Obama wins 75 percent of delegates at county caucus

Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, won 3 out of the 4 delegates at Tuesday's Super Tuesday Democractic caucus that Elmore County will send to the state convention.

More than 200 people showed up at the Mountain Home Senior Center to take part in the caucus.

When the 217 voters were counted in the final round of selecting the county delegates, 165 votes went to Barack Obama (earning 3 delegates and 6 alternates for the state convention), 38 votes went to Hillary Clinton (earning 1 delegate and 2 alternates for the state convention), 6 votes were case for John Edwards and 8 votes for uncommitted (those numbers too low to earn a delegate).

"I am very pleased with the turnout. We had a good event," said Elmore County Democratic Chairman Mike Crawford. "I'm very excited about the oncoming campaign,"

At the state convention in Boise, June 12-15, the delegates from counties around the state will choose 23 delegates to the national Democratic Party convention in Denver during the month of August. Eighteen of those delegates will be selected by representatives of the county caucuses and five will be "super delegates" that are not required to be pledge to a candidate. One super delegate will be chosen by the convention and four will come from top Democratic Party officials in Idaho.