For Nebraskan supporters. (After you caucus you might want to know what happened in your state)

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Here's some links:

he decision to have only one caucus site in all of Sarpy County appears to have been a bad one.

Reports are coming in that the caucus site in Papillion is overhwhelmed.

Thousands have turned up, when organized expected only several hundred.

They are still registering.

Traffic is backed up on Highway 370.

"All of Sarpy County is at this school and they've run out of registration forms," said Cindy Perich, of Papillion.

She had taken today off to caucus on behalf of Barack Obama. But, she left. It was too chaotic.

"It's totally unorganized. I'm totally disappointed with the (Nebraska) Democratic Party," said Perich.


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Live updates from the Nebraska Democratic caucuses
BY ROBYNN TYSVER
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER



11:42 a.m.

It doesn't look good for Clinton at Monroe Middle School.

The line to the Clinton box is empty. The line to vote for Obama is about a half block long.

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11:39 a.m.

Order is finally being restored at Monroe Middle School.

High spirits reigned throughout much of the chaos but some people were obviously angry.

"This is ridiculous. I'm never doing this again," said Bruce Lovejoy, 54, a Clinton supporter.

"I've seen walkathons organized better than this," said Dan Brick, 50.

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11:30 a.m.

Overrun by crowds, caucus organizers at Monroe Middle School declared a state of emergency.

All attempts at traditional caucusing have been suspended.

People are now being asked to simple drop a blue piece of paper with their choice in a box.

And it doesn't look good for Hillary Clinton. People have to wait to drop into Barack Obama's box. The Clinton line is much shorter.

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11:17 a.m.

At Metro in Elkhorn, "Plan B" was scrapped.

An overflow room also became overran. Caucus leaders in Elkhorn are now allowing people to vote by a blue slip.

At Monroe Middle School, people are now being asked to go into the parking lot.

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10:42 a.m.

Finallly, the line is shortening at Monroe Middle School.

About 50 people are left to register an then it's on to the parking lot to caucus.

The plan is to form three long lines outside. Despite the chaos, people are still in good spirits.

"How can you complain when others don't have this privelege?" said Win Wadginski, who stood in lone for an hour with a 2-year-old.

"It's rough, but it's just the first time. It's to be expected," said Gretchen Filip, 20, a student at UNO.

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10:27 a.m.

Caucus sites are being overwhelmed across Omaha.

Thousands upon thousands have shown up, eager to take part in this historic vote.

At the Elkhorn campus of Metro Community College Campus, the lines are wrapped around the building.

Confusion reigns. Some are worried they're not going to be able to caucus.

No one knows how the counting can be done amid the cacaphony.

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2835&u_sid=10254218

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My precinct, #2, at North High School, was declared as a state of emergency. They expected 300 - 500 people to show up and instead over 1400 showed up.

They filled the high school's auditorium and the cafeteria.

Final count:

Omaba: 1378
Clinton: 26

She didn't get 15% of the vote, so all the delegates went to Obama.

So far so good in NE.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/Cyk9#comments
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4501383&mesg_id=4501383 (pictures on this thread!)

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1. A Diary from Omaha at Kos

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/9/124350/3207/224/453352

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2. I just posted my Nebraska caucus experience

We had probably about 1400 people at our location. But no chaos, and we were out of there by 11:15 (1 hour and 15 minutes after the start). Everything was very well organized and the volunteers seemed to know exactly what they were doing. I was VERY impressed.

As I was leaving, I thanked one of the volunteers, who was soliciting donations because they'd paid for this out of their own pockets. She said one woman had said it was a horrible experience and badly done. I wonder if she was a disgruntled Clinton supporter??? I don't know why else she would think it had gone badly.

Here it was everyone's first caucus experience, and the turn-out was HUGE, and yet our volunteers--both the campaigns as well as the party volunteers--were all absolutely terrific and as well prepared as could be expected. I was extremely impressed and proud of them. We all did GREAT!