meetings, but when we finally got to the Convention, suddenly there were a lot of news crews asking my opinion about various topics, as I supposedly represented "the youth vote".

As for boring, there are also alternate delegates and you can run as an alternate. If you think the topics at a given time aren't your thing, you can always have an alternate take your place, while you do something else.