“In the end, excitement over the races prevailed over the weather with more than 40,000 votes, far surpassing the old record of 17,000 set in 2004 when John Kerry and Howard Dean were vying for the party’s nomination, party executive director Arden Manning said.”
“Wasilla is about 40 miles north of Anchorage, which had its own overflow problems. Police threatened to tow cars from Begich Middle School, the caucus site for the state’s largest city.
More than 4,000 voters showed up, easily beating the record of 254 set in the 2004 caucus, said Alaska Democratic Party Chairwoman Patti Higgins.”
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/ap_alaska/story/306364.html
You are using delegate totals instead of votes. Caucuses don’t always have vote totals, because the point is to elect delegates to the state convention. Once the delegates have been selected, they are reported as the final numbers. I believe that Alaska had over 6,000 voters, and Maine had 40,000. Both were record setting numbers, and both states had bad weather for the primaries.
Maine: Saturday was a sunny day for the H and O Speeches at the University/College locations. Foot traffic was heavy. Couple Thousand could not get into the Obama speech.
Sunday was not a good day to travel. Absentee vote available. Repubs don’t have polling places, least of all I never saw them and are less organized if you have never been, so most do not go or even know about it.
We are talking about 16 delegates and 24 delegates here, that’s all. It is not a primary.
You are probably right as I have never lived in a caucus state. So I guess it is definite that we don’t know the total numbers of voters in each caucus.
I can say I learned something tonight. Thanks.