1.   A majority of the delegates were selected at local caucuses last February.

2.   But Bolin carries the torch nevertheless and plans to speak out for him at her local caucus Monday night.

3.   Iowa is scheduled to host the first voting - in local caucuses - in the presidential contest next February.

4.   Lo had enough support to be elected at a January local party caucus as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

5.   Riordan has proposed creation of a system of advisory neighborhood councils, selected at local caucuses, with some power over a portion of the city budget.

6.   The local caucus is the first in a three-step process to select delegates to the national GOP convention in San Diego this August.

7.   To become a delegate, Florida Republicans had to attend local county caucuses, and most were picked at random.

8.   Results were still out in the state of Washington, where they held local nominating caucuses.