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1. pledge of allegiance
2. choose the convener for the caucus who leads the show
3 choose a secretary for the caucus who records the show
4. our caucus had 4 precincts meeting
5. each precinct chooses a chairman, an assistant chairman and a secretary.
6. each candidates pitch letter is read by anyone who volunteers for that specific candidate. (sometimes there is some armtwisting involved so all letters are read)
7. discussion
8. beauty contest vote
9. count the votes and announce the results
10. take a break have some coffee or juice and cookies (this is where those who don't understand the process go home.)
11. sit down and decide who will be the delegates.
12. if there are a lot of people each person who wants to be a delegate has to sign up.
13. a list of delegate candidates is posted and depending on how many delegate seats (x) there are, each person chooses from the list of names and writes (x) names.
14. these lists are tallied and the top (x) names are the delegates (so you have to know who are the people who are for your candidate to choose the right names.)
15. do it over again to choose the alternates.
16. these people go to the county caucus in March


17. at the county level do it all over again and cut the number of delegates down that go to the congressional district conventions which choose 3 delegates for each district to go to the state convention.

An email sent to me about Minnesota delegates:
There has been a tremendous amount of misinformation in the mainstream media the last few days about Minnesota's delegates to the Republican National Convention. For instance, most media websites are reporting varied numbers of pledged delegates that were awarded Tuesday. Those figures range from the CNN count that gave 6 delegates to Santorum, 4 to Ron Paul, 2 to Romney, and 1 to Gingrich, to a Fox News article that said Santorum won 37 out of 40 delegates in Minnesota (tinyurl.com/7t6th9r).

Simply put, both of those counts are absolutely and totally false. The fact is that only 3 of Minnesota's 40 delegates have been identified and none of our delegates are pledged to any particular candidate.

To set the record straight, I would like to take a moment to explain how Minnesota selects delegates to the Republican National Convention. Minnesota's delegates include three party leaders (our two RNC members -- Jeff Johnson and Pat Anderson -- and our state party chair -- Pat Shortridge). Next, each of Minnesota's eight congressional districts selects three delegates (totaling 24 delegates) at their respective congressional district conventions. Finally, 13 delegates will be selected by a vote at the state party convention in May.

In total, Minnesota will send 40 delegates to the RNC convention. Importantly, however, none of these delegates are bound by the results of the straw poll last Tuesday. Therefore, any report you see that lists pledged delegates that may have been won out of Minnesota is absolutely wrong. What's more, several other states that have taken non-binding may also be incorrect. An accurate delegate count may be found at: tinyurl.com/7gsw6x3.

I hope this has corrected any misinformation you may have seen elsewhere.