# Texas Barack Obama voters: Please Read **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 22, 2008, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-barack-obama-voters-please-read/438683 "2008-02-22T03:45:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-barack-obama-voters-please-read/438683/21 "2008-02-27T18:51:51Z")
[QUOTE=dalej42] Can you leave after the presidential preference is over? All I want is to give my support to Obama and then go home. [/QUOTE] I was hoping someone else would ask this question. 😃 I’m not a Democrat, so I’m not going to be too keen on sitting around debatin’ for three hours. I just want to support Senator Obama then make like a tree and get out of there. ---
**Author:** ![Hugh\_Jass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@Hugh\_Jass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hugh_Jass)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-barack-obama-voters-please-read/438683/22 "2008-02-27T19:06:18Z")
The Obama campaign is telling us that you have to go and sign your name and then you are okay to leave. I am certain they wouldn’t have us tell people this if it wasn’t all that was required. Be careful who you ask this question of, however. I went to a “open house” party on Saturday and someone asked this question. A woman who was clearly a political junkie launched into this long speech about subcaucus’s and debates, and how the whole thing would last only “about an hour and a half.” I could see the questioner’s face go blank. [Here](http://www.texansforobama.com/texas2step/) is the info directly from the Texas for OBama website. Wow. I’m glad I started this thread. And bumped it. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-barack-obama-voters-please-read/438683/23 "2008-02-27T19:19:33Z")
[QUOTE=Hugh Jass] The Obama campaign is telling us that you have to go and sign your name and then you are okay to leave. I am certain they wouldn’t have us tell people this if it wasn’t all that was required. [/QUOTE] True. The full quote from the linked page is: > [@](#): > > You really only need to be there to sign in and to write ‘Obama’ as your presidential preference. You can leave right after that, **but you are highly encouraged to stick around for the delegate selection stage to make sure no earned delegates slots go unfilled.** This selection stage follows immediately after the sign-in stage closes. (bolding mine) So yeah, you can leave, but you don’t want Obama’s delegate slots to go unfilled. If the caucus is well-attended, you probably don’t need to worry. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-barack-obama-voters-please-read/438683/24 "2008-02-27T20:55:54Z")
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**Author:** ![Hugh\_Jass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@Hugh\_Jass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hugh_Jass)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2008, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-barack-obama-voters-please-read/438683/25 "2008-03-04T03:51:50Z")
Just a final bump. If you are in precinct 248, come out and say hello to me. I’m the guy who looks like Jerry Garcia, out in front of Burnet Middle School. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-barack-obama-voters-please-read/438683.md?page=1)